Controllers and Music services

I am using latest version of S2 app for iOS. I am using local music stored on a NAS drive. Each music file has embedded artwork. Every time I put the S2 app in the background (i.e., switch to another app) and then switch back to S2, all the album artwork disappears, and then reloads … very slowly. It takes a couple of minutes to reload artwork for 26 albums. Does anybody know what is going on here and why? 

I have a Sonos Amp driving my home theater along with a few different Sonos speakers throughout the house. When I play music, they’re all grouped together and sound amazing. When I’m watching TV, the other speakers need to be turned down or muted or it creates a pretty bizarre echo as the dialog is slightly out of sync. Every time I sit down to watch TV I’m in the Sonos app muting other speakers.Ungroup on Autoplay - this feature is ALMOST perfect. What I’d rather have is “mute other speakers on autoplay” so I don’t have to re-group things when it’s time to play music. Re-grouping takes a lot longer and requires a phone compared to setting volume quickly by tapping the speaker or using voice control.In fact, my perfect feature request is to remember volume levels for each source.Source switches to TV: 25% volume on Amp, 5% volume on all other speakers. Source switches to Spotify: 25% volume on all speakers.I manually do the two bullets above several times each day.Anyway, keep on keepi

Hi wondering if you can help.  I have a Sky Q remote and has always worked the Playbar  but tonight something strange has happened.  the remote works the volume but only 2-3ft away but any further away it doesn’t respond.  the control is not faulty and works perfectly for every feature it’s programmed for so my fault finding is pointing to the bar, has anyone had the fault before or know or a fix?  I’ve power cycled the unit but doesn’t make any difference, I’ve also turned the IR off and on through the app.  please help  cheers 

When I do a song search while on the Sonos app with Spotify,  I will get only a few results and most of the time not the song I am looking for. When I do the same search directly on the Spotify app, I always get many more options and actually will find the exact song.  This is the reason I am saying Sonos App SUCKS.  After paying big price for the Sonos device, in my mind, this situation should not be happening.  (And please do not respond you need to subscribe to Sonos Radio...)

We would like to link a security camera to hardwired Sonos speakers. So an alarm can sound through the Sonos speakers when motion is detected through the security camera. Most of the house, including security, is controled via a Control 4 app. Could you please engineer the software to allow for such a scenario to be programmed?

Used to love my Sonos System. “Software Upgrades” has now brought me to despair.Only HP can do worse with flood ware. The processor capacity of my original products used to be fine. Now has useless Airplay (I have absolutely no desire for any Apple product) been forced upon my Sonos stuff. It has all been allocated as none worthy of support, by being grouped in S1. I have no desire to talk to or have conversations with the stuff that plays my radio and Tidal. Upon an “upgrade” did I end up with two Android Tablets and two pc CR 200 - no longer worthy of Sonos use!!!The time that I have wasted on getting my two CR200 to reconnect, exceeds by far the time that it took me to build a Rasberry Pie Player that handles 24bit at a far better sound quality. Rasberry players can be set up as syncronized multi room players as well.Please bring some confidence back in my investment in 10 Sonos units.Easter greetings to my fellow S1 Sonos owners from-Hoeg.

Hello everyone!    I couldn't find any new topics on the fact that extra channels do not show up in the Sonos Sirius XM integration. I find it very odd that the app on my phone allows me to cast to Google but not to Sonos. Spotify allows me to cast to Sonos. Are they still adding people to the list for this I'm not sure why an integrator is large as Sonos can't get the extra channels added even though they don't have numbers you would think it's pretty easy to do so. If anybody's got a hack let me know I appreciate it.

Hi,How do I update my first and last name on my account?Thanks.

I am using Amazon Music HD with Sonos S2 and can’t for the life of me figure out how to play a “Station” by an artist. I am looking to pick a band and then have the “Station” play back that artist and a collection of music from similar artists. I have Spotify premium and there is always a choice in S2 for playing a Station when you search for the artist. Is there something I am missing?? I can play stations from artists by doing it through the Amazon Music HD app and using Airplay, but I want to do it natively in the Sonos app….

The new update of the Sonos S1 app keeps nagging me to upgrade to S2 which I can’t do as it breaks my investiment into the Sonos infrastructure Play 5 Gen 1 etc. Can I turn this off? It’s constant nagging irritates the hell out of me and is starting to put me off using my Sonos products. Certainly will stop me buying more….. 

I tuned in to SomaFM’s Groove Salad streaming channel this morning for the first time in a while and a lengthy ad played through my Sonos system before the music started, mid-song. It wasn’t an ad from SomaFM, they’re an ad-free listener-supported service. I donate to them periodically. Sonos apparently wants money for connecting me to freely available content I’m already paying SomaFM for (through donations), which is infuriating.I switched my connection to SomaFM to go through “Sonos Radio”, back when Sonos introduced their Radio service, because that way I at least got (a single) cover art image for the station, rather than a generic gray square. Previously, I had set up streaming to several of SomaFM’s channels through the Sonos app on my Mac (because Sonos doesn’t allow this functionality on iOS for some reason), by adding the URLs directly. Except, they end up as TuneIn “stations” rather than direct URLs. This is also infuriating - is Sonos really not capable of storing a URL on

My dad has had a sonos system for many years, but his CR200 controller has stopped connecting. It asks him to press buttons on a sonos device to connect, but the CR200 then doesn’t find any devices.He has 3 speakers set up in his bedroom that connect wirelessly to a sonos bridge. The bridge is connected to the router via wired connection.He’s stumped as to why it won’t connect so asked me for help. From what I’ve read online it could be to do with whether the system is using sonosnet or not and needs one component to be wired to the internet. As the bridge is already wired, this doesn’t seem like it’s the problem. On the sonos app on his phone in settings it says sonosnet using channel 6, so I presume this is active as well.If there’s any solution to get it connected, would really appreciate it!

Looking for Italian background music for a dinner party and cannot find any option in World Music/etc.

I’ve got 2 Play 1’s as surrounds with Arc . Will they play high res audio when I output full Music playback?Thanks

Connection Phantom Gold Devialet to a Sonos System with Sonos Port : How to Manage the Delay ?Hello I have a sonos system with One sonos Move, 3 Sonos SL, 1 Sub and a sonos Port in which I have plug my Devialet Phantom Gold. Unfortunately there is a delay in the sound of my Devialet compare to the other speaker from sonos when I put them together. How I can fix that ? My objective is to play my Devialet WITH some other Sonos speakers. Is that possible with the Sonos Port ? (which is connected via the optic cable to the Devialet using a another connector RCA / optic )  Thanks a lot. 

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with Qobuz Premier as far as quality goes in general and how it might compare with the other hi-res services. Can you tell the difference and is it worth the $$. Primarily listening with Movepair of Play 1s, Arc Surround setup, Beam surround setup with no bass, Playbar surround setup no bass as well as a Play 1 pair setup. 

I know this is an old request.  But, is anyone at SONOS working on making it possible to see my Pandora stations alphabetically?   It is difficult to use with the current “most recent” sort.thanks Larry

I’ve invested thousands of pounds in Sonos tech and I’m, on the whole, very happy with the products, features and company.However recently, I’ve become saddened by Sonos’s behaviour. Trying to force customers to renew speakers just represents corporate greed.I was so pleased at the global reaction last year to their announcement that certain products would stop working.But now, Sonos seems to want to change tack and use different techniques…. putting a stupidly large banner in the S1 app and telling users they should upgrade (thus making certain speakers unusable) is pathetic.Come on Sonos, recognise loyalty, do the right thing, stop using playground behaviour and people will show even more loyalty and your sales will grow.Disappointed, of England

How do I add a song playing on Sonos HD Radio to a playlist? 

When I do the update on the app, is it only the app software that is updated; or are the speakers themselves updated as well?I am a technophobe!

In reviewing ‘Music Services’, I didn’t see ‘PodcastOne’ which is a VERY popular podcast site (app). Is this something I missed OR can SONOS add ‘support’ for it?

Have a recommendation, that I believe could be rectified with a software patch to do so. As an installer, this idea will also only help sell more Sonos product too. I would love the ability to design in some settings, where I could have 2 modern Sonos Amps AND a Beam or Arc or Playbar, all work together in 5 speaker surround. Currently, this cannot be done by the existing UI.With the current UI software, all 3 varieties of those Soudbars, are designed to act as the center, left and right, and then ONE Sonos amp, could drive 2 speakers, that act as the rears.I have had some design settings, where I would LOVE if software could accommodate, one of those Soundbars being JUST the center, & then TWO Sonos amps, driving 2 pairs of speakers. One Amp doing the left & right front, & the other amp doing the rear pair. My thought would be this would just need to occur at the software level to allow the capability, correct?No complaints on anything all around, LOVE Sonos!Thanks!AVID in

How do broadcasters get their radio stations added to Sonos Radio?  Initially Sonos Radio seemed to just have all stations which were registered in TuneIn but now they seem to have removed some of the stations (including mine!)CheersAlex 

Hi, I followed the blog on sonos to try to authenticate using OAuth2https://developer.sonos.com/blog/page/2/But after setting everything I get a invalid requestCan somebody tell me if there is been an update? I used the https://localhost but im not sure if it works as redirect URL. I used 2 accounts one for request the Token and the other one on which I created the integration app that gives me the client and secret. Any help super appreciated, thank you

As per Title, just leaving this here for reference.The last S1 update (that I grumbled about) has in fact put a smile on my face!! Since installing this I note that playback of WAV-encoded music from my local NAS is now enhanced by the S1 App showing Elapsed/Remaining Track times, the Track Progress indicator, and also allowing ‘scrubbing’ to any point in the track being played.Many Thanks to whoever decided that it was time to fix this!! (and I mean this, no sarc’ intended)Now, how long until someone tells me I should be using FLAC…..   :-)