Controllers and Music services

Recently, the reminder that “It’s time to update” is not going away and stays on top of the screen. I get it. Sonos is becoming impatient. Fine. I will do it. But here is a sincere recommendation for the folks at Sonos:Every month I checked if there was a new meaningful release of the app. 8 months long I have been reading the same release note on the iOS AppStore: “Performance enhancements and improved reliability.” Of course, I checked the Sonos website and know about the changes in hi-res and WiFi 5 GHz. But the AppStore is your image, your business card.Sonos, this is so lazy. Take an example from other apps, whose release notes on AppStore are fun to read, which give you the feeling that there is a creative team behind the software, selling quality of life, not some generic software. Besides, reading these same release notes without end in sight gives me the feeling that S2 is ultra-buggy.This is just my thought. Don't know if other customers even read the release notes. But think

I have installed Sonos Desktop Controller 1124 (Sonos.exe version 6.0.0.34230) on a Windows 10 Pro host.Clicking the application results in the grey dialog box “Sonos” opening, and then nothing happens.  I have waited 5 minutes.  Looking in Task Manager the Sonos.exe is using no resources (it appears to be waiting?).I am able to use the Sonos Android Controller S1 with the same Sonos system.I am able to use Spotify with the same Sonos system.I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Desktop Controller. What gives?

Sonos support folks on here have stated that the nag message to upgrade to S2 will not be cleared for users with fully-S2-compatible systems, that they want us using S2 so we don’t miss out on useful new features. Here is my system’s use case - 3 Play:3s, 8 or 9 Play:1s. None are set up as stereo pairs. We don’t have Sonos connected to our home theater.  We don’t use any voice assistants aside from Siri on our phones. Don’t use Airplay. We use Pandora and Spotify and Amazon Music, and have some audio files on a NAS server.  We use a couple of Alarms to start music playing in a few rooms at various times of the day.  That’s pretty much it.I would love the ability to schedule grouping/ungrouping at certain times and play music to the new group. I see that asked for quite a bit. So, honest question: what new and exciting features does S2 offer me that would make me want to irreversibly change my system? How will S2 make my particular use case any better than what I can do in S1?

Can anybody tell me how to find specific songs within Playlists?  I find that often songs are repeated in Playlists and I want to be able to find if a song is already in a Playlist. Thks

I can’t log into my Tunein Radio Premium service…. 

I cannot create a new playlist, when i press the edit, there is no option of creating a new playlist, what do i need to do? SO frustrating

When playing an album from my music library, sometimes it doesn't move to next song. The 3 bars next to the song still move up and down to indicate that it is playing, but the song has ended and the timer is on 0.00. If I  manually select another song, then the app will still show the original song.

I am quite aware that this topic was asked before. I could find no satisfying answers, some were closed.  How can I add my wifes audible account to mine for use with sonos from a tablet? The app enables me to use one and delete the other.  My wife has her account on her mobile, mine is on my mobile. It seems that deleting one from the sonos system on the tablet deletes it from the mobile! THANK YOU!  stefan

Hi, I have all current gen 2 paired 5   sub which is grouped fine. I just paired 2 Ones which are in another group. Is there a way to group all together and sync? Not used for home theatre, just music. TIA

Can anyone please tell me what was changed in the S2 App update issued on March 2, 2021 and was there any problems regarding the update ( i.e. dropping speakers, glitches, etc)? Thanks in advance for any answers 

Hi, apologies if this has already been asked and answered, I could not find it in the forums.  We have numerous Sonos products in the house and myself and my daughters have Spotify accounts.  What I would like to achieve is as follows:If I set it up so that each person in the family has a Spotify premium account, via a family account, is the the following possible:Person 1 using Spotify account A via device 1 (say laptop) is listening through Sonos app and speaker in the kitchen.Person 2 using Spotify account B via device 2 (say smartphone) is listening via Sonos app and speaker in the basement.Person 3 using Spotify account C via device 3 (say iPad) is listening via Sonos app and speaker in the bedroom.All three of these listening sessions are occurring at exactly the same time. Is that possible or is it that one sonos network can only be actively playing back 1 Spotify account at a time?

All radio program titles have stopped updating. The music currently playing updates correctly but the program doesn't. So when I start Sonos in the morning I see last night's show title but today's tune! This happens on all providers, TuneIn, Radio player etc. It started some time ago on Sonos v1. I updated to v2 but it's the same. If I re select the same station it gets the correct program but never changes.Any ideas appreciated!

Hello,I find often that if I start a new queue say for example on my Macbook (e.g. let’s say Spotify Playlist B having previously played Spotify Playlist A, on another device, say my iPhone, it will show on now playing the correct song but when I go to the queue it will still show Spotify Playlist A as the queue even though B is playing.  If I force close app and reopen it then shows playlist B correctly. System is S2, all updated, no connectivity issues as far as I can see.

In the YouTube music app I can instantly create a radio station based on a song or a playlist. As far as I can tell this is not possible in the Sonos app with YouTube Music integration. Can we expect this feature at some point?

Hi Guys,Does anyone know whether the Move will be receiving the functionality recently announced for the Roam where it can seamlessly transfer from wifi to bluetooth when out of wifi range? Cheers, Wayne

I can’t figure out how to specify the path to my network drive. I connect to it on my Mac via:smb://mycloudex2ultraFrom there, the path is Public/SharedMusic/iTunesMusicI have tried this in the Sonos setup window:\\mycloudex2ultra\Public\SharedMusic\iTunesMusicBut after clicking Next and providing my Username and Password I get an “unable to add the music folder” error.Can anyone help?

I use my Sonos system (a bunch of Ones, Beam, Sub) throughout my apartment for both TV and Music. I always have to make volume and EQ adjustments when I switch between the two. Is there a way to create different default settings for TV vs music? If not, I guess this is a feature request 🙂

I’ve seen this problem in the community a few times.  I have a completely S1 set of hardware working fine with Android and MacOS controllers.  The Windows 10 controller on a laptop stopped working (see two screenshots - the installation suggests that the existing system has been found, and then “Sorry, we can’t connect” back in the app).  Has anyone got a routine way of addressing this?  I’ve uninstalled the S1 controller, downloaded from Sonos.com and installed again - same issue.  It used to work fine on Windows 10, but sometime last year it stopped working. 

Problem as per title -  the new S2 app no longer persistently shows the elapsed and remaining times for the track being played. It does show the progress bar - but not the times as numbers. The times appear when the track starts but then disappear after a couple of seconds. Same thing if you touch the progress bar while a track is playing - the times re-appear, then fade. There is no setting to control this. I really dislike this - I like to be be able to see the times without having to continuously be tapping the screen. Why on earth would Sonos think it’s a good idea to make this change? Very annoying. Anyone else feel like this?

I normally use spotify to stream music. Now I need Apple Music instead. But when i stream as I do with spotify, I cant leave the network. I hve set up the apple music the same way as with spotify. what am I doing wrong???

As per title.  On my laptop I can delete the queue but only able to when I click top right of a song.  But same happen with next choice?

My copy of the iOS iPad app no longer has a “Playlists” category on the My Sonos screen. Is anybody else having that issue? I can’t figure out how to fix it. My playlists are still showing up in the iPhone app, and on iPad I can still add songs to my playlists. I just can’t access them.Note that these are not imported playlists. There were created via the Sonos iPad app.

Hi,Is it possible to add/import a sonos playlist into spotify ?Thanks for your helpGuy-pierre

Is it just me that wants to sit down and listen to music without all the annoying nag screens for S2 updates?  STOP IT     

So is there no way to turn off the nag screen to update to S2 in S1?It’s filling out like 1/3 of the screen, it’s pathetic.I thought the whole idea with S1 was to branch off us oldtimers who are not interested in going along with the new Sonos direction.