Controllers and Music services

The wonderfully eclectic, commercial-free deep rock FM radio station KCDX from Arizona streams on TuneIn but Sonos fails to play it, displaying the error message, “the song is not encoded properly.”The KCDX.com website streams in what I’ve seen described as, “that in-line chunked blob object-style format.” Here's the direct URL: http://vdn.terrafox.com/audio/kcdx/playlist.m3u8Is there any way to get this working on Sonos? Doing a search of this forum the same question was posted some time ago with no resolution. 

Hello,I would like to listen to my app podcast on iOS on my Sonos One but I can’t enable “group non airplay products”.Also, when I turn on the HomeKit app, add new accessory, skip the code/scan button, nothing shows up...Anyone can help?Thanks,Jean.

I have an iPhone 12. I have a Sonos Move and 2 One SL’s. Heres my problem. I can only control the volume when the App is in the foreground (ie on my screen). When the app is in the foreground I can control it via the hardware on iPhone (ie the volume buttons on the side) or via the slider. On the App I have “Hardware Volume Control” & “Lock Screen Controls “ both turned on (ie to the right). To state the obvious, its all connected via wifi. I have seen some solutions that perhaps what's stopping it is the phone is connected to some other device via bluetooth. Thats not it as if I turn bluetooth off that doesnt fix the problem.If the ONLY wat to control the volume is to have the App open, and in the foreground, thats nuts.Help Moderator note: We updated this article in October 2023 with new information below.We’ve removed the ability to control the Sonos app for iOS using lock screen controls and device hardware buttons. The way these features were architected do not meet Apple’s ex

Just in case any Sonos designers check these forums (?), I have one feature request to improve discovery functionality of the S2 app. On the iOS version of S2, it’s possible to find the command “Search for [artist]” when tapping on the “...” button next to the name of the artist that’s currently playing over Sonos Radio. However, on the iPadOS version of S2, this command is missing (see screenshots). (As is the subsequent option to “Add artist to My Sonos”). I can’t imagine that there’s a structural reason for this discrepancy in app design; and it interrupts the otherwise seamless experience of the Sonos system—especially for those of us who see Sonos Radio to discover new music. (As an aside: better integration with Apple Music would also be appreciated. E.g. being able to add albums directly to the Apple Music Library). iPhone app, with discovery function (“Search for..”) iPadOS app lacks same discovery function 

Is there a way to remove line in option from the available sources? I have many amps with nothing plugged into the line in port, it’s confusing for other users (parents).

I am running the S1 and have most a fair amount of gen 2 components but am still running a gen1 amp, so I am using s1. I tried to add a new play bar but am being blocked until I upgrade my system. In reading other threads I upgraded to iOS 14.3 and have restarted my router and each Sonos component. I still cannot perform a system upgrade.

Hey Sonos… listen up.  You phone app has turned into “Pop-up central” for your HD radio service.  I only need to see it once, not every time I get into the app.   if I am missing a setting to turn this unwanted advertisements off… I apologize and please let me know what this setting is.  If not, please stop the madness. thanks

With the latest update, there appears to be no way to remove Sonos Radio from Services & Voice.  The only option is to Reauthorize the service.  I don’t care about this service.  I don’t want this service, and I don’t want to be forced to see it in my list.  Seriously, this may be a deal breaker for me to continue using Sonos.  

1283737834 is the confirmation number for the diagnostics report.

My Ipad streams audio to my Sonos Beam. How can I stop that from happening?

there is not enough space for song titles in portrait, which is not always needed but it’d be nice to come up to date or at least 2017 with an update to the app that allows the app to rotate 

Just checking - currently using S1 software. Is there any way of getting rid of the Sonos Radio icon? I’ll never use it and pressing it just goes to a sign-up screen.

I have two rooms:Living Room: sonos one gen 1 Kitchen:  sonos one gen 2We always play music using Airplay on our iPhones.I’d like to have three ways to connect to bluetooth to connect via AirPlay:Living Room Kitchen All Rooms: both Living Room and KitchenAs it is right now options one and two exist, I just need assistance in setting up the All Rooms option. I tried to create a group however it says you can only do that for three or more rooms.Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to remove Sonos Radio from the menus in the mobile and/or desktop apps?   It’s rather in the way, and since we already have Spotify, Amazon, Tunein, I really don’t need to add another service. Since it’s confusing for people to see it, and then be presented with a login box (why!?), I’d rather just hide the icon. Is there a way? If not, why not?

Similar to other discussions, had been using Sonos 1 with no issues.Sonos 2 app on Windows different story, service fails to start/process crashes etc.None of the “uninstall and re-install” stuff works.By looking at the event logs, decided to look at the cases of the exception being thrown with other products. In my case, changing the colour management settings resolved my issue.Having spent a while looking, may be worth Sonos Dev/support writing a better “how to” set of trouble shooting steps than seem to be available.Hopefully, this may help others.https://localjoost.github.io/Crash-in-image-creation-at-System.Windows.Media.Imaging.ColorConvertedBitmap.FinalizeCreation/ Application: Sonos.exeFramework Version: v4.0.30319Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.Exception Info: System.ArithmeticExceptionException Info: System.OverflowException   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.ColorConvertedBitmap.FinalizeCreation()   at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.ColorCo

I’d love to either save Brittany Howards playlist or save the station - is either possible? 

Hello Not sure who can assist or what the solution is? Was Thinking a paid subscription may assist? Selected sonos station 365 smooth jazz lounge to play  sonos auto play selection for this station began playing the following song Eazy - E - Merry X-Mas under information shows now playing this song? why is a rap song with curse words playing on a smooth lounge jazz station? not to mention the commercial adds that play more often then music plays   *Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the community guidelines.*

Confised amd disappointed    Im 99% sure sonos under s1 woukd play 24/48 flac so what exciting things have arrived other rhan some room configuration? 

i just submitted diagnostics 1953926018. VERY frustrated Sonos customer here. After 2 years of perfect connectivity and NO changes to my ISP, router or speakers, now sonos drops every few minutes and intermittently loses speakers, all Play 1. This only started after the S2 controller app update. NOTHING ELSE CHANGED. I was on CS chat for over 50 min this am, case #02469027 and we tried everything, no luck. They won't eacalate until i do this all over again but via phone. What a waste of time when NOTHING changed on my end. I now have 100s of dollars in speakers that won't play.  What is Sonos doing to correct??

Hi all, I just spend several hours reading the several discussions about the bugs create by the android 10 Release.I’m using several samsung phones which are not able anymore to found my Sonos system.System a boost and 4 old play one. I’m not able to connect it anymore via the boost to my phone.(yes IO restarted all the system , the router , the app, the phone , and no it did not fix the issue….)Funny point on my ‘old’ Samsung phone under Android 8 it is still working.So it seems that on top of Sonos issue with the I-phone OS, you also have issue with Android 10 . Is there a fix foreseen as the problem with the latest android OD as it seems not linked to the phone manufacturer (several of them are impacted according to the forum .

I have a Five connected to my PC via the line-in. The PC sometimes is used for Skype, Zoom, etc. Mostly I use the Five for streaming. But if the PC beeps or otherwise makes a sound, it terminates the music stream, which I have to restart. It would be MUCH better if either the Five could simply merge the two input streams (act as a mixer), or return to streaming when the PC shuts up. Seems like at least the second approach should be a very easy fix, with a switch to control whether this behavior is enabled. Acting as a mixer might be harder, but should be considered.Does anybody else have this problem? 

Hi allOk so l have 2 competing systems in my home !Both work well Sonos 1 & Yamaha MusicCast but would be good to just have one system.My LG Oled is connected to my Yamaha RXA3080 & B & W Centre, ASW sub & 2 x CM5 bookshelf as fronts & 4 in ceiling speakers & rears & atmos.I am using the Yamaha zone 2 to power myAlfresco speakers as you can see the TV & this ensures no lag in the sound all controlled by the MusicCast app.I then have 4 Sonos ones & 2 ZP120s powering 2 pairs of ceiling speakers in other rooms all run by The Sonos 1 app.In the cupboard l have a Sonos connect ZP90 not plugged in doing nothing.If l plug the connect into the Yamaha amp how should l do that, what connection type & port.Will that bring the Yamaha & the TV surround speakers & the alfresco set up into the Sonos app?Will doing this create a wifi lag in the alfresco speakers taking them out of sync with the TV?with thanks for your expertise in advance.

Okay, so I recently received an LG ThinQ TV with the Magic Remote and had difficulty setting it up to control the Sonos system. I spent a decent amount of time researching how to do it and after following step by step processes of known setup up procedures to make it work, it still didn’t work. Needless to say, the one step that made it work was to simply turn off the tv and run the remote configuration setup through the Sonos app and it works seamlessly.  

Hi pals, is there an option to sort a playlist “upside down” meaning that the songs least added to a spotify playlist will be at the top? I recently found this feature in the spotify app itself but did not see any equivalent in the SONOS app. As my “Star rated” playlist on spotify contains roughly 1000 songs it would be handy to get faster to the tracks I recently added. Thank you in advance! Chris 

Hi,while visiting my parents over Christmas, I made the following observation: they have a small Sonos system in their home, consisting of two Play:1 and one Play:5 gen. 2 as well as a Bridge. At some point they upgraded their system to S2, so all the Speakers are running S2 now while the bridge is of course still on S1 and should not work with the rest of the system anymore, or that’s at least what I expected. Since I thought the bridge would be rather useless now, I unplugged it’s power cable just to realize that by doing this, all the speakers stopped working and the app lost connection to the system. Plugging the bridge back in, system reverted to normal operation. In the app under “My System” all the components are shown with WM:0, meaning they have a wired connection (via the bridge). So why exactly does Sonos tell us that the Bridge is not compatible with S2, which might be technically correct (it still runs S1) but who cares as long as it does its job? Best,Andreas