Controllers and Music services

How do I create a new sonos playlist? I am on an Android Galaxy S8 Thanks Paul

(I dont know if this has been discussed before but it didn't come up in my searches. Apologies if it has) Essentially I would like starting any live streaming service such as tunein radio to automatically look to see if it that stream is playing in any other room and automatically share that stream. It seems daft and annoying to me that if I select the same radio station in two rooms then they play with a very significant delay between the different rooms. I realize that I can easliy link the rooms to solve this but, here's what happens in our house: We have the radio playing in the bedroom and bathroom. To avoid the annoying effects of the delay, I pick up my phone and link the rooms Now, let's imagine I'm in the shower and my wife heads downstairs. She taps the play/pause in the bedroom like she normally does and guess-what?.... it stops in the bathroom too because I linked them. If they simply shared the same stream then they would act like two regular radios in two rooms.

I've noticed over time (within the last say 8 months) the URLs for the speakers don't seem to work. Specifically I'm referring to http://(ipaddress):1400/support/review/. I'm not sure exactly when but a few updates ago this URL used to work and on that page there was a 'Network Matrix' link. At some point through the months I noticed that the network matrix link stopped expanding and no longer showed the matrix and now (more updates later) the support/review/ URL is totally gone resulting in a 404 error. Anyone else having the same behavior? If so, I find it a bummer. I thought the network matrix was a good piece of info for troubleshooting signals.

It would be great if you could add apple airpods. There are times I am away from my speakers but want to listen to everything on my sonos.

Is anyone aware of a visualizer for now playing in a future release of the sonos program? Or any third party ways of showing this? I would love during parties to have like a visualizer showing what's now playing or like a fanart to display on my tv or computer or whatever. I've attached a picture of an example from XBMC which has this feature in the program (looks awesome!) Thanks in advance, -Mike M.

Trying to update on a Mac, I got error code 1100, telling me to uninstall and re-download. I uninstalled, but when I went to the link and tried to download, all I got were "release notes," and no download.

As of 06/01/19 "MacRumors" is reporting that Apple is planning on dropping iTunes. I use iTunes to: Copy/rip cd's to the iTunes Library Organize my music (500+ cd collection) in playlists with album covers etc. Transfer the same to iPhone. playback on Mac and iPhone copy the same library with play lists and album covers, to WD NAS for Sonos library. Does anyone know of a decent product that allows me to keep doing the same, and works for MAC/IOS. Free or 1 time reasonable purchase is acceptable I know this is a similar topic from a few years ago, but wanted to re-ask the question and identify the specific requirements. Thanks

Since the last update the android mobile devices that previously connected to SonosNet cant see the network in the list of available WiFi SSIDs. Also the option in Advanced setting that allows you the option to connect to SonosNet has disappeared. All my devices and the controller are showing 10.2 as the version. My phone updated 17 hours and that ties in with the connection disappearing.

Hi, My husband and I have separate paid google play accounts (with our own preferences in each). We've recently updated the sonos app and are having difficulties to set up two sonos accounts to be used on our home system (one playbar and several play 1 around the house). Further on, once google assistant is available in Poland (it's not available for us over here yet!), will it be able to recognize our different google accounts? Any advice on how to set up multiple sonos accounts on the same sonos system? We don't want to mix our music preferences / configs under the same sonos account. Thanks!

Is there a way to access my Sonos playlist while its playing from a webgui from another device on the same network. Essentially, while my Play list is in use, I'd like the ability to connect to a webpage to display the song/artist that is currently playing from my Sonos Playlist. Is this possible? Has anyone tried this before? I'd like to use it as a display to others can view the song info if they would like to. Thanks Chris

Greetings, After a Sonos system update ran inadvertently (this morning) by a user on one IOS device, I can no longer use a 7-year old iPad because its IOS version is 9.3.5. Here is the message I got: "The software on this device is outdated. To keep the music playing, update the operating system or use a different mobile device with Sonos." IOS 9.3.5 is the latest version running on this iPad. The user ran the update without any incompatibility warning; he just did not know. I am really upset and frustrated with this latest Sonos update. I have been a Sonos user since 2011 and until today, I was quite pleased with my system (7 Sonos devices on two different sites.) The ability to control it with different phones and tablets was a great feature; I do not necessarily control it with the latest phone. My hardware has not changed; there is no reason why a system that worked perfectly has suddenly one of its components become obsolete because of a software update.

I have an older Samsung Tablet GT-P7510) at the moment running Android 4.0.4. It's based in the kitchen used for family stuff. I thought it would be obvious to use this tablet also as a Sonos controller running the Sonos app, but... (and I am aware others have described this problem, but I have not yet found an acceptable solution..). The Sonos app will not run, saying it needs a newer Android version, but when I try to do a software update, I am told there is no new update available. Since using another device is not an option (or rather I do that also), I think I have three options: Somehow upgrade the Android from anther source than the Play store, but is that possible, will it work, will it be stable? Somehow downgrade the Sonos controller app to a version that works with the Android version I have, but is that possible and where would I find older versions? Find a third-party app or a web based service for controlling my Sonos system but do they exist, do they work? This

How do I play my iPhone apps through sonos. In particular the “calm” app?

I am not sure if this has been proposed befrore, but I did not find any related threads. I am running into the problem to quickly/easily adjust the Sonos volume from my Windows 10 computer (context: sound source via line-in). If I want to do this task, I need to launch the controller, wait a few seconds, then shift the mouse to the respective Sonos window, and adjust the volume. The aspect I dislike the most is that I need to open a window just in order to change the volume. What I am suggesting is an icon next to the Windows system volume icon on the right side of the Windows task bar (next to the clock). When you click it, it should work exactely like the Windows system volume slider - an up/down slider for the Sonos volume -- potentially with multiple sliders representing multiple speakers and overall volume (and potentially let the user select which speakers appear in this menu, i.e. those speakers she/he controls frequently from that computer). Thanks for considering thi

One of my Android controllers upgraded itself to 10.2 today (despite NOT having auto update enabled) and lost connectivity. A few days ago this controller, which I stress did NOT have auto update enabled started to update its software from 10.0 and I managed to prevent this. Initially, I wasn't too bothered since sonos touted their update as 'performance and reliability improvements' and didn't think any issue would ensue. Generally I do like to run updates. In order to keep things level and have a hope of keeping my devices with the same version (i.e functional) I updated my other controllers. 10.2 I later found has prevented access of my wireless controllers to sonosnet. So, now, when I'm stood next to a wired player, which is a considerable physical distance from my router I now have to walk with my phone (or other wireless controller) so that I'm within connectivity distance to my router's reception so that I can control the features of the device that I was stood next to. I

I have come to accept that Sonos do not see an immediate future in offering support for high resolution audio files due to hardware limitations etc. I also am not concerned with whether or not high resolution audio files sound better than their redbook counterparts. It is however an unfortunate fact that some masters of some albums have been treated with better care and attention, and/or optimised for a high fidelity listening environment, and these are often only available digitally in a high resolution format. I'm sure I am not the only Sonos customer to have purchased some of these files, and it's extremely annoying to hit play on a track only to be greeted with silence and a minor glitch. My request is to enable some sort of downsampling technology at a software level so that the resulting file which is ultimately streamed to one's Sonos speaker is at whatever the nearest maximum supported bitrate/sampling rate is. I guess much like Bluetooth's SBC codec.

I am an industrial electromechanical tech and was thinking that this system would be perfect for many day to day functions beyond just music. voice time clock with option to configure how often. one could also have app to connect into your android phone that could read allowed using speech engine notifications (email alerts, msgs from phone, social updates etc). make a wired/wireless door bell module. music follow me function easy click or auto room detection there are many things this could become.

I'm really in love with my Sonos system. I own Play:1, Play:3 and Play:5 and I'm considering buy more components. The only unhappy thing I find is the volume control bar in the app (on any version: phone, tablet, desktop, etc.): I think that is such a bit difficult to precisely control the volume. Sometimes I find hard to select the desired volume to me with the really short bar you provide in the app. It alway goes too hi or too low. I'd rather prefer a precision wheel (or even a bar) where I could choose accurately a value from 0 to 100 (or even from zero to 250, or whatever) in order to get a better control on the amount of volume. I hope you'll find helpful my suggestion to improve the app experience. I think it's a question of software that you can easily manage.

how to change background color in the sonos app

Have just downloaded the latest app update for both iPad and iPhone. The on my device is there on my iPad but not there on iPhone. I have deleted the app and re installed but it is not there.

I use both Artist and Album Artist tags frequently for my tracks. Sonos desktop controller (other controllers probably do the same) shows Artist in the information screen for the track, but when I select Artist Info->View Tracks by This Artist, the controller does not match anything. This is because Sonos interprets Album Artist (when it's not empty) tag as Artist, and the actual Artist appears only as Contributing Artist (if enabled in the controller's settings), but the search functions does not include the Contributing Artist field. Very inconvenient. Please, add Contributing Artist field in the Search function!

I use apple music through my Sonos setup. There is a great feature in apple music that is not available in the sonos app. Shuffling all the music by a particular artist in my library. Right now I can see all of the music I have by a particular artist but there is no "Shuffle all" button. That would be a great feature. There are many times when I know what artist I want to hear but rather than picking an album I would just like to hear everything I have by that artist. Thanks for considering this.

In-app searches yield no results across Spotify and my other services. I reset the Sonos controller but the problem persists. What gives?

My iPhone controller app has changed it's language to Norwegian by itself. I could not find any settings to reset it to English. I removed the app and reloaded it but it's still in Norwegian. I'm living in Finland and would prefer English in my controller app. 

On Music Source Make Line In an Actual Source Name On the Music Menu it would be nice to have it "say" the actual Line-In instead of just "Line In". When you go to search the Music Menu you would see "Living Room" or "Bar Sound" instead of "Line In" then going to the line in sources. Trying to tell people what LINE IN means actually confuses them. We all here understand but need a different way to "hide" the Line In and just go straight to the line in source. Make sense?