Controllers and Music services

Why do I need to sign into a Sonos account to add a speaker? Sonos speakers disappear regularly then I would just go in an add them again. And now, this PITA has been made worse by making me sign in to add hardware I OWN inside my OWN HOUSE. Explain to me someone why I need to sign in?

Sonos works fine if I run it from my phone. However, once I upgraded to Mohave on my Mac Air, the Sonos app got stuck and I can't do anything with it. It won't close, play, or delete. Attached is what how the app looks in my finder. How can I delete it and download it again?

Remember the Windows media player? The one that let you turn visualisations on and have some nice patterns display on your PC screen in time to the music? Is there a piece of software that I can run on my PC that will do the same while playing music via sonos controller / spotify premium account. So while I play spotify through sonos can I run an application to display visuals on one of my PC screens, ideally that react to the music like the old media player did? Currently I have a play 5 hooked up to my router and PC line in, paired with a Play 1 as my PC speakers. A little extravagant and i may replace these with PC speakers, so would any solution then work without line in to the Play 5? I anyone knows of such software and if this is even possible would appreciate a heads up. Thanks Clive

When I control the volume on my Sonos setup from my Android phone's hardware volume buttons, I see up to 6 sliders. Whe I slide 1 of them, all others slide to the same setpoint. I don't feel like this is normal/expected behaviour. Can I fix this? Is this a bug that can be fixed?

using an hp desktop with the sonos play:3. i want to stream music from itunes on the desktop through the sonos speaker.

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I seem to be one of a number of Sonos owners who is having trouble with the latest controller update to 9.3. Some controller devices seem to have achieved a 9.3 update however, all my PC and ipad and android phone devices still start up with a request to update everything. The only way I can partially access my Sonos system is overriding the update and click on 'continue using controller'. This only shows some of the rooms being available for use as other rooms are greyed out and inaccessible. However, even trying to use the Sonos system this way, all media sources keep cutting out after seconds/minutes for a short time. I have submitted a diagnostic report 879747506. Nothing has changed on my system for several years. Nothing has been moved etc. A similar problem occurred a few years ago which was also most frustrating and it took Sonos to release an update 'fix' before my system returned to normal. Any help?

I would like to have continuous music playing - like cox cable music for 24 hours or more. I don't want to leave my computer or phone on the entire time. Do I have any options with Sonos???

My system is nowdays playing music ok but I still feel the Controllers are generally unresponsive and slow in many ways. This is especially prominent when I play local music files (flac). - Slow or extremely slow loading of artwork, sometimes artwork will never load for some tracks. But then next time it will load so no actual problem with the file. - On iOS if the Controller has been inactive for a while it will usually not respond first 5-10 seconds, also in this case artwork will reload, slowly. - If I pick up a iPad/iPhone with Controller running it will practically never show what I'm playing. It will show the wrong text, the wrong position and the wrong artwork. I will have to wait a ridiculous amount of time until it's correct. The problem exists on Laptop too but not so much as on iOS. - Very often on iOS the Controller will restart automatically when unit has been unused for a while. And after that restart it will take yet some time for correct artwork and controls to sh

Adjusting the volume on the Sonos app while playing music will also adjust my iPhone ring volume. How do I separate the volume control as such that the speaker volume control is independent?

I recently experienced the blank screen issue of the Sonos app (Windows 10 - 64bits). In this community I read a suggestion to uninstall the Intel graphics driver, but there may be an easier solution. At the bottom of the display settings window you will find graphics settings. Here you can set your preferences by app. I selected the Sonos.exe and assigned it another graphics driver. Without any restart I opened the Sonos app and it worked!

Am I missing something, or is it impossible to use the PC desktop controller to adjust the volume of individual zones when they are linked? On the remote controller, you can adjust the volume for the entire linked group, or zone by zone; the desktop controller, however, seems to only allow the option of adjusting the entire linked group. 😞

I would like to control the volume of my Sonos (controller) by pushing the standard volume buttons of my Mac. Similar to what you do with the Android volume button (or the iOS volume buttons, I assume)

I can save a combo of Spotify and amazon music songs in my que as a named que. but how do I bring it back to use later? I only see “clear queue” and “save queue” as options.

Every time i open the Sonos phone app i get reminded that the snooze alerts are off, If I want to turn them on. How can I get rid of this? Thanks

I currently have two separate Sonos systems under one roof/one WIFI. The first system is the original system (whole house) that I installed throughout my home, that consists of the following: - Sonos CR-200 controller (original) - Zone Player ZP90 (Connected to the router) - 8 Play 5's - 2 Play 3's - 2 play 1's The second system, installed more recently for my home theater is a Sonos Playbar, 2 Play 1's and Sonos Sub. Both systems can be seen on my Ethernet system/WiFi when I run an IP scanner on my network. When I launch the Sonos app on my iPhone 8+, (most of the time) the app displays/connects to the home theater system and sometimes the app connects to the whole-house system. Is there any way for the Sonos App (IOS) to allow choose/select either system? Right now, I can control the Home Theater system via the Sonos App and can only control the Whole-House system via the CR-200 controller. Thanks, John

Something great about Sonos is how relevant software is for the system. And saying that, I don't understand the lack of some functionality. Specifically, I'd like to see a Sonos app able to preset groups and volumes for different several situations. When I wake up, I like to group several speakers (6 out of my 11 areas), set certain volume level at each, and start playing some music. It's a long list of steps and I usually decide to forget about it. It's a shame: a house filled with Sonos speakers, quietly ignored. Currently, there are some third party apps that can do that, but I think this should be part of the Sonos controller. Didn't you choose Sonos at first because of its exclusive functions which are just impossible with other systems? Sound is great, but there are better. There are cheaper systems. There are nicer options. Sonos' real strength is functionality.They should care about stretching their leadership in this area as long as possible, improving the system capabilities

My girlfriend won't listen to podcasts with me on the Sonos because her mind wanders unless information is being jammed into her brain at hyper speed. I saw an old closed thread on this from like 5 years ago when I googled if increased play speed was possible, I feel like the option is pretty common now with even the iphone default podcast app supporting it so wanted to bring the topic up again. Please chime in if you would also use this feature.

Whenever I control my sonos system volume using my iPhone the volume settings of my phone are also altered. Does this happen to anyone else and should it be happening? Thanks.

Hi, Is there a possibility to schedule an alarm for grouped speakers? When you schedule an alarm to start playing music a a certain date/time, it's only linked to one Sonos speaker. But I want that alarm to be played on a group of Sonos speakers.

Any music lovers out there that comes from the "old school" with LP´s and CD´s would like to have the possibility of browsing through album covers to find the one album you would like to listen to? Let me illustrate with one example; Lets say you want to create a playlist entitled "Heavy Metal 2017", in which you would add whole albums from that genre and that year. After a while the playlist consist of 100 albums, wouldn´t it then be great to view these 100 albums as 100 album cover thumbnails instead of viewing track by track as a long list of 1000 songs? On the iPad/iPhone version of the controller app you have this option when viewing Sonos favorites, but you only have one Sonos Favorite "folder" and you can only add a very limited number of albums to that folder. For a start it would be great to see the limitation of albums you can add to Sonos favorites removed. But even an even better solution would be to let the user choose how he/she would like to watch their playlists - Eithe

I just installed a Beam and I found in the settings how to adjust sounds but when I do there is no difference. I have an iPhone and not using beta.

Since long time back (12m) my Sonos stopped working. When trying to start the Sonos app and start playing it says the Sonos Controller needs to be updated. The problem; it cant update. It tries for a while and then says it couldn’t update. It gives error code 1101 which is a general error for problem communicating. Have tried the diagnostic report with the Sonos support but problem remains. Doesn’t help to unplugg and reconnect devices. Have also reinstalled the entire network, same problem. I’m using a TP-LINK AC1750 router and wunder if anyone have any tips and tricks how to solve this? Maybe some router settings that needs to be configured??? Thanks

I am able to add a Song to my Sonos Playlist if I choose that single song from my music library on my Android phone. However, if I choose to shuffle all songs from My Library and then want to add a song to my Sonos Playlist the option is greyed out. Why is this? Is there a workaround for this in my settings?

provide the functionality to login to tunein radio service in order to access saved favourites from other devices. simple.