Controllers and Music services

Do you (Sonos) have any plans on introducing a Jukebox-mode to the Sonos-system. I guess a lot of users have tried having a party with a well prepared playlist blown to pieces by guests adding tracks to play next. I would like a mode where users where only able to ADD to queue...

What a major setback!

I would like to play HD Radio on my Sonos speakers. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to directly integrate a local music source into the desktop app. Currently, it is possible to play HD Radio on your computer using a $25 RTL-SDR USB adapter and the NRSC5 library. See: https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5 I describe how to use this library along with Airfoil on my Mac in order to stream a radio station to networked speakers using Airplay or Google Cast here: http://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/5052 Unfortunately, I cannot currently fling music to my new Sonos One speakers. There seem three possible options: 1) Wait for Google Assistant integration for the Sonos One speakers and anticipate that they will support Google Cast then. 2a) Create a Icecast music server. Pipe music from NSRC5 library to that. Then create a local Internet radio station on my Mac that "tunes" to the Icecast server. 2b) There might be a similar solution using UPNP rather than

Is it possible to bring my SONOS Play:1 with me to my college dorm room, using my laptop?

I'd like to see a feature which allows you to stream any audio output onto your Sonos system, e.g. use the audio of the YouTube, SkyGo app or any game you play. That would be quite neat.

The story is I have a very large music collection. I have all my music on a stand alone 3 TB Synology drive. Sonos is lynced to this one music folder. I update it but things are missing. Whole bands are missing. 9 Out Of 10 cds are missing from an artist. And it’s not just towards the end. This is in the B’s and E’s. I did read something up a 65,000 song limit but I thought the way I read it that was like through iTunes, not something like a Synology working off it’s own server, so to speak. Is there a fix? If so how? Thanks. Extremely frustrated. And don’t understand why this should be a problem.

Hi all If I am listening to music but searching for albums to add to my Sonos playlist from Spotify it won't let me add that album as the "done" button is greyed out? I can only add an album if I am playing it. Am I missing something?

How do you disable your daily Sonos alarm when you're away from your home?

I truly believe that the controller UI on Windows could use a revisit! It works okay, but it is not aligned with the new trends of the newer windows versions - like windows 10. Controller UI's on other platforms like Android or Mac see continuous improvements in controller UI - Why not Windows? While you are at it - go all the way, and make it a UWP app :8 ! Then I could control Sonos from Holo Lens! Sonos you where trend setting with your audio system - please continue to evolve - thanks!

Hi, I've just purchased a Sonos 3 and a Kindle Fire 8 HD to control it with. The trouble is the Kindle loses the connection to the Sonos regularly which is really annoying. This doesn't happen using either an iPhone or Samsung S7. I've connected the Sonos via ethernet and wirelessly and still get the same problem. Any ideas what the problem might be?

I used to be able to select my favorite stations, podcasts, etc from the Favorites tab. Has that gone away or am I just not looking hard enough? Using the app on my Android phone, hanging on to the older desktop version as long as I can. PS the white backgrounds are NOT an improvement.

I love my Sonos kit but I have to say the new release of controller is awful. Switching content and rooms just seems so much more clunky now, I’m never 100% which room or group i’m changing music for. Switching rooms is horrible too, the place I got to intuitively gives me the option only to group not switch. If this was the app available when I bought my first Sonos 1 I would have exactly one Sonos speaker in a cupboard, rather than over ten around the house. Favourites is a waste of space too, who lists content like that alphabetically??? Allow customisation or at least list the ones used most often on the home screen. The old controller was intuitive and worked so well, this one is a disaster. Needs sorting soon, do I continue to invest in the Sonos brand or jump ship now?

I have different rooms equiped with wall-mounted Play 3 devices. I would appreciate for an easy way to switch the music from one room to another. This is particularly useful if I spent some time building a playlist or selecting a radio station and that I don't want to have to go through search to find that station again. At the moment, my two options seems to be: 1- Stop the music in Room 1, then start music in Room 2 (need to rebuilt my playlist or search the radio station) 2- Group Room 2 to Room 1, and then ungroup Room 1 from Room 2. Both of those options are inelegant. If I could have some kind of "Sent to" function (or drag and drop a room on another one) that would be great.

Hi all, is there a way (automation) to disable WLAN of the speaker in case he have a LAN connection? KR Stephan

Without going in discussion on if the new app is good or bad... we have to deal with it. But i am looking for the genres list. When you search for a playlist or a radiostation in the old app there was a list with suggestions. Now you only have a blanc search field. Is this list still hidden somewhere?

New App Update is Terrible.... SONOS please listen to your customers and at least give us the option of using the old version. Why are you over thinking it. The previous version was about perfect. I use it everyday and now im fumbling and getting frustrated trying to control various rooms and sources... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I have two Sonos accounts and want to merge the two. How do I change a registered Sonos One from one account to another?

Hi. Would it be possible to make it so you can adjust the eq sliders ect by tapping the plus and minus as i find the current method frustrating when dialing in my sound. Also an increase in the resolution of the controls would be nice too.

We have several different devices that we are using in the home to access sonos, including a samsung phone, ipad and an iphone. The only issue is with the iphone. When the sonos was initially setup 2 weeks ago there were no problems. Now when I go to the music services on the iphone it can't display any music and it says there is a network error. However, there is no network error and all the other controllers have no issues playing the music through the sonos one in our house speakers.

I want to search and save new Spotify playlists on my Sonos app. Every time I click on save as a Spotify playlist it flashes the screen for me to save a new playlist but then goes right to my playlists. This option only allows me to save the new playlist to an existing one!

Is anybody else finding that the new User Interface on an iPad is no longer as intuitive as it was before the recent upgrade? I'm not against change but this seems to have gone to far. Seems like a lot more selections required to Group SONOS units, and then to select music or radio items. The bar at the base of the window for home, units etc. perhaps should be visible on all screens. Less than impressed with this upgrade.

Once Google Assistance becomes available on Sonos, should it be able to use Play:1 speakers? Also I would think if you own a Android cell phone it should be able to emulate a Google Home Mini. Comments welcomed!

Hi. I have Sonos Play 5 which has been working well for a while. I moved place and had to setup the system again. Once I have set up and trying to add music folders to my library I am getting Error 900. I tried the solution given in the FAQ section of editing the registry but having done this 2 times and reinstalled the player I am still unable to add the folders to the library. Went through the forums and can't find a single solution for the problem across multiple threads. Need this to use my device. Please help

I have noticed recently that when changing channels on my tv the sound disappears! If I scroll through the channels, back and forth, the sound will come back eventually. What could be causing this problem?

Not to cause a panic but according to an article on CNet " Practically every modern processor is vulnerable" to the subject bad guys. To be clear INTEL, AMD and ARM chips were specially mentioned. Specific products were laptops, tablets and phones. No mention of smart speakers like Sonos. Here's an excerpt from the article followed by a link: A newly discovered exploit in most modern processors could make your computer or phone vulnerable to attacks. But chipmakers say they've got fixes ready to go. Several researchers, including a member of Google's Project Zero team, found that a design technique used in chips from Intel, Arm and others could allow hackers to access data from the memory on your device. The problem impacts processors going back more than two decades and could let hackers access passwords, encryption keys or sensitive information open in applications. The flaws, known by the names Spectre and Meltdown, aren't unique to one particular chipmaker or device.