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Talk about Sonos S1 and S2 Controller apps for mobile, and the desktop app. This is also the place to talk about partner apps, Airplay, and direct control.

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Sonos Controller Software Downloads

Trying to find where to download the Sonos Controller Software?  The Sonos software is available on our support page and you can find direct...
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scottshaContributor I
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NEED Sonos and Alexa integration!!

The title says it all! ASAP. Everyone I know is using Alexa (Amazon Echo or a device that uses that). QVC just sold 108,000 units of the Amazon Echo. But no Sonos integration or even an IFTTT to use my speakers with Alexa. Please.

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Chris
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CliffmeContributor I
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Alarm volume should start smoothly

Everyone who uses an alarm, would rather like to be waked up by a progressive increasing (and decreasing) volume and not directly to the settled volume level. Shouldn't be that a normal setting nowadays? If every one agrees, please add that feature asap.

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TrevorzalContributor I
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Pandora and Shuffle Play Only Selected Stations

When I use Pandora (not Pandora One) I can select Shuffle Play and choose which of the many stations on my list I want to be included in that Shuffle. How is this feature enabled when using Pandora on Sonos. Does the Quickmix allow you to select a limited number of stations or does it just toggle between all of your stations.

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tre1515Contributor I
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Using Sonos/speakers as Intercom

Since sonos has access to microphone on ios devices. It would be a great idea to add a feature where i can record a message on the app and send it to a dedicated room. Sometimes when im in the kitchen cooking and i want to let my kids to come and eat, I would like to announce it through the play 1 that is in their the room rather than shout it out. :8

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walkychalkyTrending Lyricist I
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My iMac won't stay awake when my Sonos is playing since update to 5.4

Ever since upgrading to the new controller, my iMac no longer stays awake while using my Sonos. I have my music library stored on my iMac and have it set to sleep after only a few minutes. In all previous versions on the controller, as long as I had music playing in Sonos, my iMac would stay awake so the the connection could stay alive and the music would keep playing song after song until i paused it or the end of the queue was reached, at which point the iMac would sleep after a few minutes of inactivity per the energy saver settings. However, since upgrading to the newest controller (5.4), this is no longer the case. It now sleeps even if music is playing if i am not also using the iMac for computing. As a result, Sonos loses the connection to my music library and is unable to play the next track in my queue. Is there a fix for this issue? I know I can set my energy settings so my iMac never sleeps, thus fixing the connection loss issue. However, I do not want to do this because I

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hookr88Contributor I
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renaming a room

How do change living room 2 to kitchen? Also, how do I find the equipment associated with a room?

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ratty
7 years ago
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Sonos IdeasSonos Employee
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Add multiple individual tracks to playlist

A Sonos user would like the ability to add multiple individual tracks to a playlist.

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7 years ago
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cjm914Contributor I
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Music Library Grayed Out

I recently gifted a Play 1 to a friend. She told me that she was not very computer confident,so I installed in for her. She has a new iPhone, but her laptop is old (7 years). I attempted to install the Sonos controller on the laptop (windows XP) I downloaded and installed the Sonos app and attempted to hook up the play 1 speaker. However, the program didn’t “see” the speaker when I hit the stop & + button. I tried several times to no avail. I then tried to install the Sonos app on the iPhone, that took a while but was eventually successful. The app functioned fine. I wanted to give Sonos access to her music library, but her music was only on her laptop. After her iPhone installation, I again tried to install Sonos on her laptop. This time the laptop “found” the speaker immediately. But the music library settings was ‘grayed out’ and I am unable to get access to her music library. I noticed that the laptop did not have iTunes installed, I installed iTunes, but I was still un

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Paulw123
7 years ago
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adriaan1975Contributor I
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So Complicated... WHY?

Hi, I am a new customer / Sonos 5 owner... I do not know why you make it so complicated to hook up a direct line into the speaker. Or to use apple play or any other direct app to device functions. The SONOS app sucks. I just want to use the Spotify App, and be able to control the volume of the speakers from my keyboard. Seriously SONOS, the speakers sound great but this whole app thing is totally not necessary or what customers want. Super frustrating experience.

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T00LF00L
7 years ago
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fdotrAvid Contributor I
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Is it possible to use a Sonos Favourite for an alarm?

If I make a radio station or playlist a Favourite it stops being available in the alarm choice, what is the way around this?

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sarahjosephine1Contributor I
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Manage options not working

I updated my Sonos system this morning and now the manage options are greyed out-cannot manage system or library now. I use an Apple computer.

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ratty
7 years ago
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DamianLContributor I
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iTunes library

I just purchased the Play:1 to listen to music without turning my TV on. I use a Mac mini as an HTPC for all my media I was hoping this device would be able to use my iTunes library from my iPhone however I soon realized that the music needs to be stored on the iPhone. What good is this if my only choices are to cherry pick songs to store on my Phone for playback or running the risk of using all my phones space to store over 50,000 songs just to use this device. I hope I'm missing something and the community is able to help because at this point the speaker is useless. Sorry if I'm coming off vexed I'm just irritated. I was hoping after hardwiring (ethernet) the speaker I assumed I was able to play from my iTunes iOS app or at best be able to play ALL my music from iTunes without using every bit of space on my phone. The speaker is beautiful and is well made. I want to like it but maybe Bluetooth is the better option. Thank you for help in advance.

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jgatie
7 years ago
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coloalpContributor I
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Questions: How to stop/disable popup with info about new tune playing

On MAC desktop, playing music from Pandora or Amazon (haven't tried other sources) when new tune starts playing a popup with artist and tune name info appears on top of whatever else am working on. It is distracting and often annoying when am doing work. Is there a way to disable or stop this from happening? If not, hope Sonos will consider building-in that option. thanks-

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User868737Contributor II
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Favorites, edit order of list.

Could you add the abililty to adjust the order of the favorites. As of now the list seems to only be in alaphabetical/numerical order. Thanks,

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Harry Slaughter
7 years ago
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David_198Trending Lyricist I
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Forced to update to incompatible controller software?

I have been using my three Sonos Play:1s quite happily now for well over a year, but now I have bought a new Play:1 and when trying to add it, I'm told "Your Sonos controller must be updated before you can add and set up Sonos products". I recall getting an email saying that the latest version of the Sonos Controller would not be compatible with Windows XP, which I'm still using on the machine where the Sonos controller is used. Does this mean that I will be forced to update to a version of the controller that is not compatible with my OS, thus rendering my entire system unusable? Before anyone says it, I am not interested in updating to a newer version of Windows at the moment. It's an enormous amount of work and there is no compelling reason for it. The OS is just background infrastructure in my view, not a toy. It should be meddled with as little as possible.

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Martin_63Avid Contributor I
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Automatically clear the queue?

Hello, Is there a way to automatically clear the queue when you start to play a new song or a new album? I don't always want Sonos to continue playing when my new selected songs or album is finished playing. I thin it would be a great feature.

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7 years ago
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condevittoContributor I
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SONOS BETA 7.1 & IPHONE

Hi there, Apologies if this has been covered but I haven't been able to find anything relating to it. I've downloaded the beta that supposedly allows me to access my PLAY 1 directly through my SPOTIFY app on my phone rather than the limited SONOS app. However this option doesn't show when I go to select devices? Is the capability available through iphone or is it limited to certain phone/tablet types? Cheers

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ratty
7 years ago
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HeinrichBraaschContributor I
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Spotify Connect: Individual room volume control

Regarding the new beta release which integrates with Spotify Connect... Controlling playback from within Spotify I find it quite long-winded to change the individual volumes of the grouped rooms. To do that I currently need to: (1) From Spotify, click on Devices (2) Click on the room Group "hamburger ..." menu (3) Click on 'Sonos Group Rooms' (which launched Sonos) (4) Click on the icon of the song playing (5) Finally the song menu appears with the combined volume slider (6) Click on slider to get the separate room sliders (7) Change the volume of the required room Am I missing the easier way? Anyway, I'm aware one is limited when developing code from within another's application, so I understand the situation. My suggestion is to at least add the following to speed up the volume setting process ... When clicking on the (see step 3 above), display one more option over and above "Sonos Group Rooms", also display an option called "Set separate room volumes". Thi

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7 years ago
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SprattersContributor I
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Manage Settings are Greyed out although I updated to latest version

My Daughter changed our Deezer Password; when I opened Sonos it wouldn't recognise the Deezer Account, so I decided to uninstall and reinstall Deezer. I couldn't as all of the items under the manage settings bar were greyed out. I read that the best thing to do is to look for and install updates, which I did. However the Manage settings are still greyed out. I am now stuck. Can anyone help me please?

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ratty
7 years ago
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DerekWilliamsUKContributor I
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Room Speaker Grouping Problems...

Hi. I have 3 Sonos Play:1 speakers, each located in different rooms around the house. I like to run my system with a 3 speakers/rooms grouped together in Party Mode. This works fine most of the time, but whenever i have a network problem with my Virgin Media UK Superhub Router, the Sonos system fails to start when the Play button is pushed on any of the speakers - i get the dreaded red LED light flashing. It is easy to fix this by going to any of the controller Apps that i have (IOS, Android & Winsows PC) and 're-grouping' the rooms/speakers, then selecting the chosen media to play again (usually a Tune-In radio station). So, my question is, why does the Sonos system 'ungroup' my rooms/speakers whenever my incoming broadband fails or the router is rebooted? I can recreate the problem every time. Thanks for any assistance.

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ratty
7 years ago
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donald6Contributor I
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linux users

Are there users of SONOS with LINUX (Debian , Ubunto , Mint or others) ? Is it possible to use LINUX with SONOS?

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dirac
7 years ago
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JP_DubsContributor I
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Where did my Room Settings go?

All of a sudden the room settings option in the settings menu has disappeared from my app. I can no longer do any adjusts to my room audio.

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7 years ago
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Ryan_63Contributor I
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Unable to downgrade system from beta

I am unable to remove my system from the beta. after I leave the beta program and reinstall the windows controller application, the software update states there is an update to the beta program that needs to be installed.

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AllenA
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Sonos beta update for Android failure

Does anyone know why the beta update fails to generate the email containing the URL to download the update for the latest build. Sonos don't seem to know.

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RydensTrending Lyricist I
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How to leave Private Beta

Hi,trying to leave Private Beta to try Public beta of the new controller, but no way to do so? Help Cheers Daivd

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