Controllers and Music services

how do i set up sonos to play my favorites from Spotify?

What really pisses me off about this S1 S2 thing is that it is absolutely possible to make later technology work with the older technology. The new units have more memory and faster processors so can easily deal with the old requirement.I recently purchased a sonos roam, what a load of bollocks to set it up, you need to set up a new system and your old kit won't work. it is so easy for sonos to provide the old functionality on new tech they just want to squeeze their customers. 

Ok - I am new to sonos and am quite confused by groups. My setup: I have a stereo pair in my kitchen, and then an Arc in my living room. I currently have two room choices when I want to play music: “Kitchen” and “TV Room.” I would like to have a third choice: both. I could name this “Downstairs” or “All speakers.” I would like it so that when I press this “room” they all play. I’m very confused why this isn’t an option. When I go to settings, groups is greyed out, and it says it’s not available to me because I have two rooms. But I’m confused becuase I would like a group that includes both rooms. I’ve read online that there should be an “everywhere” group but I cannot find that. When I pull up the groupings, there is no such button. This all seems very illogical to me and I am getting frustrated. Thanks. 

Hi,I am new to the Sonos ecosystem and got my second speaker today. I have an era 300 in my living room and the move in my bedroom. I exclusively use the Spotify app to play music.  What I would like to do:When playing music, I would like to either play in one of the rooms or both at that same time.  The issue I'm facing:when I tried to group the speakers, the option was greyed out and says you need 3+ rooms to do so. I saw in some posts a reference to automatic "everywhere" group, but that is not visible in Spotify. There was a workaround posted on one thread where you can use the three dots option next to the speaker in Spotify and it redirects you to the Sonos app's grouping feature where you can create a group with two speaker. Unfortunately, when you do this, the original single speaker that was visible will be replaced in Spotify with the new group (this means I can no longer only select that speaker). Each time I need to play everywhere I can go through these steps, and undo it

Hey there,where can I find a full list of all the Sonos Radio HD stations, e.g. Sunset Fuzz, Cocktail Hour etc.There used to be a website with all the stations and the option to listen to a preview of the station, apparently it is gone. Thank you! 

I have a problem with playing Music from my Yousee app.it is saying missing access. Have anybody this problem?Rene

Hey Sonos,  I have followed many threads on this topic.   The default volume by source I understand is not feasible with so many variables.  Let’s simply start with a default “start up” volume.   No matter the source it’s reasonable to assume that most handle more volume at night than in the morning.  Every morning I sit down with coffee, ask SVC to play something morningish and get blasted until I ask SVC to turn it down.  Please give us the option when we fire our system up to turn the volume up not down if needed.  

Hi,Over 6 months ago, I posted this thread about this same topic: Trueplay support on iPad Air 4 + other recent devices | Sonos CommunitySince that time, this feature has been listed as “coming soon” but with no further news: Article Detail (sonos.com)Is there an actual ETA? Thanks for any information you can provide. Rant Time:Does over 6 months after the device’s release date qualify as “soon”? What about when the next iPhone model inevitably releases a few months from now? Is that also going to take multiple months or years to be supported as well?It’s already ridiculous that this feature isn’t supported on Android devices to begin with (you can’t do a cross section of the most popular models among customers?), but now it feels like newer Apple devices are also being ignored as well.Better yet, why hasn’t Sonos hasn’t just started shipping a separate pre-calibrated mic that lets anyone do TruePlay tuning without the need for specific third party devices?

Is there a feature to speed up play? This is a useful and common feature on other podcasts and audiobook apps.

Sonos S1 Controller hangs at startup on my Mac.  Wondering if there is a solution that does not involve disabling NordVPN.Here is stack trace, seems to be the same as this Sonos S2 issue that was reported for a different VPN product, Analysis of sampling Sonos S1 Controller (pid 22295) every 1 millisecondProcess: Sonos S1 Controller [22295]Path: /Applications/Sonos S1 Controller.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos S1 ControllerLoad Address: 0x10f1c5000Identifier: com.sonos.macControllerVersion: 57.14.37030Code Type: X86-64Platform: macOSParent Process: ??? [1]Date/Time: 2023-08-26 12:44:22.693 -0700Launch Time: 2023-08-26 12:43:57.445 -0700OS Version: macOS 11.7.2 (20G1020)Report Version: 7Analysis Tool: /usr/bin/samplePhysical footprint: 96.8MPhysical footprint (peak): 96.8M----Call graph: 7920 Thread_922607 DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread (serial) + 7920 start (in libdyld.dylib) + 1 [0x7fff2032df3d]

Some providers services such as Tidal provide 24 bit support but Sonos don’t implement it.It appears that currently Sonos only provides 24 bit support for Amazon Music services, when will other suppliers be supported?

How would I play my Chirp audiobooks from iPhone to Sonos? (I only saw an answer regarding non-Apple products.)

I have a lot of Sonos speakers throughout my house, and it would be nice to be able to use a single volume control for all speakers at once. This is not currently practical, because each speaker has its own relative volume profile that depends both on the speaker type and on other factors, such as room size and placement.It would be great to be able to spend some time creating snapshots of various volume settings, so that all the speakers have the same relative volume throughout the house, and then for the Sonos app to create volume curves from those snapshots. I think this could be done pretty easily with just three snapshots, one for low volume, another for medium volume, another for high volume. Then, the app would calculate volume curves for each speaker, at which point you should be able to control the volume for all speakers at once with a single slider/knob/etc, with the relative volume of each speaker remaining consistent at all times.I really can't imagine a scenario where peo

Why does Sonos keep closing this topic? We need a fix for this. Every time I update Sonos Controller 1 it restarts my Windows 10 PC without any warning. After it has done this, the update runs and every thing is fine. It is very irritating and without a prompt about a restart you could lose any unsaved work.

Do the various SONOS RADIO channels have corresponding playlist available to listeners

Anytime I attempt to play a podcast through YouTube Music, I receive the error "Unable to play (podcast) - the connection to YouTube Music was lost." I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting the service but with no luck. I'm able to play music, just no podcasts... Anyone else experiencing this?  Thanks!

The Sonos Speaker does not support bluetooth because there are losses. however, there must be protocol and software(device drivers or middle ware) which should be able to connect the five as an output speaker from my PC or phone.I do not need to connect a external device to do the same.Buying such luxury speaker should come with atleast these features or atleast allow the community to develop such software.

I have been told that I can no longer update my system or add products to my existing system because my iPhone operating system is too old. The mesons as follows: The OS on this mobile device is no longer Supported. Which basically means I have to get a new phone if I want to receive sonos updates!!

I have updated to S2 app and added a move speaker to the 3 Sonos 1s, 1 Sonos 3, play bar and sub . The S2 app keeps dropping the speakers and I can’t see them on app, they will then re appear only to be dropped again later, this is very annoying. I have a play 5 also which now operates on a S1 controller on the same WiFi network and this seems to be operating ok. Are there fixes planned to be made to the S2 controller app as it seems very unstable or should I revert all speakers back to S1 controller if that’s possible?  

Is there a chance of implementing a feature for access control on the Sonos Amp so that individuals can only access it with permission granted by you?

Hi i am new to the forum and have a question about listening to talking books. We both have the app on our phones logged in via one account and my wife listens to music and i want to mostly listen to talking books but music as well. The great majority of our content both music and books is stored on our NAS server in separate folders. In the App there is only one music library so books and music get mixed up when looking in Albums or artists etc. I know you can access the folders separately within the music library but then the search by folder/artists etc is not so good and you have more menus to get through.Does anybody have a solution for this? or would a development request to Sonos be the best way to go? Thanks

I couldn’t find new updates to this topic within about the last year so I am throwing this out there again for an update.  What music streaming services stream/play in lossless through Sonos?  If not answered in the first question, does Apple Music stream/play in lossless through Sonos?  Thank you.

I have multiple Sonos amps all connected to router via ethernet (and 1gb fiber internet service), and all music services I use work more or less flawlessly except Amazon Prime Unlimited HD which drops out/pauses/stutters frequently IF I START AN AMAZON PLAYLIST FROM WITHIN THE SONOS APP.  However, Amazon music plays perfectly on Sonos IF AND ONLY IF I either start Amazon on Sonos via alexa oir by aircasting from the Amazon music app from my phone.  But if I try to play anything from Amazon Music Unlimited via the Sonos app, it will not work.  Any suggestions?

The Sonos app indicated that I'm reaching the limit of albums I can add to "My Sonos".  Where did this limit come from,  what is it, and how can I save more albums?   It's not like I have many saved as it is - maybe 20 or so.

I pay for Soundtrack Your Brand and when I complained to them about how their Scheduling service doesn’t work with Sonos, and I have to use Sonos Alarms instead, I was told that they have problems with features on Sonos because Sonos doesn't support volume normalization for playlists. Sonos Alarms are not ideal, as they immediately cut off any song that is playing and then slowly start the new station listed per the alarm with the sound slowly moving to the designated volume. This is pretty jarring in the middle of service. The Alarms are made necessary because Sonos doesn't allow Soundtrack to play without using the Shuffle option, and when shuffling Soundtrack itself uses an algorithm for the shuffle so you end up hearing the same song multiple times, not matter how long the playlist is. It feels like all the features of Soundtrack are being limited because Sonos has its own commercial music competitor now, which is a real shame.