Controllers and Music services

After years paying for Spotify, and having flirted with Apple Music for years as well, and abjuring Pandora, I’ve finally decided that YouTube Music does by far the best job of curating songs for me based on just a little bit of criteria. In short, YouTube Music is the coolest. And yet as has been well noted by other commenters, Sonos completely sharts the bed when it comes to software integration with YTM. Don’t know about others but I can get mine to do a sum total of zero functioning, as far as YTM is concerned. It honestly feels to me like there was some spat between programmers or companies that resulted in a what is essentially a big eff you from one to the other, or a detente perhaps, where someone pissed someone off or had a huge ideological difference of opinion, words were said and then  everyone walked away from the conference room table, and left to sit there what is basically a 1/8th developed integration option that does nothing but get people angry. How else can you expl

Just purchased a 10.0 tablet anything I need to know before I switch app from my phone to my new tablet?

Hi Everyone! Been looking for months to find an answer and figured it’s time to ask the community. Here is my situation: I’ve got 2 older amps (connect:amp and a ZP100) that each run a pair of Klipsch 650-SM ROCK SPEAKERS (FYI- each rock speaker is true dual speakers). These run on the S1 app since the older amps don’t support S2. My entire house is S2 and I’ve come to a point that I either need to downgrade all my speakers in the house to S1 or figure out a way to bring my outdoor speakers into the S2 world. Would I be able to purchase 1 Port and use it for both older amps? While they’re currently set up in 2 outdoor zones, one zone would be fine. Or do I need to bite the bullet and purchase 2 new Sonos Amps? Any other ways to make it work without dropping $1k+? Thanks in advance! 

Hi, updated to 14.2 today and suddenly noticed that songs with special characters in the filename or title (have not investigated in depth yet) won't be played from the local library.I remember this problem from 13.1 and it was fixed in 13.3.Anyone else experiencing this?Really frustrating this happening again. EDIT: Seems to work now after a couple hours. Did some rescans before, so not sure what changed things. Will observe.

Had to start a new topic because the “best answer” fails to address the question and the topic has been closed for further comment. (Side note: how does a “best answer” literally start with “I do not understand what you are saying”?) Anyway, I’m trying to set alarms to play music in two rooms at a specific, recurring time.1. When creating an alarm, the Rooms menu allows individual rooms to be selected, and there is also an option to “Include Grouped Rooms”.2. I can toggle “Include Grouped Rooms” but nothing new appears.3. I then go to system settings, where “Groups” is greyed out, and it says “This feature is available on systems with three or more rooms.”4. I have two speakers, which are in separate rooms, and which I commonly group and un-group, depending on who is in each room, so leaving them grouped at all times is not a viable solution, and adding a manual routine to my evening (remembering to open the Sonos app to group my speakers before bed) is an obnoxious and likely unsustai

Hi,  how can I listen to radio in deezer instead of tunein where i got some awfull jingle and adverts not needed….  Many peolple ar uset with this, when will you solve the problem ? Pierre

hey all, i have had the same setup for years a play five or play one in every room and a sonos connect to control it all. I recently added a playbar and ive been told i dont need the connect any longer. does the playbar take over as master ?note all speakers are wireless but the connect is wired thanks !

Has anybody experienced problems with their desktop app after updating macOS to 12.3.1?when I open the app I get the spinning beachball of death and message that it’s searching for my sonos system. Every thing was fine until this update, and my iOS apps work fine on phone and iPad. My system has both wired and wireless components , but nothing shows up on the desktop app. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app but when I click on join existing system the veachball e turns and will spin to the end of time if I let it.

Other than the quality of sound and assortment of apps, what real services are provided for listeners? It’s a shame the list does not go on, and simply ends there. It’s a product that doesn’t allow use without Wi-Fi and doesn’t have an option for headphones. I’m proud to have persuaded fellow friend from indulging in the same misadventures I have when it comes to buying constrained speakers. Why have rules or limitations on sound?

How can I listen to Qboz in Sonos in Brazil?

Hi guys, I am a fan of both Sonos and Soundtrackyourbrand. One of the cool features in SYB is the smooth scheduling option. any chance to see this working when playing through the Somos app? Thanks Toller

Yandex Music got disabled in the Sonos app and turned my Sonos devices into bricks. No announcements, nothing...just a message that the service is no longer available.I understand that you want to support Ukraine. I get it and there are lots of better ways to do it,  but that has nothing to do with music. Yandex wasn’t even sanctioned by EU nor US.I loved sound of Sonos from the first time i heard it and i even purchased the Beam without checking that it can’t work over wi-fi/bluetooth.

I finally found a work around for playing music on my android phone on Sonos speakers.  I was dissatisfied with using the Sonos app because: 1) Sonos does not sort folders or artists alphabetically (making it extremely difficult to locate a particular artist among 600+); and 2) the Sonos equalizer is too simple (one knob for bass - one knob for treble). The solution is remarkably simple: install the  BubbleUPNP and cast your favorite android mp3 player app, podcast app, or other android audio stream.  I have seen numerous forum inquiries about this issue, but none of the responses have descibed this simple solution. I am so delighted that I can now play music from my phone to Sonos speakers with total ease. 

Playlists are no longer showing up on the My Sonos tab of the app. Yet I can add tracks to my playlists and they all show up in that dialogue. How do I get playlist back on the My sonos tab?

My system works fine, hardware and Sonos apps (everything is up to date), except this notice/message appears now and then very briefly when Sonos app/controller on my Windows 10 computer is started: "You need to set up at least one Sonos speaker to get the music started. Open the Sonos app on a mobile device to continue". Two buttons: "Get the mobile app" and "More options" It disappears very fast and the Sonos controller opens normally as usual and works fine. Is something wrong?

Is it chuffing possible to have a clear and clean answer from Sonos tech or managers to understand WHY it is not possible to control SONOS volume with Mac keyboard keys but you have to go through several more clicks to invoke the Sonos controller????? What is the heck with you Sonos guys… why don’t you make it possible like it was on older systems??? I have checked the forums and you have always found a sneaky way not to plainly answer.I think it is about time you put the money where your mouth is!!! I am utterly annoyed.

I downloaded above app to my IPad.  Went to Browse/clicked on YouTubeMusic.  Screen shows up says no selections are available.   How do I add a selection to you tube music part of the Sonos App? 

Is there any use in adjusting speaker distance after trueplay? To be able to adjust the speaker distance you have to turn trueplay off, then do the adjustments, for so turning the trueplay back on. But after this is done, the speaker distance is grayed out. So I wonder if doing it this way will effect the sound, or are you just back to your original truplay distance?

I notice recently when I  change the volume My screen  on my iPad or iPhone dim slightly for a few brief seconds. Is that normal or if I done something wrong. Thank you

My wife has the S1 app on her Ipad and Iphone and have the S1 app on my Android phone and also on my Windows laptop. The app only works on my Windows laptop, not on any of our other devices.We have gotten the REALLY annoying requests to upgrade to the S2 app when opening our S1 app. We have declined because we know the S2 app is not compatible with our speakers. What is happening now is the S1 app loads but then tells me all of my speakers are incompatible and wants me to update to the S1 app (which I am currently using), then a Sonos update screen pops up with the option to update, I select update and it looks like it is updating, then I get a Update Problem screen, and an option to try again which just puts me in an endless loop.Is this an app problem or is Sonos not supporting the older speakers any longer? Is my only option to download an unapproved controller app from Play Store?Also, I have tried rebooting the speakers and router. It didn’t work.

We have a large investment in our Sonos system, and use the S2 apps on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS (all current OS versions), With the exception of bug fixes and firmware updates, I haven’t seen a single user interface update since its release. Note that while we have an AppleTV (and 3 Apple Watches), we never use either to control Sonos, so I’m not looking for apps on those OSs - just updates to iOS would be sufficient though sync’ing the UI in MacOS and iOS would be very much appreciated.Given Sonos’s premium market positioning (and cost), I expect that at a minimum there would be updates and improvements to the UI, making it more current and better organized like other apps and systems. At least some functionality improvements should be included as well. The app is completely static from the user standpoint. Are there any plans or projects in the works to update the app’s UI and features? If so, can you provide details as to some of the possible changes as well as rough timeline? I’m consi

All of a sudden my controller on my iPhone as well as my pc do not control my sonos system . I have unplugged  all 9 sonos products, rebooted so many times and it still is working intermittently if at all. It is getting frustrating. Do you have a solution?  

How to stream Amazon Music 360 Reality Audio on Sonos system? I am trying to do so via Amazon Music app but 360 option is not available.Does Sonos even support it?  

Am I the only new user who thinks that Sonos speakers will not work with Youtube is something I should have known about before I wasted my money on the damn thing?

I have the track showing from My Cloud but not sure how to shuffle tracks as I could with old NAS