Controllers and Music services

Can users can the functionality to set an alarm for a group of speakers?  For instance I have a group called morning that includes my bedroom and bathroom speakers. It would be great for them to play together at a set time.  The current configuration is not functional. I would have to check daily to make sure the speakers were last played together for the alarm to work as wanted. This has been a long standing issue and a widely requested feature for at least 2 years. 

I'm thinking of upgrading my phone. Is there a chance that the App works better on a newer device?

I am requesting that Sonos restore the last.fm scrobbling functionality. I have been using this service since 2008. 

Hi everyone! I am not familiar with the new Sonos version.How can I find music by styles or song names, as well as radio stations by country?

I just upgraded to a 2025 MacBook Air running Sequoia, and all of a sudden, the Sonos App is not available. It’s still on my older laptop, but I’d like to be able to control it from my new machine that I’ll be using most of the time. Any thoughts? I could download some third party app, but those have been a hassle in the past. The app is still fine on my iPhone fwiw.  thanks! 

Has any iOS app update removed the streaming quality in the app?if so, WHY??!!! Now I don’t know if the current song is being played using Dolby atmos or regular stereo!

It’s time that the software assists users with large local libraries . I know there are some workarounds, but sometimes I just want to browse  and I don’t want or need to begin the browsing at the top of a very long list. Sure searching for something is easy when you know what you want, but if you feel like a bit of a flick through your collection, Sonos has made it impossible. Frankly I think users deserve better after the amounts of money they have spent on their equipment.

I’ve seen similar questions before but no actual solution. S1 system  I’m trying to set up a new alarm to wake up with a specific radio station. I have other alarms in my home with that radio station, so it exists and works. I can find the radio station easily in a normal search and it’s added to Sonos Favorites. Bit when adding an alarm, I can’t select from favourites, only from some Byzantine menu of radio genres or by location which doesn’t show up my radio station in any obvious location (Smooth Hampshire in the UK, as it happens). Is there any way to find out where a radio station that Sonos knows about in ‘normal search’ is buried in the genre/location menu? Or some way to select a radio from Sonos favorites? Or copy an existing alarm and just change the room? Anything….?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/a-profound-mistake-sonos-ceo-talks-about-its-broken-app-and-why-its-been-so-hard-to-fix/

This is sooo frustrating!  For quite  few months now, I lost anything past the letter Q nor can I add anything back in my Sonos Favorites.  I have tried many things, with no luck. The crazy part is, I found those favorites in the Tunein app under my radio shows and my radio stations!  And if that were not strange enough, the Iheart app is listed under the Tunein app too!!!!  Nobody at Sonos seems to give a damn that their long time loyal supporters of their products cannot enjoy certain features they once could. WHERE ARE YOU SONOS SUPPORT!!!!!

When I’m already playing music on a Sonos speaker and add another one or a whole group, there is no option to quickly adjust/sync the volume for all speakers to the same level. I always have to manually adjust the volume in order to have the same volume on all speakers. I know that there used to be a function in Sonos app to slide to the left to mute them all an slide back to the desired volume in order to sync them all, but this does not work with the new app. There are other apps available for Apple Watch and Mac which support this setting. How can I sync the volume with the new Sonos app? Or please bring back this feature.

Hi,I created a couple of zones using SONOS Era100 Pro speakers. It seems in this configuration, it does not allow a subwoofer to be added. Only when i change a Zone to a room, can I link the sub. Ie, a room with a singe speaker or speaker pair. Is this correct? Is this a limitation at the moment?

Got just a simple question.Latest app iOS version… how does Sonos developers continue to screw crap up?  Once again a new update, once again connections screwed up.  Rinse repeat.   sincerely, Irritated user

Hi,Reading around it seems last.fm functionality was retired around a year ago. However my scrobbles had been working just fine until the very most recent app update. Now it only scrobbles a small amount, seemingly at random. Very disappointing, but since there hadn't been any update that I can see on these forums, are the team at Sonos looking at restoring last.fm functionality?The app is close to being as it was (though still no ability to create new Sonos playlists on the app, only edit existing ones) but this is a major loss.In the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions to enable scrobbling (simple scrobbler isn't working for me, even with the Sonos player ticked) I'd appreciate it.

This is worth a read for anyone who still has problems and is still checking the community in the hope that things will improve.https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/12/sonos-ceo-says-the-company-didnt-understand-the-real-world/I’m still not sure that they get how frustrating their negligence has been for some users but it looks like they are aiming to get every feature back in this financial year so end of September 2025. This detail may be in one of the other links reporting his comments. 

Room designations in the app do not stay fixed. How to fix?

Hello Community MembersThis is a step by step visual tutorial on how to set an Alarm with Music  (in the Sonos App) to wake up to; or as reminder, using your favorite tune. Chimes are set by default.  There are a few assumptions made. Such as that you’ve already added at least one (1) music service. This guide is very granular meaning although there are eighteen (18) steps listed many are intuitive. However, rather than leave anything to chance all steps are presented for completeness.  One of the steps involves selecting a music station of your choice. It can be a “Sonos Favorite” you've already set up in the app; or you can use the “Search” feature to select a station, genre, song or artist.  If you already have a music station set under Sonos Favorites; that you’d like to use as an alarm, you can skip to Step 8.  At the end of this tutorial there are also steps on how to “delete” an alarm.  It is hoped that you find this tutorial useful and that it enhances your enjoyment of Sonos.D

I have my music stored as flac files. All the hints to stop fragmentation of compilation albums (multiple artists on the one album) point to using id3v2 tags. Flac files do not support id3 tags but rather use vorbis format tagging. Does the Sonos infrastructure support vorbis tagging. I saw that the speakers needed update to support the “Album Artist” (albumartist) tag . For exampleI have “1000 Years of Classical Music” 8 CD set. On Sonos this equates to 74 “albums”. I have a number of albums from Bluesfest. If the album has 18-20 artist Sonos will display it as 18-20 separate albums ?. My Music Library is over 16000 tracks consuming over 450Gb. Uncompressed it is over 800Gb.

Title.Also the ability to see/control music from the notification area and lock screen.

The Sonos S2 (and S1) app on macOS crashed instantly at launch. This issue was previously raised by ​@Dikon:I had a similar bugreport stating:Error Formulating Crash Report: dyld_process_snapshot_get_shared_cache failed ChatGPT suggested that rosetta 2 runtime was failing.Rosetta Runtime Crash:The crash occurs in the Rosetta runtime itself (/usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime), which means the Intel (x86_64) version of the Sonos app failed to launch correctly through Rosetta. If rosetta 2 was broken I should try to install/verify the rosetta installation with the following command:/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-licenseIn my terminal it printed the following lines:2025-05-02 21:54:08.736 softwareupdate[34584:868348] Package Authoring Error: 072-08244: Package reference com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto is missing installKBytes attributeInstall of Rosetta 2 finished successfully I am sure Rosetta 2 was already installed on my mac, but it did fix the broken runtime. The app

I have been using Sonos controller to play my iTunes playlists on Sonos.  I’ve been using it for over two years.  Suddenly only a handful of old playlists (some not even on iTunes at this time)  are showing in Sonos music library.  None of my recent playlists show up when I update the music library.  After looking for solutions, I tried to export the .xml file for the playlist BUT the .xml files are now showing up as Microsoft Edge html files.  Is that why Sonos does not recognize them???  The path to the iTunes music folder is correct but the playlist and library files in that folder are html not xml.  If I open the file in notepad it looks like the correct .xml file but will not save as an xml file.  Is there anyway to fix this and get my playlists back on Sonos???  Thanks

When I enter my authorisation code it just stays on the page. 

Hello, since the new update I can not create or save alarms.I use an iphone 14 pro max with the newest app updateand an old iphone 7 plus with an outdated app. I onlöy can add/update it on an outdated app (iphone 7plus) now...From the current app and main device (iphone 14 pro max) I can not edit or save it.Still can not create or save on both devices.

Hi guys. How come when i play music straight from say, apple music it seems alot quieter than if i play through the sonos app/apple music. I always control my music through sonos app due to this. Also will there ever be an addition to the app to allow me to control music with the sonos ace, just as i do with the rest of my products. 

I have S2 Controller Version 16.1 build 78151030 on my iPad. When I use the app on my iPad, there appears a message that the iOS version on my iPad is “no longer supported”. However, it works perfectly. That’s good. On my Mac, I have S2 Controller Version: 16.6 build 83161210. When I attempt to use the app on my Mac, I does not work, but demands that I check for updates. I do not want to update on my Mac because of a long history of Sonos updates causing my system to fail and requiring laborious troubleshooting and repair.How can I get my Sonos S2 controller on my Mac to work again without risking the failure of my existing Sonos system?Thanks for helping if you can.