Since installing the MacOS Golden Gate Beta, the Sonos app will not find the system.
Firewall is off, so the only help in the Sonos app about that is of no effect.
I know the app is vintage anyway, but has anyone worked out how to get out working?
I know everyone will say use the web app, but it’s crap. I want the app and its native experience with notifications etc.
The Sonos App actually works fine on my Mac with MacOS 27 Public Beta 3 (and 4) installed. I just had to start it a couple of times and suddenly MacOS asked for permission for Network access. I use the app every day without any issues. It will be the last MacOS with support for Rosetta, so we’ll see what we can do next year.
WTF can’t Sonos fix this in the mac app?? Makes me want to change my entire 12 sonos device expensive audio systems next time I need to add or upgrade something
There’s a solution: Launch sonos app from terminal to connect to existing system.
open Terminal and run:
defaults read /Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/Info CFBundleExecutable
That tells us the exact executable name rather than guessing it.
If it returns something like:
Sonos
then run:
"/Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos"
Keep that Terminal window open and see Connect to Existing System suddenly finds your Sonos setup.
Later you can launch the app from terminal like this and close the terminal:
nohup "/Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos" >/dev/null 2>&1 & disown
Thanks for the workaround!!
The Mac app was ‘retired’ from active development, a long time ago. You should also refer to this FAQ:
https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/supported-features-in-the-sonos-desktop-app
Yep, aware of that, but they still offer it as a download and should at least do a maintenance update for Golden Gate issues. It works fine and looks fine, so no huge development needed, if it would only open in GoldenGate without the terminal workaround to find the network. They recently did one fro Apple Silicone to get rid of Rosetta, so they could easily fix this.
It’s hard for any developer to chase the issues in a beta. Speaking as a former Windows, iOS , and Android developer.
We were lucky on occasion to receive the valuable gold release before it went out, but the number of changes in a beta made it not profitable to spend time ensuring the software worked on it.
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