Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements
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So on the old ask forum wishlist items would get lost. Thought I would post a topic where people could vote their biggest wish for controller software improvements.
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I would like a 'jukebox' mode for the controller app - so that the default action on pressing a song is to add it to the end of current play queue, rather than obliterate the current play queue. This is how the app used to work ,and it was great. In fact, it was one of the little details that made Sonos a nice system to use. I've always hated how other apps like Spotify worked in this regard.
Userlevel 7
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Not really with the new version of the controller. You will see you can click on a song and it will add that song and all to follow. You will also see within the music selection screen the song playing. It is very similar to what you see with most apps.
I personally don't like it as I like utilizing the queue. But you seem to be one that would like the new method. Try it out ignoring the queue screen and you will see what I mean.
Also - if Spotify user they just went to public beta with method to control sonos directly from the Spotify app.
I personally don't like it as I like utilizing the queue. But you seem to be one that would like the new method. Try it out ignoring the queue screen and you will see what I mean.
Also - if Spotify user they just went to public beta with method to control sonos directly from the Spotify app.
Is that an actual thing? I'd have thought the queue is pretty fundamental to how sonos works?
Userlevel 7
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You seem the type that would like the new click on song play from here method notnusing queue at all.
•••PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME ORGANISE THE QUEUE!!•••
Why isn't there a way to organise the queue by Artist, Album, Song etc.?
I love Sonos, but I want to be able to dump my entire music library in the queue and listen to it just like I used to on iTunes - by picking an artist or a genre, or by shuffling and re-discovering an old gem - I can't do that anymore. Instead, everything is in different places and I need to click about 10 things to find anything.
Admittedly, you'd need more space dedicated to the queue to accommodate that, but personally i'm fine with losing the space elsewhere, most of which isn't doing much anyway.
Am I being naive? Is there a reason this can't be done?
Why isn't there a way to organise the queue by Artist, Album, Song etc.?
I love Sonos, but I want to be able to dump my entire music library in the queue and listen to it just like I used to on iTunes - by picking an artist or a genre, or by shuffling and re-discovering an old gem - I can't do that anymore. Instead, everything is in different places and I need to click about 10 things to find anything.
Admittedly, you'd need more space dedicated to the queue to accommodate that, but personally i'm fine with losing the space elsewhere, most of which isn't doing much anyway.
Am I being naive? Is there a reason this can't be done?
Being able to save the playlist I create on the device (mobile) my music is stored on.
Having one touch play optional.
Having one touch play optional.
Userlevel 7
+22
When on now playing swipe down - your last music selection screen shows (just like if you hit the down arrow in the top right corner. If you were in Sonos favorites before you will still be there.
Userlevel 4
+8
When in the main Now Playing screen, I'd like to be able to "slide over" the Sonos Favourites menu rather than having to exit the screen to select Favourites.
https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/feature-request-alphabetic-jump-bar-long-lists-such-as-artistalbum-6740470/index1.html#post16037155
By the way, having finally got around to adding my own local music library to Sonos at the weekend, I realized this functionality already exists in the 'Music Library' view. Any ideas why Sonos hasn't carried it forward to other music services, if nothing else for consistency in the user interface?
Dear all,
It is my first comment on this community but I would like to have the option of limited acces for different kind of users.
So I have 2 kids my wife and me and every now and then I have someone clealing the house.
Wo what I would like is this:
I am the admin, so I can do everything.
My wife can also do everything.
My kids can acces the music in their OWN room, not in the one of their brother or sister and not in the room of the parents.
If possible I would also like to add a volume limit to their controller. Because once they are at their sweet 16, I think the volume will go up 🙂.
And if my cleaning lady is in the house, she can have acces to the radio but not to my server. So limited acces to library.
So to summarize:
users profiles
Per user - max volume
per user - set of sonos devices they can use
per user - services they can use.
It is my first comment on this community but I would like to have the option of limited acces for different kind of users.
So I have 2 kids my wife and me and every now and then I have someone clealing the house.
Wo what I would like is this:
I am the admin, so I can do everything.
My wife can also do everything.
My kids can acces the music in their OWN room, not in the one of their brother or sister and not in the room of the parents.
If possible I would also like to add a volume limit to their controller. Because once they are at their sweet 16, I think the volume will go up 🙂.
And if my cleaning lady is in the house, she can have acces to the radio but not to my server. So limited acces to library.
So to summarize:
users profiles
Per user - max volume
per user - set of sonos devices they can use
per user - services they can use.
Can we add the request for alphabetic 'jump bar' when navigating long lists (similar to Apple Music app on iOS) discussed here:
https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/feature-request-alphabetic-jump-bar-long-lists-such-as-artistalbum-6740470/index1.html#post16037155
https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/feature-request-alphabetic-jump-bar-long-lists-such-as-artistalbum-6740470/index1.html#post16037155
Userlevel 7
+22
Yea the new update makes it much more difficult.
Works well for me.
I don't see Sonos having any auto saving of history.
I used to be able to do that with some success (at least enough that over a period of time I could grab what I needed) but since this last update, the queue is always getting wiped out either accidentally or intentionally by someone in my household and listens are nuked before I get the info I need 😕
Userlevel 7
+22
The way I go about it is I always use the queue. As I chose and pick songs I keep adding them to the end of the queue. Then I save the queue with something like October2016 and I have a bunch of sonos playlists which are just record of all the songs I had been listening to and that other friends/guests added as well.
Works well for me.
I don't see Sonos having any auto saving of history.
Works well for me.
I don't see Sonos having any auto saving of history.
I don't know if it's related, but now Spotify is not logging my play history either. If I use Spotify through Sonos, none of my history is logged. So I no longer have a queue history if I accidentally wipe it out, and I no longer have a history in Spotify. This is dreadful for a person in the music business.
I can't rely on keeping my phone in my hand and mark "SAVE" for every stinking track I think I might be interested in down the line when I used to be able to scroll through a history list.
I've taken to running Spotify on mute in parallel on a spare phone in iOS on an IF recipe that logs my history to a spreadsheet in Google drive to capture my listens. It's freaking ridiculous!!!! Bring back the permanent queue.
And I should add, keeping a history of all plays AS LONG AS I WANT UNTIL I PURGE IT should be from ALL SOURCES not just Spotify. One of the beautiful things about Sonos is that it creates an index from all sources: Spotify, Mixcloud, my personal hard drive libraries, Soundcloud, etc, etc......What a wonderful thing to have a list of listens as a master across sources............
Has there been any further response from Sonos on this? (I quickly scanned the thread and haven't seen one). I am DESPERATE to get a log of all my prior plays back.
I don't know if it's related, but now Spotify is not logging my play history either. If I use Spotify through Sonos, none of my history is logged. So I no longer have a queue history if I accidentally wipe it out, and I no longer have a history in Spotify. This is dreadful for a person in the music business.
I can't rely on keeping my phone in my hand and mark "SAVE" for every stinking track I think I might be interested in down the line when I used to be able to scroll through a history list.
I've taken to running Spotify on mute in parallel on a spare phone in iOS on an IF recipe that logs my history to a spreadsheet in Google drive to capture my listens. It's freaking ridiculous!!!! Bring back the permanent queue.
I don't know if it's related, but now Spotify is not logging my play history either. If I use Spotify through Sonos, none of my history is logged. So I no longer have a queue history if I accidentally wipe it out, and I no longer have a history in Spotify. This is dreadful for a person in the music business.
I can't rely on keeping my phone in my hand and mark "SAVE" for every stinking track I think I might be interested in down the line when I used to be able to scroll through a history list.
I've taken to running Spotify on mute in parallel on a spare phone in iOS on an IF recipe that logs my history to a spreadsheet in Google drive to capture my listens. It's freaking ridiculous!!!! Bring back the permanent queue.
Userlevel 2
Adding to above:
Maybe I should call it "browse by album - sorted by artist first"
Currently in browse by artist mode it's not attractive at all. You see a generic gray box to the left of every artists name and a ton of wasted white space to the right and above/below in that row. ...maybe I'm supposed to know how replace that generic gray box but that's all I see at the top level.
So instead of all that wasted space make each row a (perhaps sideways scrollable, or just multi-row) row of album cover thumbnails for that artists. Sure, include artists name above, or let user choose; there's enough space. Or, make it just like the albums view, sorted by artists first then album... so simple.
I understand there's a potential issue where some people just own 1 song from many different artists, or from each album, but it's hardly any less efficient than browsing by artist anyway when that's the case.
In the end it'd be nice if there was a way to distinguish full albums from individual tracks, but understandable if that's not possible since prob dependent on embedded data. But this brings me to the "browse by folder" option already in place, which would be perfect if only the album art was displayed that's within each folder. Takes more user intervention than ideal, but if sorted the way I have my albums sorted on my server within my folder devoted to full albums that'd be perfect
Maybe I should call it "browse by album - sorted by artist first"
Currently in browse by artist mode it's not attractive at all. You see a generic gray box to the left of every artists name and a ton of wasted white space to the right and above/below in that row. ...maybe I'm supposed to know how replace that generic gray box but that's all I see at the top level.
So instead of all that wasted space make each row a (perhaps sideways scrollable, or just multi-row) row of album cover thumbnails for that artists. Sure, include artists name above, or let user choose; there's enough space. Or, make it just like the albums view, sorted by artists first then album... so simple.
I understand there's a potential issue where some people just own 1 song from many different artists, or from each album, but it's hardly any less efficient than browsing by artist anyway when that's the case.
In the end it'd be nice if there was a way to distinguish full albums from individual tracks, but understandable if that's not possible since prob dependent on embedded data. But this brings me to the "browse by folder" option already in place, which would be perfect if only the album art was displayed that's within each folder. Takes more user intervention than ideal, but if sorted the way I have my albums sorted on my server within my folder devoted to full albums that'd be perfect
But which album cover would represent the artist? Would Bruce Springsteen be scruffy, skinny Born to Run with Clarence over his shoulder, shaved and leather clad from Darkness, or would it be his biceps and butt from Born in the USA? 😉
On a side note, I would agree with an artist picture "artist.jpg" in the appropriate folder like you can do for the album art. Using a particular album as the artist pic may just kill the mood if I'm looking to play Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and I get a picture of the Thin White Duke next to Bowies name. God forbid the Kiss with and without makeup scandal!
On a side note, I would agree with an artist picture "artist.jpg" in the appropriate folder like you can do for the album art. Using a particular album as the artist pic may just kill the mood if I'm looking to play Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and I get a picture of the Thin White Duke next to Bowies name. God forbid the Kiss with and without makeup scandal!
Userlevel 2
My biggest wish:
Maybe I'm getting old, but I've wanted this for about 7 years since I first got Sonos.
I would like a browse by artist mode that actually SHOWS THE ALBUM COVERS - just like it does when browsing by album. It is just me? because this is how I always arranged all my CDs, artist->album, and I know the album covers often better than the titlres anyway so it would be MUCH more pleasing to browse this way than any of the current options.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I've wanted this for about 7 years since I first got Sonos.
I would like a browse by artist mode that actually SHOWS THE ALBUM COVERS - just like it does when browsing by album. It is just me? because this is how I always arranged all my CDs, artist->album, and I know the album covers often better than the titlres anyway so it would be MUCH more pleasing to browse this way than any of the current options.
I love my Sonos system but as my eyes get older, I find the text is difficult to read - both size and contrast to background, on all interfaces - computer, tablet, mobile phone. Have I missed a setting somewhere? And trying to navigate the timeline for a song/podcast/audiobook - so difficult to be precise. The ability to lengthen the timeline to gain precision and increase font size would help those of us with ageing eye...... Many thanks.
Userlevel 1
Please add a #playatendofqueue option in addition to Add to End of Queue. "Respect the Queue" made simple.
Allow the user to choose whichever version of software they wish to run on their kit, thereby enabling regression if they so wish.
Feature request: show and filter on the explicit language tag in e.g. Spotify. Much appreciated! Greets from Holland.
Userlevel 7
+22
I guess I need to add toggle to protect queue from deletion and one click play -needs to be added to my wishlist.
Support to play Podcasts from other iPhone podcast manager apps than the default. For instance, I use Overcast.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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