The app should open with the last room you used it with. Does it not work like that with you?

I must say I’ve never felt the need for such extensive tinkering as you seem to feel is necessary. Is your system set up right?

Thank you for the prompt response.

The short answer is yes my system is configured properly. But honestly what is there to configure when music is playing in my living room, no other rooms are active and every time I open the app displays a different group and not the active one. By the way the active one is the one I started playing music to. Perhaps it's a problem with Spotify connect because this is how I normally start the music. But there is no excuse when the TV is active, to display the line in from my switched off PC.

The longer answer to 'is your system set up correctly', which is obviously abstract and ambiguous:

- I have reset the full system several times last few months. 

- I have uninstalled, clear the cache and data for the app more times that I can remember.

- I have separated my Wi-Fi signal between 5 and 2.4 simply to troubleshoot earlier Sonos connectivity issues. 

- I have read as much info as possible in Reddit, Sonos community and whatever other resource available to check configuration possibilities to my setup which is arc, gen 3 and era300 satellites. Additionally I have two era 300 in 2 other rooms. And obviously listening to the wire for improvements that slowly come following the new app situation.

This is the second time I think I am writing/starting a topic. Because I was hoping for an answer as to whether the issue will be fixed. According to what you say there is no issue really. I disagree, but I have been wrong before; hence please feel free to suggest additional setup action I could perform.

Nevertheless, my requirement to access settings faster is not something I find unreasonable. I find myself most of the day having to click through screens and make it to the surround equalizer and sub settings every time I switch from music to movies.

The need for different settings in those two situations is not something I would call extensive tinkering. For me is a rather basic need. If I leave my sub to +7 in a 4K movie they will kick me out from my apartment in less than a week. It even bothers me. 

You mean that you keep the same settings no matter what type of music you listen to? Further do you actually keep the same settings for movies and music?

I cannot, a sub 30 hertz trap tune and Hungarian rhapsodies require different settings. 

I'm not certain if people will even bother reading through my rambling, but in case you do and you have some constructive feedback then please let me know. 

Thanx in advance

As I stated above the app displays the room last you last used it with, not the active room. Not that unreasonable, if you ask me. My system consists of five rooms that a used by different family manners, often at the same time. How would the system/the app know which in to display?

My question about the configuration of your set up was geared more towards your preference to use different settings for different sources. I used Trueplay for my set up and for me there’s no need to ever touch the settings again - my premise is that this resembles the sound the director/producer the most. You are of course free to think otherwise.

​@Nyxteridas,

If you use an Apple iOS device as your controller, then maybe checkout the Soro (3rd party) App for Sonos products - it acts as a plug-in and allows the creation of Apple iOS shortcuts to adjust a room EQ (and ‘many’ other) settings that can be saved as a type of profile, which in turn can be saved and linked to an icon on the mobile device Home-screen, or operated via the iOS control centre or via a widget.

Simply select such a created icon to adjust the Sonos Room EQ settings with a single ‘click’ without even opening the Sonos App. See example screenshots attached.

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated to the Soro App, other than I use it myself. There is a slight learning curve to setup the shortcuts. It is relatively easy to use and provides a lot of useful features to use with Sonos and works well alongside the new Sonos App.

HTH

Thank you for the feedback, you gave me enough to think about. I don't have your use cases so I never even thought about it (to my disdain). I have to agree in a multi-user and multi room environment, what I ask is pretty much nonsense.

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately I don't use apple products. In the unlikely case that I do in the future, I will consider your recommendation

I did some testing following feedback in this thread. It took me some time to find out the root cause, which is: not being able to group rooms. The option is grayed out, so I completely missed it in the new app. And I only did it once in the old one, so I forgot about it.

In a multi-room setup where multiple users utilize speakers, the system works as it should and reported by ​@106rallye.

When you have a single room with one or many users, it works correctly too.  If you start streaming using Spotify connect and then you open Sonos app it will display the current activity as I expected. Switching between TV and music also works as I remember.

I am a single user with multiple rooms. I grouped up all rooms and treated the whole apartment as one unit. However the grouping behavior is an assumption as I couldn't test it and confirm.

Grouping also works as expected. I just forgot to plug all rooms after testing.

In the end, the undesired behavior was caused by Ungroup on Autoplay, which is available in a room with a tv (arc/beam) 

It seems that when you select (checkbox) multiple rooms to play music, it creates a group, but when you uncheck them, the group persists and is still accessible by other activities and Spotify connect.

It feels that when the 'Ungroup on Autoplay' is enabled, and you start the TV activity, the group is destroyed, which also invalidates any activities (or sessions) that use that group.