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The new interface is not intuitive in any way. All I’m trying to do is figure out how to pick a speaker, pick a playlist to play on that speaker. It doesn’t seem to be logical at all. The software seems to want to let me add more than one speaker, but how to add a playlist or music from a single artist is NOT obvious. 
 

so what is the logic. Am I supposed to pick some music first and then determine what to put it on? Because none of the other apps I’ve ever used for speakers works that way. I pick a speaker and then I pick the music to go on that speaker.  
 

I’ve been using another app to pretty much do most of what I wanna do but unfortunately, they do not have a sleep timer. Every time I try to go to Sonos app I revert back to the third-party app and then when I go to the Sonos app, the music is playing on the speaker I want and I go set the sleep timer. It’s got awful.

 

Please, if someone can help me understand the design logic, it would be greatly appreciated. 
thanks,

DMW

Pre-Sonos:

Physically go to room you want to listen to music, turn on the Amp, turn on CD player, select the source on the Amp, select the CD, insert CD, press play.

Sonos App:

Swipe up, select the speaker (room), tap the favourite/Pinned Collection you want to play, press play.

 

The App seems to follow the same logic, ie go to the room first, then select the music?

Tap the three dots ‘...’ in now playing screen for more options, and select sleep timer.

Thanks for this. I get what you’re saying, but if I have music playing on a speaker and I want to change it, it sometimes doesn’t work. If I’m trying to switch from one album to another in favorites, it seems to work.  If I try to do the same thing with playlists, it does not. The playlist I’m referring to here were created inside of Sonos not imported. 

 If I go to my third-party app, I can go to a new album or a new playlist (in favorites), tell it to replace the queue and boom it’s done.  If I go back to the Sonos software from the third-party, Sonos will see the new playlist playing and has no problems. But the Sonos software cannot convert between one playlist to another.


If you’ve got any suggestions, I’d appreciate it. Thanks for your help.

DMW

Thanks for this. I get what you’re saying, but if I have music playing on a speaker and I want to change it, it sometimes doesn’t work. If I’m trying to switch from one album to another in favorites, it seems to work.  If I try to do the same thing with playlists, it does not. The playlist I’m referring to here were created inside of Sonos not imported. 

 If I go to my third-party app, I can go to a new album or a new playlist (in favorites), tell it to replace the queue and boom it’s done.  If I go back to the Sonos software from the third-party, Sonos will see the new playlist playing and has no problems. But the Sonos software cannot convert between one playlist to another.


If you’ve got any suggestions, I’d appreciate it. Thanks for your help.

DMW

Here’s a suggestion - abandon Sonos and replace your hardware with Bluesound equivalents. That’s what I’ve done and I couldn’t be more pleased. The hardware is only slightly better, but the software is much more intuitive and reliable. Also has DIRAC room tuning facility on the Node streamer (Port equivalent), which works much better than Trueplay.

Would love to replace my sonos at this point, if only someone other than me would pay for it. I’m 8 speakers into this system and then they went and broke it.  It’ll be a cold day in several hells before I ever buy another speaker
 

DMW

​@User123, Do you still need assistance navigating through the app?

https://en.community.sonos.com/the-new-sonos-app-229144

Generally, dragging down the small solid bar at the center top of a screen will return you to the Home Screen.

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