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My original post was locked so starting new one.  Posted this 3 months ago, 3 months after the ‘upgrade’:

Hi Folks,

3+ months into the updated Sonos app debacle, here is a list of features that worked great on version 16 of the app but still do  not work on version 80 of the app.  I hope we can get fixes for these and check them off in less than 3 months:

    1) Add/Edit tracks to a Sonos playlist.
        I use playlists heavily from music in my local Library. Some of these playlists have thousands to tracks.  Since the upgrade, I cannot edit them at all.
    2) Album art.
        Album art no longer displays for tracks from my local Library.
    3) When viewing the queue, the app should zoom to the currently playing or last played track.
        When a playlist has more than dozen or so tracks I shouldn’t have to scroll to find the current track.
    4) Touching the volume bar should allow me to adjust the volume for any of the devices currently being used.
        Now I have to click the speaker list at the bottom. I suppose this is mainly personal preference.

I will try to post here as each of these get fixed (hopefully!).

 

As of today, #2 (album art) and #4 (volume control) are working normally. I just noticed album art working today: 6 months after the disaster.

 

Still waiting for #1 and #3.  The playlist is very important to me.  Playlists do not show up at all. Luckily I  listen to 1 frequently so it's on the ‘Recently Played’ list.  But all of the others I had created are no longer accessible. 

Okay Sonos, it’s been 6 months.  Was it worth it?  The stock price pretty much tanked after the release and while it’s come back a bit, it’s not at the 52 week high.  Next time consider your existing customers.

 

Thanks!

MikeS

​@mfs2112 

As of today, #2 (album art) and #4 (volume control) are working normally. I just noticed album art working today: 6 months after the disaster.

 Does your Music Library show album art in the queue?  Mine does not on IOS.  
 

 Also see what happens when you load one of your playlists into the queue.  Pick one around 500 tracks long.

​@mfs2112 

As of today, #2 (album art) and #4 (volume control) are working normally. I just noticed album art working today: 6 months after the disaster.

 Does your Music Library show album art in the queue?  Mine does not on IOS.  
 

 Also see what happens when you load one of your playlists into the queue.  Pick one around 500 tracks long.

Yes, it does on my Android phone.

​@mfs2112 

As of today, #2 (album art) and #4 (volume control) are working normally. I just noticed album art working today: 6 months after the disaster.

 Does your Music Library show album art in the queue?  Mine does not on IOS.  
 

 Also see what happens when you load one of your playlists into the queue.  Pick one around 500 tracks long.

Sorry, hit send too quickly!

 

I loaded up the only playlist I can still see and it has 1000+ songs in it.  I can see album art.  Then I load the queue. The first 3 attempts it started load and then said ‘Unable to load’. But on the 3rd attempt it worked and I see all of the album art.

So it’s working, barely. : )

 

 Are you Droid or IOS?  For my NAS music I get no album art when looking in the queue.  Also when I load one of my playlists that has a track count something greater than maybe 300 it loads over and over again.  My Cello Concerto playlist of 378 tracks loaded until I had over 47,000 tracks in the queue.  This is with IOS.

Android. I have a Western Digital local NAS for my local Music Library.

Here is a screen shot from a local playlist with 3000+ tracks.

 

Here is a screenshot of the queue of the same playlist. All of the album is showing up now!

 

Now if I could only access/edit my other Sonos playlists…..

 

Thanks,

MikeS

 Is the playlist you’re showing me a M3U playlist that is in the WD NAS?  The ones that show no album art in my library are all M3U.  My music & those playlists are all in a SonicTranporter i5 NAS.

 

No, the playlist shown is one I created in the Sonos app in the prior version of the app (v16 on Android).  I have not used any m3u playlists at all on my app.  That might at least partially explain the difference of what I am seeing vs what  you are seeing with your playlists.

Very likely.  Thanks for all the info.

You got me curious so I checked out some imported playlists in my Music Library.  I do have some .m3u files on my Music Library, I just never used them before.  I found that for most it did show album art, but not all and it was not consistent. I suspect it may be it needs time to read/download the images or something like that. But in short, album is at least sort of working for imported m3u playlists on the Android app.

Hope that helps.

 

 ​@mfs2112:
My tags are all in order.  All other software shows the album art with no issues.  I have been using music control point software for over 25 years all the way back to SqueezeBox.  Many of them I used were for gear I demoed from audio shops in the Chicago area which required me to use unfamiliar control point software.  All of them without failure showed my album art.  Then there’s Sonos.

Screenshots are two M3U playlists in the queue.  The first one is small enough to avoid insane duplication until it reaches some insane track count.  Should load album art at that small track count.  Does not.  The second one is the playlist that contains 378 tracks.  As you can see that’s not the track count shown.  It loaded 126 times.  I can fully understand why album art would not load on that one.

 

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