I can not play from My Android Phone anymore- why ...?
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Yawn. This again. It’s been raised and answered in so many other threads. And now another…
yes. THIS again. Because people are PISSED.
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This drives me nuts! Why would I ever again buy Sonos products when they remove essential features like this? I don’t subscribe to a music streaming service, and the Sonos devices I have (Arc and Sonos Ones) don’t have bluetooth. The only solutions offered are to subscribe to streaming or invest in NAS - so spend more money to replace the storage my phone does just fine. Effectively Sonos has just decided to deny me access to my music. Thanks!
Support for playing from an Android phone and support for local network music libraries are completely different. The loss of one due to a change in the mobile’s operating system has absolutely zero bearing on the other.
It used to be nice and simple to connect to a Sonos system and play music directly from my Samsung phone; being limited by the host’s music library or being forced to use another godforsaken streaming service is a big step backward.
Sad to see Sonos not adapting to Google’s changes and removing features and functionality. When my company’s software is broken by new iOS or Android requirements we patch and update the code to maintain functionality. Sonos is pitifully doing the opposite.
And if Google or Apple tell you you are in violation of their rules and must remove the functionality or be removed from their store, do you still maintain that functionality?
I suspect Sonos are secretly happy about this. Another reason to drop support for personal libraries altogether and just focus on an app that supports streaming services. New search not showing results for personal libraries and their new range of speakers being Bluetooth enabled spell it out loud and clear.
I’m afraid it isn’t Sonos who dictates the concentration on streaming services, it is the public.
- Music streaming makes up 84% of music industry revenue
- The music streaming industry grew by over 10% over the last year
- Music streaming’s global revenue currently sits at $17.5 billion
- Paid music streaming makes up 23% of all music streaming
- 78% of people listen to music via a streaming service
- Over 600 million subscribe to a music streaming platform
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/music-streaming-stats
And at last count (and it was a while ago), 93% of content on Sonos is done via streaming. 7% is local libraries.
I will never buy another sonos product. this makes ~$750.00 USD of equipment useless.
The writing is on the wall for local music libraries. New search doesn't include local libraries and it ain't gonna be called New search forever. Expect the usual suspects to be doing the rounds putting a positive spin on it when Sonos pull the plug on it! 😀
So that would mean "nobody" said they aren't supporting local libraries. Gotcha.
Everyone is blaming SONOS because it is their fault.
SONOS could have made it work. But instead the company just puts a bot on here to automatically respond to every complaint about what SONOS has done by just blaming Google. I will happily accept that Google is much more evil than SONOS, but in this case Google is just being used as a scapegoat. SONOS could and should make this work
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The firmware on the devices is what has changed this - the app is just a remote to the devices.
It’s not “Excuses, excuses…”, it’s facts. I respectfully request you attack the argument and not the person,
Your government bans the use of diesel. Local gas stations stop carrying it. Is it correct to lay the blame on the local station? Or should you blame the government who banned the use?
That’s exactly the same as what we’re experiencing here. The Android OS has banned the use of their devices as a local drive, affecting Sonos, among some others, and following in the footsteps of Apple, who banned the same thing a couple of years ago. And yet we seem to be blaming Sonos for this change.
I’m not sure this change would have been something Sonos was in favor of, I have heard rumors of them fighting with Apple about it (my ‘source’ is no longer valid, so I don’t know about discussions with the Android folks, but it seems likely).
Is it frustrating? Sure. Can we all wish the OS makers didn’t have to make this choice, and force Sonos to alter their connection methods? Absolutely.
I went through this issue a couple of years ago with iOS. Is it life changing? Not to me, it just required a relatively minor change in my habits. I still use Bluetooth to communicate with my Roam, and group it with my other Sonos speakers to play content from my iPad or iPhone. I’ve moved my library to other places (an NAS) for normal playback, especially when my mobile devices are not on the same LAN as the Sonos is.
Completely agree with the above angry comments. The Sonos app has always been known as one of the biggest bag of b******* ever programmed and now they have tampered with it even further to make it impossible to play the songs I own from the phone that I own to the speakers that I own. I have spent literally thousands on this piece of * over fifteen years and they cannot resist every opportunity to ruin people’s experiences with they system.
*Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.*
Agreed, you should definitely complain to Google, who is forcing this alteration with the changes they’re making to the Android OS.
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I’d be surprised if the music library went away, there are enough customers that have content not available via streaming that would be quite unhappy.
Remain a very low priority, probably.
Now the only option to play music from your device is to upload it to a cloud storage service that supports Sonos, such as iBroadcast, Apple Music, Deezer, Plex, and YouTube Music.
It’s one option, not the only option. Refer to the original announcement thread, linked in this thread, for other options.
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I do not think anybody has put a positive spin on the end tp playing music that's on your phone, be it from Android recently or from an iPhone years ago. For many users this has not been a good experience. It's just that some believe that they are not being lied to when Sonos says it is unavoidable. Others keep going back to the past.
Completely agree. Its 90% of my use of SONOS and why we bought it in the first place. I feel robbed.
Completely agree. It’s 90% of my use of SONOS and why we bought it in the first place. I feel robbed.
But why is everyone blaming Sonos when, by all accounts, it’s Google that has discontinued a feature that Sonos was making use of? Or are you agreeing you should/will/have complained to Google?
And when Android updates their OS, even devices with older Sonos OS’s, this feature will stop working. It’s the Google/Android OS that is forcing this change. Just like when Apple changed iOS and broke ‘on this device’ playback from all iOS devices.
You could, I suppose, never update either your old Sonos software and your Android software, and keep both of them unchanged in perpetuity.
Yawn. This again. It’s been raised and answered in so many other threads. And now another…
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Apple provides the UI and other features for the Sonos app……
Agree, I use iPhone, there isn’t a more comfortable app than the native Apple Music app using Airplay, the Apple Music interface in the Sonos app is horrible, pretty slow, I try to search something and appear very few results, and the Apple Music browsing tab is limited to my library and the stations.
Don’t come out that AirPlay will be deleted too because I’m gonna swoon, bought my Sonos Roam for $250 this is getting unreliable, and unreliable even more
I think the Sonos App Apple Music search interface and results screen are fine - it’s no worse than the Apple Music App and there’s a tab to search the user local uploaded iCloud library too.
It looks pretty good to me on the iPad (See below example search result for Genesis)…
It used to be nice and simple to connect to a Sonos system and play music directly from my Samsung phone; being limited by the host’s music library or being forced to use another godforsaken streaming service is a big step backward.
Sad to see Sonos not adapting to Google’s changes and removing features and functionality. When my company’s software is broken by new iOS or Android requirements we patch and update the code to maintain functionality. Sonos is pitifully doing the opposite.
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