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John B
October 14, 2017

Changing the order in which My Sonos items display

  • October 14, 2017
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Apologies in advance if everyone thinks this is obvious, but it may prove useful to some people. I have realised that the 'rename' facility gives me total control over the order in which my favourite playlists, radio stations etc display. So, for example, I have about 50 Sonos Playlists. I have selected 15 that I play most and added them to the 'My Sonos' Playlists category. Then the eight 'favourite favourite' playlists I have renamed with an asterisk in front of the name, so that these are the ones that appear without my having to tap "See All".

I have also put this list at the top of the "My Sonos" screen, as I use Playlists more than radio stations etc

I can see other possibilities here for categorising items, but I'm still playing around with this.

For the avoidance of doubt, the name change only affects the item in My Sonos, not the original source.

I hope that is of some use.

All we need now is icons a sensible size.....
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    John BAuthor
    October 17, 2017
    But there is no need to change them there. You could always have done that.
    Kumar
    October 17, 2017
    Erm...how?
    John BAuthor
    October 17, 2017
    Honestly, forget it. I would be the first to admit this is a very minor feature
    MikeV
    MikeV
    October 17, 2017
    All we need now is icons a sensible size.....
    I think I found the "inspiration" for such huge icons in the Sonos app, and possibly part of the 8.0 app redesign in general.

    Look at the Bose Soundtouch app screenshots. And I'll leave it at that.
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    J0hn0000
    Contributor III
    October 18, 2017
    Thanks for pointing this out, but I cannot believe that the only way to control display order is by monkeying with the names as if this were a Windows OS. That's just...baffling. Creating a user-defined sort order is not complicated. Many of the decisions in this new UI are very strange. I do hope they are taking these concerns seriously.

    BTW, you could achieve the same result by prefixing them with a number (01, 02, 03, etc) if you prefer not to use special characters. It's good to know it's only the name in My Sonos that is changed.

    One more note, locating the rename option is strangely buried several steps deep. From My Sonos click See All, then the menu in the upper right, which only has one option, to edit stations, then this is the odd part...clicking on each stations' menu does not give a rename option. You have to long press on the station to get the option to delete (redundant with the red X icon) and rename. Who designed this UI?? This is all on Android, btw.
      J0hn0000
      Contributor III
      October 18, 2017
      I totally agree LeeAnnW1!
      It should obviously by default order your most used (ie favourites ) first, then a tap simple slide into your preferred order
      No brainier in terms of user friendliness I’d have thought.
        J0hn0000
        Contributor III
        October 18, 2017
        Totally everything that should be a max of 1 or 2 clicks depending on the complexity of your system seems to take over complicated levels - I’m not sure the word ’designed’ properly applies to the new controller feels like it was a stitch together job
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