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johnnytg
Contributor I
May 1, 2020

Feature Requests for S2

  • May 1, 2020
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I’ve also sent these suggestions to Sonos but wondering what others are wishing for with the big S2 update. I’ve read Sonos’ S2 press release and what few new features mentioned in the press release sound great I think some of my suggestions could make S2 the gold standard OS for streaming music. With this in mind most of my suggestions are some of the best features of the Tidal, Quboz, Deezer and Roon native OS apps.  

  • Indicate streaming type of album and song playing no matter which music service you’re using inside the S2 controller….HiFi, MQA, CD, HD, Hi-Res etc
  • Speaking of HiRes audio playback. it will be interesting if Sonos through the S2 update can push current Sonos products (speakers, Port and Amp) to actually play MQA music files from Tidal or Dolby Atmos for surround sound set-ups.
  • Provide album credits, liner notes, album reviews and artist bio. Tidal and Roon does a wonderful job with this feature. Currently in Sonos S1 if you click “More” “Album Info” it takes you to see the song listing for the album or you can browse the artist.  
  • List albums in release date order and list the release date of each album. Currently in S1 Qobuz lists albums with release dates.
  • This might be music service specific yet I prefer to look at album listings in a grid instead of a thumb nail list.
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    Sjoop1985
    Sjoop1985
    June 8, 2020

    Audio through the app - seriously.

    How is Sonos, a hardware company, going to make any money off that?

     

    Ontopic: I don't really have many wishes for features in S2. Couldn't care less about high-res. I would like to see some work done on Google Assistant integration, because that is a little underwhelming. But that takes two to tango of course.

    Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --- Living room: Arc, Sub, 2x One - Kitchen: One - Bedroom: Play 3 - Office: Beam - Bathroom: Play 1
    JohnG666
    Enthusiast II
    June 8, 2020

    I’d like to see more information available on my FLAC files that I stream from my NAS, so when you see the playlist or queue it will also list the track time as well. This was something that couldn’t be done before but I’m hoping it can be got around by storing larger music database information on the controller device.

    Also regarding streaming my own FLAC files, I’d like to be able to sort track better, at the moment you’re very limited with sorting tracks within albums and within artist.

     

    grendel
    Lyricist III
    June 8, 2020

    Audio through the app - seriously.

    How is Sonos, a hardware company, going to make any money off that?

     

     

    Well there’s more than making money for a company. Loyalty for example.

     

    Back on topic too :-) I deleted and recreated my music library dans did not find any improvement regarding multi-tagging or library size limitations.  

    I’m not interested in online music services so i don’t see any differences from my perspective.

    JohnG666
    Enthusiast II
    June 8, 2020

    I’d also like to see improvements and a more configurable My Sonos tab. At the moment I find it poor as it doesn’t list all my radio stations without me pressing on the link and it also is the only place that I can have my playlists for my music library. This is a problem for me because it means it will always spin up my NAS drive every time I visit the My Sonos tab and I only want it to do so if I want to access the playlists. I know I can remove the playlists from the My Sonos tab but then they aren’t available anywhere else!

     

    Jonnysevern
    Jonnysevern
    Contributor I
    June 16, 2020

    Hi,

    I made a speaker grouping suggestion a few years ago. I’m pleased to see it implemented in the new S2 app.

    It would be nice to combine groups of speakers with audio options such as radio and playlists.

    Examples:

    Group one: Kitchen speaker + Radio 6

    Group two: Living Room, Dining Room + Favourite Playlist 

    It​ could then be activated in one press on the app or action​ it​ via voice. Voice example, “Play Group 1”

    Another thing to look at is audio ​predictions. Track some very basic user interactions to make suggestions based on the day of week and time. Most people are very predictable.

    ​If a user likes a particular band, suggest playing their new album when it's released, etc​

    Anyway, keep up the good work!

     

    Kind regards

    Jonny

    pavelsolovyov
    Lyricist I
    June 22, 2020

    Hi,

    I have a very large room with 1 Sonos Five, 3 Sonos Ones and 1 Sub. I listen to all speakers simultaneously and retune often depending on my location in the room. I use to tune low/highs, volume level and sub level. 

    My huge request is to optimise access in the application in the way users will be able to reach tune setting in lower amount of clicks. Currently, to tune regular speaker you have to click more than 4 times, and sub +1 more click and + 1 more scroll. Up to me this does not meet the high bar of Sonos customer expectations.

    Will appreciate your comments.

     

    Regards,

    Pavel.

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