Hate this new app 8.0

Why is it every time you guys change the app it becomes more cumbersome and less user-friendly. This 8.0 app is NOT better. Please give us the choice before you go changing the apps that we use all the time.

Personally this latest update feels like a real step backwards in user friendliness.

The 'MY SONOS' tab... Use far too much space displaying content, I always have to press 'show all' button to see what I need to, so why bother with the new BIG look?!
The 'ROOMS' tab. Again, the new layout uses to much space and makes it much more difficult to see what's playing in each room at a glance (which is surely the point?) Now only shows 3 rooms on screen, a completely unnecessary waste of space when the old layout showed much more. I would like to be able to see many more rooms/speakers.
'SEARCH' & 'BROWSE' tabs - why are there two tabs for an almost identical function?!

Another slight annoyance is when on the expanded playing screen... The new tabs across the bottom VANISH (on my phone) so there's barely any point having them if they're supposed to be short cuts... I still have to hit the tiny arrow in the top left corner to get anywhere!
On a plus, the quick grouping of rooms does seems slicker/better, but overall I'm pretty unimpressed!

Your comments about the size of things are valid. Browse and Search are not remotely similar, but browse is mis-named and should be called Sources. The fact that the bar is not visible on the now playing screen is certainly a flaw, which I hope will be corrected. I find it easier to swipe down the screen than press the down arrow.

I also hate the white look, even the notification area turns white, looks like a school project app. I don't see any increase in speed, album covers from my library are updated more slowly then 7.4. I agree with comments about tabs and why are playlists found under MySonos and Music Library under Browse?? Browse should display all sources that's what browse means right? On the MySonos tab as previously mentioned playlists are now big ugly icons which you have to scroll down to find , and most are just the generic icon anyway. A nice alphabetical list like 7.4 is all that's needed. App is getting more like Apple every day more form less function.

I too would prefer to see Sonos Playlists under Browse, which should be called Sources. But if you want the logical difference it is that everything in a playlist is actually chosen from one of the 'true' sources

I understand the logic but why not then put MusicLibrary under MySonos, what's more uniquely 'mine' then my library. I think we agree that all sources should be grouped, separated by 'true ' sources and customised i.e. playlists and favourites oh wait we had that it was called v 7.4. All I'm sure it is as a 6 year user of Sonos no version of the app has been as counter-intuitive as this one I'm still working my way around it. My wife was very comfortable with 7.4 but hates this version and I've never before complained about an update so either I'm getting old or something's wrong

I am not fundamentally disagreeing with you but my point is that playlists are derived from elements in other Sonos sources, the music library isn't.

What we actually had in 7.4 was absolutely everything chucked onto the same menu, whether for day to day music playing or rare uses like adding music services. OK you prefer that, I don't. Let's agree to differ.

I think the new UI is an improvement. I like the buttons always available at the bottom, very much like the new dock configuration on iOS 11. Simple, intuitive, fast navigation. One thing I’d suggest is to allow personalization of the background with a photo. I use a picture I took of several hundred Sandhill Cranes gathering at dusk for my iPad’s background. Very soothing.

I think the new UI is an improvement. I like the buttons always available at the bottom, very much like the new dock configuration on iOS 11. Simple, intuitive, fast navigation. One thing I’d suggest is to allow personalization of the background with a photo. I use a picture I took of several hundred Sandhill Cranes gathering at dusk for my iPad’s background. Very soothing.I will agree with you totally when the Sonos bar really is always visible, including on the Now Playing screen.

Still on 7.4 here and don't know what to do!, I have a new Play 1 to add so presumably this will force an update to 8.0..

Wife has just got over the price of my Playbar, 2 Play 1's and Sub. She likes the 7.4 so might be shooting myself in the foot going to 8.0..