How to get old iphone app?

@Colin: no one cares about the old software. But the functions it had. Also: sonospad is based on the old 4.3 controller and I'm told it still works on beta versions of the upcoming firmware. That would indicate that the incompatibility between the old controller and new firmware is mostly a forced check box/ requirement that they inserted. @User926838: I doubt the next quarterly financial will show much of our issues. I have been in a dozen stores this month and a lot of stores are still showing sonos with the old 4.3 controller. So it might take longer for things to seep through.

Frederic, I hope you clicked the 'Update' button to save potential new owners the heartache of finding a major loss of functionality when they got the product home.

Haha. Great idea, if I wasn't shopping around for 9.2.4 home cinema. So it would be great if I could benefits/ discount when I buy it. And not a angry store owner because I turned his sonos showroom controllers into crappy paperweights.

That was my point Frederic.  The upper level decision makers at Sonos do not read this forum (obviously).  They simply have a PR department (Ryan and Dominique) "handle it".  And with no line of communication between the customers and the executives it will take years for them to realize there is a problem, long after Samsung and others have taken over their market dominance.

The executives are directing engineering effort toward attracting new customers, as they should be, with features such as wireless connectivity and surely voice control, multi-band EQ, Mono, multiple playlists via double/triple click, and persistent shuffle/crossfade/repeat settings.  But if they knew that their half-baked 5.0 app knocked out a bunch of existing customers and is painfully scattered and unintuitive they'd surely have a 5.0.1 update out next week that runs on all devices and puts all the controls in an intuitive place.  Or at the very least, they would re-release 4.3 and just let people use and enjoy the product as is for as long as they want.  Future updates could either be properly designed to handle all hardware, or could warn the user of flaws that prevent the use of older devices.

@Frederic - from what I understand, SonoPad uses the standard UPNP protocol to communicate with your Sonos. That's why you didn't have to set up the app with your Sonos system when you first installed it.

The original Sonos controller likely works differently to also provide some additional features that may not be exposed via UPNP.

@Sebastian: thats the Magic of a well working system.... No one cares if it works through upnp, or whatever way. If they would re-release the old app as "classic sonos" let that work through upnp, They would have the new app with all the fancy functions for whoever wants it. .....but at the same time have a way for hundreds of other devices to have a perfectly functioning control system.

same here raised with sonos no joy

also have windows phone so no app for me makes the system unusable

suggest you try an alternative system

Wow, I can't believe I've just bought into a system, that is made by a company that considers screwing over it's customer base as an acceptable action. We already pay an extra £400 for the hardware to control their devices, and now they just want to render them useless, because some hack developer can't write proper software?

I can never understand why all these hardware manufacturers insist on employing amateur developers, for such fundamentally important aspects such as the controller software. It's not just Sonos either, it seems to be a common trend to employ asshats for the app/software development.

This sets a trend that warrants some strongly worded product reviews, to warn people that the expensive streaming system they're about to buy, could be rendered useless at the flick of an update switch. This is up there with probably the most irresponsible action I have seen from a manufacturer... I hope it costs them dearly in future lost sales.

Wow, I can't believe I've just bought into a system, that is made by a company that considers screwing over it's customer base as an acceptable action. We already pay an extra £400 for the hardware to control their devices, and now they just want to render them useless, because some hack developer can't write proper software?

I can never understand why all these hardware manufacturers insist on employing amateur developers, for such fundamentally important aspects such as the controller software. It's not just Sonos either, it seems to be a common trend to employ asshats for the app/software development.

This sets a trend that warrants some strongly worded product reviews, to warn people that the expensive streaming system they're about to buy, could be rendered useless at the flick of an update switch. This is up there with probably the most irresponsible action I have seen from a manufacturer... I hope it costs them dearly in future lost sales.


Sums up the situation well!

Wow, I can't believe I've just bought into a system, that is made by a company that considers screwing over it's customer base as an acceptable action. We already pay an extra £400 for the hardware to control their devices, and now they just want to render them useless, because some hack developer can't write proper software?

I can never understand why all these hardware manufacturers insist on employing amateur developers, for such fundamentally important aspects such as the controller software. It's not just Sonos either, it seems to be a common trend to employ asshats for the app/software development.

This sets a trend that warrants some strongly worded product reviews, to warn people that the expensive streaming system they're about to buy, could be rendered useless at the flick of an update switch. This is up there with probably the most irresponsible action I have seen from a manufacturer... I hope it costs them dearly in future lost sales.


It sums up the situation but there is a simple viable solution if you have old ipads and it costs hardly anything:  http://sonopad.com/ Has anyone found that it doesn't meet their needs, or thinks that it will not in the future?