Controllers & Music Services

Given the recent news from Sonos covering airplay support, will this include the Sonos amp?

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it appears that Amazon is incorporating the Alexa (Echo) voice control inside of the Amazon app on iOS. https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/16/amazon-iphone-ipad-alexa-amazon-app/ This should make things interesting when Sonos' integration is completed. Yet one more way to access your music, without needing to be in the same room as your Echo device.

In July this year I bought 11 speaker Sonos. I spent more than $ 4,500 to buy. The first two months I was glad that I bought Sonos. Butt then there was a bitter reckoning. Sonos blocked the ability to add new music services to the system, the same way Sonos blocked the ability to add new speakers to the system. There was it because at me on phone Ios 8.4 and on the computer Mac Os 10.9.5 That is, yesterday everything worked but today Sonos decided to turn everything off. I wrote a letter to the support team, and received a response: "....Technology is always advancing and growing and softwares become outdated....you do need to update the OS on both the iPhone and MacBook..." So here, someone in the company of Sonos decided to make me keep up with the technological progress. I want this, or I do not want, in Sonos nobody cares about my desires. Just Sonos will force you buy new phone, computer or another device. And if you do not want to "keep pace with technological progress", thr

Rather than "include (randomly) linked rooms" which can be very arbitrary depending on how rooms were linked prior to an alarm, provide a checkbox for which zones should be included in the alarm, so that a single alarm always rings simultaneously in those zones. (system of checkboxes for including zones would be similar how days of the week are currently chosen)

Interesting announcement. So if I read this correctly - in theory is this going to work ? 1. Assume I have a TV that supports Dolby ATMOS 2. I have the Apple 4K TV (which i saw somewhere ATMOS support is on the Roadmap ) 3. I get a Playbase/Playbar - The Sub and 2 Play 1's . Does this mean that thru AirPlay - I get the Dolby ATMOS Sound - even though its not supported in the Playbase ?? !!!!

Hi, I've heard that the multi room function on the Echo products only works when the music is being sourced from Amazon Music and that it won't work with Spotify. When the echo/sonos integration is live, does anyone know if this limitation will still be present? Thanks

I updated to release 5.0 build 26177021 this morning and the controller grouping function is no longer working. On both the App and desk top version it appears they are grouped but music will only play on a individual controller. Each controller will play individually but not grouped.

Hello for sometime now my iOS apps on both iPad and iPhone don't work. All speakers work and play off my MacBooks .... I have reset the controller , checked the wifi connection deleted and reinstalled and nothing is working .

Hi everyone I was browsing my Feedly earlier today when I came across an article titled "The Sonos App (Remastered)". This got me excited until I clicked on the link of the full article only to end up with a "Page not found" :/ I've attached a screenshot of the header of the article for you to see. It states: "Life has enough compromise, and we want to keep it out of the listening experience. So when we began redesigning the Sonos app, we thought about how we could combine all the choice and variety you get from streaming with the ease and simplicity of combing through your personal record collection." And here is the link to the full post on the Sonos Blog web site: http://blog.sonos.com/en/sonos-app-remastered/ Could this mean that Sonos is finally about to release a long-overdue redesign of its Sonos Controller? :) Does anyone know anything about this? Cheers!

How can I lock my Sonos? It gets annoying when I host a party, only to have my Sonos repeatedly hijacked by other guests.

I live in a studio apartment where the sound travels easily throughout my unit. Appliances such as Washer/Dryer , Dishwasher , overhead oven range fan, and vacuum cleaner easily drown out any audio I was listening to on my Sonos speakers before the appliance turned on. What I'd like would be a microphone on Sonos speakers that could be used to detect changes in ambient volume and adjust the speaker volume to compensate. Example: I'm listening to a podcast and turn the washing machine on, nearby Sonos speakers detect the increase in ambient volume and increase their volume so that I can still hear the podcast. When the washing cycle is done, the speakers detect the decrease in ambient volume and lower their volume back to the previous level.

I just wanted see how many people have mounted a tablet on a wall to control and display the content playing on their Sonos system. The issue I have is that I would l like the iPad app to not dim when it is plugged in so that I can glance across the room to see artist/song information. I tend to use the Spotify app now. I wonder if there needs to be a "kiosk mode" or "display mode" to cater to this use case if the current UI cant be changed. Thoughts?

Hi Just installed Sonos and can stream radio etc fine. However I can't seem to add folders to my music Library. I'm trying to add a music folder that's on my internal hardrive and I keep getting the message "Sonos was unable to add the music folder, Reason: The computer "BATEMAN-Laptop" cannot be found. Thanks, Matt

I love Sonos and can highly recommend the products. I really miss something in the app, and don’t know where to give my feedback, so I send it here, in the hope of that this will be given to the right persons. What do I miss in the app? - compatibility with Siri - a widget on iPhone to control the music easier – play, pause, change song. Sometimes the controller not compare on the lock screen, and then I really miss this widget, so I don’t have to open my phone and the app to control my system. - the option to lock the sound level on each speaker. It’s really annoying if you have a lot of speakers in different rooms, hear the same music in all rooms, and you want to turn up the sound up on 4 out of 6 speakers. Then you have to turn up the sound manually on each speaker. Instead of just lock the sound level on 2 of the speakers, and then have the possibility to drag only in the “head” sound level controller. This is a really big miss for me when I use my Sonos system.

I am a big TuneIn Radio user and was excited to get Sonos for the integration as I was getting massive dropouts on Airplay. A major miss though is lack of Album Art on the controller. The stations I listen to all work in the TuneIn Radio on the iphone/ipad to display the album art, Sonos controller looks amateur by comparison only showing the station cover art.

Amazon echo just linked all speekers just like sono's. I think if sonos dont pull there finger out i will get more amazon echos instead of sonos a lot cheeper sounds not as good but. they said they would launch voice control early 2017 still waiting

Hi.. Someone who knows how to delete a speaker completely so i Can reinstall it Can only separate Pairs but my problem is i have 4 speaker to move and pair togethers as on unit.

SONOS could be more forthright if they would indicate the changes in the Updated Privacy Statement. If customers want to know the changes we have to print up both and search for differences. A cool company like SONOS - great product and great customer service - should not behave like soulless corporations and not be clear about changes. But I fear that lawyers who do not ever think about customers or their needs are probably given full control of this sort of important communication. SONOS - please don't allow yourself to morph into the worst of corporate behavior. Please have your coolness extend to notifications. Thank you for your time.

Configuration: iMac with line out to Play 5 speaker paired with another Play 5 and sometimes grouped with PlayBar and Sub. Autoplay is set to off. At any random time while music is playing the speakers will shut off. I have to open the controller and press stop then play again to turn them back on. This happens a few times a day and is rather frustrating.

Hi Yesterday I purchased playbar and 2 play1 systems, but I found a couple of surprises :( 1) switch-off button it's missing 2)Youtube isn't compatible 3) tryuplay APP miss for andorid sistems For me this features must be present for a system of this level and whit this price I hope that with the next SW updates SONOS introduce this features Regards

Welcome, Sonos 7.4! From everybody but, well, me, I guess. With 7.4 running on my Mac OS 10.9, my glorious SONOS system is now officially gimped up. The entire "Manage" menu is grayed out. Forever, I'm told, by Sonos tech support, until I upgrade to Mac OS 10.10. Which I choose not to. FAVOR: Can somebody who hordes installers be so kind as to send me a 7.3 installer? I would love you for ever and ever. mick (at) mick jeffries dotcom

It would be superb (maybe essential) if one could export Sonos or imported playlists

I’ve received an email from Sonos regarding an update to their privacy policy ahead of new software and system updates next week. Alexa integration? I think so...

I'd like to replace my kitchen radio with a sonos player. But there's one thing that is holding me back; I need a phone/tablet to use a sonos player. My radio has hardware buttons and that is a HUGE advantage in a kitchen environment. With 9 fingers messy from preparing food/whatever i can use my one clean finger to press power followed by a channel preset. This is a PAIN as it is today with a sonos system. I know there's buttons on the players, but 1: you cant pick a favorite/playlist, 2: your player(s) might me mounted out of reach. So; a small hardware unit with 3(ish) preset buttons that also powers on the player(s). Volume up/down and a pause/power off button. You could combine preset button long press with power-off/pause to save a button, but the affordance is a bit bad with this approach (it might be to hard for the average user to find out how to use the feature). The unit would have to be setup in the mobile/pc app; what playlist/favorite does each preset button play and wha

hi, I am unable to connect to Tunein. I can play music from my Itunes on Sonos though