Controllers & Music Services

Hi everybody, My sonos apps on all my devices keeps shutting down from time to time, has anyone else been having this problem the last few weeks

Sonos Software is so complicate and non intuitive that I'm alwas afraid to touch anything when I got something Working ! Since a few month I use three Play 1 Не is Shuffle all from My Music folder on WDMyclout the two other are Connected to the Same radio Station Now I want to change the Music source for one of the station. Of course this sounds to be very difficult and impossible to do from My Android Mobile App So I go to my Desktop App and Impossible to find or remember how to do it If I right click on the selected Station I have no Menu option to select another Music Source I see so many complains about Sonos Software awfull design that I can not understand why nobody decide to make something better with true Ergonomic Designer and not with geeks sparsing feature here and there with their own tecno focus ! I thing that some consider that the power of a sofware reside in it's difficlty to use or understand !

Please enable searching across all audio sources (Music Library/Streaming Services/Amazon Cloud Player/etc.) in the Windows desktop controller. The ability to do this in the iOS controllers is wonderful--it feels very limited by comparison to have to choose a single source to search within in Windows. Thanks!

I use Spotify and Google Music through Sonos. No local media. I assume this is the way everyone is going or will be going. When playing on Sonos you get the option to Thumbs Up/Down a song as it's playing and it then says that will affect recommendations. But how will it? Is that solely for Sonos and local media or does it affect your Spotify/Google Music recommendations? I thumbed up a song through Sonos thinking it might mirror the thumbs up in Google Music but it didn't. So what did it do? Am I right in thinking nothing at all? If it essentially does nothing for streaming users then can it be changed so a thumbs up/down in Sonos will mirror on the streaming service?

To all, I’m not certain this is the right place to ask this, so please let me know if I should switch to another group. My problem is app connectivity. I purchased 2 Play:1’s, which I set up in my living room as a stereo pair. I have a Linksys router and Netgear range extender because of the distance to the router. When I first set it up, the speakers would cut out fairly often, and the app on my iPhone and on my iPad would lose its connection to Sonos even more often. Because of that I purchased and installed a Boost in my router, connected my speakers to its network, and since then haven’t had any loss of signal with the speakers. However, the problems with my iPhone and iPad are just as bad. Either it takes multiple attempts to change a radio station or open Spotify (with error messages each time), or I get the Sonos opening screen that says I need a wi-fi connection. I still have a strong signal from my network, and my other apps seem to work well on the home networ

I have noticed that the app on my phone, my wife's phone, the iPad and even the iMac has intermittent connection issues. Sometime it discovers the Sonos system and sometimes it does not. I discovered this today when I was trying to add two new Play1 speakers that I just received. To date I have not be able to add the play1's to the system. I have tried the following: 1.) Reboot router 2.) Power down router 3.) Delete app and reinstall Pretty frustrated at this point.

Hello all, I recently purchased a Sonos One, and I am really impressed. Playing local music is a huge plus. I noticed that great care has been taken to make the iOS controller app accessible via VoiceOver. Unfortunately, this is not so true for the Mac version. Most of the buttons are not labelled, however they do have VoiceOver hints, such as Crossfade, Play, etc. Apart from this, it is a quite huge issue that all lists, including the search results, the source selection, etc, are not visible to VoiceOver at all. This essentially makes the Mac version unusable. Would it be possible to enhance the UI in this area please? I would be happy to beta test, and give you further information, if needed. Erion

Is it posible to make a function with maximum sound level for some rooms? In my kitchen it's annoying when I have a party, and the guests just can set the volume to maximum.

Trying to find out if it's possible to play a (shuffled) playlist AFTER a song that is currently playing. Right now, it seems that if I choose to shuffle a playlist, there isn't a "Play Next" option and will cut-off the song currently playing.

Hi all, SInce I updated my laptop to windows 10 the sonos app won't work. I have tried to uninstall it and restart but no luck. Any ideas? Thanks

Similar to Itunes there should be Shuffle by album mode, which plays a complete album and then randomly plays another album in the playlist.

I'm fairly new to Sonos, Spotify (ex-Slacker user) and just today got an Amazon Echo Dot. I had already configured my Harmony remote to work with my new Play:5, but just a few minutes ago I added the Harmony skill to the Dot. Now I can simply say "Alexa, tell Harmony to turn on the Play 5" or "Alexa, tell Harmony to turn the volume up" or "Alexa, tell Harmony to skip this song." I have not found a way yet to request a specific song, artist, playlist yet so for now it immediately starts playing the default playlist I tied to the Harmony activity. I suppose I could add separate activities to the Harmony software, then give friendly names to each one within the Alexa software which would allow me to select various playlists. Has anybody else tried this configuration to use the Echo with Sonos? Curious to hear what your experience has been. Still trying to determine if there is a way to select a different Spotify playlist or radio station with voice. Thanks!!!

Hi - it has always been a mystery to me why crossfade is on a different controller panel (and hence harder to find) to the shuffle and repeat options. Logicaly to me they all function on the queue for a particular speaker. I expect it to be changed on each update, especially a major UI update like v8 - but no.

I have an Echo Dot, Harmony Hub and multiple Sonos boxes. My set is Tv on the wall, receiver, apple tv, dvd, cable box and sonos connect boxes in connected to receiver closet. My sonos connect boxes are zones, living room, sunroom, office, bedroom and a connect amp in the lounge. Once i installed my echo dot, it recognizes all the zones. Harmony app installed and I can't get it to move to sonos so i can play music. Also tv does not turn on or off with Dot but it does lock up the Harmony Remote until I push help key. Thoughts or clarifying questions?

Please explain to me why, after several years and many updates, I still can't sort a playlist by song title and/or artist. This is such a basic feature of every other music manager I've ever seen. Why hasn't Sonos added this feathre?

If I want to play music in the whole house, I have to group the Kitchen and Living Room together. I wish I could save that group as "Full house" and have it selectable, just as a room. Preferably, you would want to create all kinds of groups. Like "Dinner Insider" for Kitchen+Living room and "Dinner Outside" for Kitchen+Outside area.

First thing I'd like to state is that the Airplay device works with a standard speaker connected via a jack to my Airplay Express. I have configured a Sonos Connect called "Airplay", I have connected a Jack from airplay to RCA on the IN on the Sonos Connect. In my environment I also have 3 rooms configured, Kitchen (Sonos Connect -> Amp -> ceiling speakers), Living Room (Playbar and Play:1 x2) and Bedroom (Play3). I want to be able to play music from my iPhone over Airplay to the "Kitchen", I have configured as shown in the screenshot. However every time I close the tab to see if the config has been applied I get an exclamation mark and it doesn't work (see other screenshot). Am I missing something? Any guidance greatly appreciated.

Hi, this is just more (and more recent) requests to add support for AndroidTV with the Android controller... The main Sonos controller says not supported on my Sony Bravia 2016/2017 AndroidTV. From the Play Store. This was a post from a while back. https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/sonos-control-on-android-tv-box-needs-better-remote-interaction-6734000

Do you (Sonos) have any plans on introducing a Jukebox-mode to the Sonos-system. I guess a lot of users have tried having a party with a well prepared playlist blown to pieces by guests adding tracks to play next. I would like a mode where users where only able to ADD to queue...

What a major setback!

I would like to play HD Radio on my Sonos speakers. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to directly integrate a local music source into the desktop app. Currently, it is possible to play HD Radio on your computer using a $25 RTL-SDR USB adapter and the NRSC5 library. See: https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5 I describe how to use this library along with Airfoil on my Mac in order to stream a radio station to networked speakers using Airplay or Google Cast here: http://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/5052 Unfortunately, I cannot currently fling music to my new Sonos One speakers. There seem three possible options: 1) Wait for Google Assistant integration for the Sonos One speakers and anticipate that they will support Google Cast then. 2a) Create a Icecast music server. Pipe music from NSRC5 library to that. Then create a local Internet radio station on my Mac that "tunes" to the Icecast server. 2b) There might be a similar solution using UPNP rather than

Is it possible to bring my SONOS Play:1 with me to my college dorm room, using my laptop?

I'd like to see a feature which allows you to stream any audio output onto your Sonos system, e.g. use the audio of the YouTube, SkyGo app or any game you play. That would be quite neat.

The story is I have a very large music collection. I have all my music on a stand alone 3 TB Synology drive. Sonos is lynced to this one music folder. I update it but things are missing. Whole bands are missing. 9 Out Of 10 cds are missing from an artist. And it’s not just towards the end. This is in the B’s and E’s. I did read something up a 65,000 song limit but I thought the way I read it that was like through iTunes, not something like a Synology working off it’s own server, so to speak. Is there a fix? If so how? Thanks. Extremely frustrated. And don’t understand why this should be a problem.

Hi all If I am listening to music but searching for albums to add to my Sonos playlist from Spotify it won't let me add that album as the "done" button is greyed out? I can only add an album if I am playing it. Am I missing something?