Controllers & Music Services

Is there no landscape mode for sonos S1 iPhone app?

Please, without delay, add immediately to S1 & S2, the name of the playlist that is currently in queue.  This would help a lot when searching a multitude of playlists.  This should be a simple fix. 

Exactly what it says.  We don’t have any “old” S1 devices connected.  We have 9 zones, and they all show up on our iPhone Sonos controller app (the gold icon, S2 app), but 2 of them do not show up on the macOS app.  It happens that the 2 that are missing are the first 2 alphabetically but not sure that has to do with anything.   Yes, I have rebooted _everything_ repeatedly, before you ask. Sonos used to work amazing with no problems.  We had over 10 zones including 2 playbars, 2 subs, 4 play 3’s, 3 play 1’s and 2 play 5’s.  We got rid of 2 of them because they were “old” S1 devices.  Our house has Google Wifi mesh networking.  And we have the Boost.  This is just so frustrating that you are always messing with everything, and now it’s messed up. I’m on macOS 10.15.7.  Please don’t say to upgrade to Big Sur b/c I’m not ready to do that yet.

Whenever a song plays where there is a main artist and a featured artist (example: Megan tha Stallion ft Beyonce) then Sonos doesn't show the featured artist. It only shows Megan's name. Source is YouTube music. Also, i have the old playbar with sub and surrounds (play 1s).. whenever TV is the source and i decide to pause TV and play music via the playbar and surround system... Music plays as expected. But when I press play on TV.. the TV sound doesn't come through. I have TV autoplay toggled on so TV should override the music but it never does in this scenario.Yet the missing featured artist bugs me most. I keeps on having to google or open the YouTube music app to find out who is featured.

The transfer from Google Play Music to You Tube Music has been pretty unsatisfactory, particularly as far as user’s own uploaded libraries are concerned. Until a few days ago under Library/Albums just a few albums used to show up under the Uploads heading (in my case only as far as the A’s). Today, under Library/Albums, the Uploads tab seems to have disappeared completely which makes finding stuff very problematic.What is going on?

Hello,I would really appreciate some help with this….I have a Play 1 and a Connect Amp.I have a large library of music of my own on iTunes. Previously, I used the ‘play from this device’ to play this music from my iPad. When this disappeared I moved everything to GooglePlay and it worked fine. When I was told that this was going as well I was told to move everything to Youtube. I made the transfer and all was ok.This weekend I went to play an album and found that all that is stored on my Youtube account is a few playlists-none of my other music at all. I went back to Googleplay (but of course I cannot see what is actually there anymore) and requested to transfer my library again. Transfer complete, but the same playlists remain with no other music.I want to play my music from my iPad through Sonos. I do not want to have to pay a subscription to a music service. Apparently my devices cannot connect through airplay and so I am seemingly stuck without a solution.Can anyone suggest a free

I have a large (>65.000 which seem to be the limit) library of mp3 & FLAC music, that I want to stream to my various Sonos units. The library is sorted A-Z, and I don’t want anything to crawl around and try to map the music, creating playlists and that sort of thing. I just want to go down the file structure, choose my album and stream it. Nothing else.If I do this on a PC, it works fine, no problems. But in this day & time, it would be convenient to do it on my IPhone, pref. using an app. Just like I do when playing Spotify or web-radio. And this is where I hev a problem - I cannot find any app that can do this.Either they want to create & download playlists, album art, etc. (Sonos, Plex, and others), or they do what I want (DLNA Player, zcloud, FLACbox etc. apps) but I can only direct the music to one (1) speaker. Where I want to hear the music on my Port, my Sonos One, Move, five, etc. simultaneously. Does anyone have a good idea on how to play a big collection of mp3

Hi,about three years ago, there was this big update, that gave the Sonos App it’s current black/white design. And with this update, a little but really reasonable new feature which had been integrated just a couple of month before, unfortunately disappeared again. Since then i filled in many opinion surveys and emphasized this, but I don’t think anyone’s listening.That new little feature was a little gearwheel icon in that main window where you could see all your rooms, that opened up a PopUp window with a direct shortcut to the “Room Settings” of that certain room.I like the logical structure of the Sonos App but find it somehow unnecessary to need up to 5 clicks to reach the room settings everytime - and I really do feel the need to adjust the Sub or Surround levels almost everytime I change the content on TV.The fact that you took away something that we already had frustrates me most. Does anyone remember this?It doesn’t have to be that gearwheel icon again. I for instance don’t nee

So I updated my Sonos app to S1 this morning and then my speakers. At the end of the update all my speakers were showing. Went to play some music and all grouped except my play:5 (1st gen). Went to go add the play:5 again to the group and it was gone. Play:5 just showing a white light. Restarted the play:5 and still won’t add. Factory reset the play:5 and added it again, it showed up! Went to play some music and it disappeared again. Restarted my WiFi just in case. All work fine except this play:5. Annoying thing is it was working fine this morning before the S1 update :(

We have the Sonos One speakers.  We noticed that the “Play” and “Shuffle” buttons disappear for many, but not all, of our saved albums. Often occurs after we play the complete album. To get them to reappear, we have to delete the album and re-save it.  We are using Amazon music for the music source.  Does anyone know why this is happening.  

How can I stream CBC music streams and podcasts from the CBC Radio & Music service?  I'm able to stream the live radio stations, "CBC Radio 1" and "CBC Music On Air" (aka Radio 2) from various markets, but I don't see the other CBC music streams or podcasts on Sonos that are available in the corporation's own CBC Listen phone app.

I dearly want to throw my complete Sonos system in the garbage but I can’t because I have invested over $7,000 in equipment prior to the S2 upgrade. The S2 upgrade has reduced my mixed system to barely operable garbage. 

Version 0.3 of SoCo-CLI, the open source Sonos command line controller for Windows, macOS and Linux, is now available:https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli/blob/v0.3.5/README.mdThis release adds an Interactive Shell Mode, and also provides an API to allow the use of SoCo-CLI as a simple, high level library for inclusion in other Python programs.For those of us who enjoy using the command line to get things done, the interactive shell is fast and convenient to use. The shell is started using sonos -i, then just type ? for available commands. Most of the huge range of SoCo-CLI control commands are available:https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli/blob/v0.3.5/README.md#interactive-shell-mode

I have purchased a CR200 remote and am unable to connect it to Sonos net. I have a bridge and 1 zone players connected over Sonos net (not wifi) and can connect my iPhone but the CR200 will not connect. It sees the network and says it is trying to connect but then fails and says your Sonos component was not found. I've reset my router and the Sonos system and reset it up from scratch but still no joy. I also tried pulling its battery out and didnt work, the CONTROL still does not connect.

The music I play from the Sonos app is registered in Last.fm. The problem is that the name of the used Sonos device is also transferred. The example below shows how my device named “ALRUM” is included in the artist name (Pavement). This is terribly annoying as I have to manually edit all registered plays on Last.fmIs there any solution for this?  

Hi folks, I can’t get 2 different Ports to play different music at the same time. I thought the answer was here, but I don’t see a “Rooms” tab in my S2 app. (Photo of that thread below). How do I play different music on 2 different ports from the S2 iOS app? 

So when I search for Artists, Albums or Songs within the Sonos app, I get no results from Tidal or Spotify.  E.g. search for Beatles and nothing.  However when I search Playlists I get results from both Tidal and Spotify. I have tried chatting with support but getting terrible customer service and nobody is responding to me. Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried authorizing again, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app and I have rebooted the router, nothing solves this. It is happening n multiple devices

I was wondering if someone could help me with this issue, which I have ignored for a couple months now. I have x2 Ikea symfonisk sonos speakers that I had linked to my Apple TV. Until December they were working fine but suddenly stopped working altogether. I decided to reset the speakers and set them up again and whilst doing this reset the Apple TV as well. The TV can identify the speakers (when I press the TV button on the handset) but when I select them as an option (tick the circle) it times out and reverts to the speakers in the TV. I know the speakers are working as I can link my iPhone to them but when done via the Apple TV box, nothing. I’ve carried out a few forum searches on this and it seems that others have had a similar issue. Most people seem to have lost the link. I haven't but the link no longer seems to work. Any help would be appreciated 

Hi All,Has anyone seen any official release notes for the new software update 12.2.3 released approx. 3 days ago?The Sonos site still appears to be showing the current version as 12.2.2 on the release notes page of their website?Strange the release notes aren’t updated at the same time that they release the software.Sonos the give away is in the name “Release Notes”… IE: Notes when you release software! 

I have just purchased a second CR 200 for my existing S1 system.  The first CR 200 is connected but intermittantly stops working.  The second controller will not connect to my system.  The message the CR 200 is displaying is that is it is “searching for Sonos components… The network configuration for this controller has changed.”  Understand this as it was connected to a different network.  Having spoken with Sonos they say they have a live issue with connecting new equipment to an existing system and I need to wait for that to be resolved. I beleive this is a brush off.  Can anyone assist? 

Would love to have the ability to have grouped speakers at equal volume in a quick way, with aclick instead of having to scrub the two to match. 

I recently purchased an M1 MacBook Pro with OS Big Sur. When I migrated my files from my prior 2011 MacBook Pro and updated/reinstalled the Sonos1 app, everything worked well except that my Playlists were not imported. I spent a long time on chat with Sonos, who directed me to various bits of information on the topic. Basically, it seemed that when Apple switched from iTunes to Apple Music with OS Catalina, the relationship between the music files and the xml files that support Playlists was disconnected. So they wanted me to find the correct xml files (iTunesMusicLibrary.xml) and add them as a folder in the Music Library. But they didn’t know where they were. I looked in the new Music files. There is a file called iTunesMusicLibrary.xml, but when I added it, nothing happened. Sonos suggested I call Apple to find out where the files were.So I called Apple. Their support department was worthless. First I did a chat, going through all the issues. That took a long time. I basically asked

Is the inability to cast YouTube music directly to sonos speakers a Sonos issue or a YouTube music issue? 

Hi there. My system includes one Sonos Amp + two Play:1 as LS/RS in Living Room, two Play:3 as stereo pair in Bedroom.Since I have just clean installed Windows 10 on my PC, I need to reinstall Sonos Controller (SonosDesktopController121.exe). Everything works fine, the app finds my existing system, but after that it keeps shutting down within seconds. Every time I start the app it shuts down again. I haven’t had time to do anything with the Controller yet.I have tried an older version (SonosDesktopController1205.exe) but the symtom remains unchanged.My Android app still works fine on both Samsung phones.Any help would be much appreciated.

About two years ago I requested an option for the Android widget to support transparency. The option is available on all my other Android widgets and I would think a standard practice encouraged by Google. Because the SONOS widget does not support transparency, it sticks out like a sore thumb. This is an easy modification. Android provides the basic UI support functionality (second image below) - the OS may also handle the transparency logic too. All you need to do is enable it. I requested this again about 11 months ago. This is pretty easy to do and yet it remains a deficiency to this day.Here, I’ll help you guys out a little.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6562962/transparent-widget-backgroundhttps://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgetsTwo screen shots below. The first shows the SONOS app widget being downright obnoxiously ugly on my home screen. The second shows how well-designed app widgets handle transparency and other widget related settings.