Controllers & Music Services

I have two play one’s, play 3, beam and an Ikea speaker. I’m Sonos from the begging and thought it was great until S2.I had a bridge (as that came packaged with Sonos early days) and when I migrated to S2 and completed the compatibility test the bridge was the only thing not compatible. Not wanting to spend another £99 and having a £200 dual band router i removed the old bridge. I had lots of problems with the S2 app not see the devices, read the support articles and setup a dedicated “sonos” network on my router on 2.4 and connected the units through that. I’m so frustrated with the whole inconsistency of my setup now Ive had enough of it. The app will randomly show me all my system then the next time it will be minus the Beam. The two play ones I use for surround rears disconnect themselves. I have re-added more then twice now and i got up today and the left speaker had reverted to its old standalone config before i paired them up?I understand the need to move forward but i pretty mu

How come Sonos takes away a feature that came WITH the product??? And without even asking their fellow consumers!!! We are the ones who buy their products!!! It’s been months since i can’t play my Itunes music. If i can’t play my music on a Sonos speakers, why would I buy it?PUT IT BACK.

I can transfer my Spotify to my Sonos, but can you transfer a Sonos playlist to my Spotify??  and how??

Bandas Musicais, Cantores e compositores bem como artistas independentes, qual sugestão para melhorar a vida destes herois

I cant get S2 to fully install I download then app wants to update but its to a beta program I  previously asked to leave not a S2 update I cant see how to delete the beta on my system If I update to beta  it tries but does not install on android or IOS. Tried on windows it says my system is not compatible  as it has 1 comp that not compatible and that is clearly incorrect as I was on the S2 beta, I have uninstalled all apps then restarted by downloading S2 multiple times but just going round in a circle. Any idea how to get rid of beta? Or do I start a new system? I didnt want to do this as I will lose years of  historical set up and I’ve multiple speakers  I reported this on Monday when app came out but only had auto mail feedback 

In Android 11 media apps have their controls residing above the notifications in a separate section where you van swipe left and right between controls from different apps. Sonos controls are however not in this section but are sitting between the regular notifications (see screenshot).Please include them in the proper place. 

Cinemix seems to have vanished from TuneIn so, just for anyone who is missing it (I have it on almost all the time) the URL to add in Manage>Add Radio Station is http://cinemix.us/cine.asx

I’ve had Sonos for many years.  My system grew to 8 zones and although there would sometimes be problems there was never something that couldn’t be fixed by rebooting everything from my router through switches to wired and wireless Sonos devices.  Hey ho, this is the price we pay for humanity’s early steps to networking Nirvana (which probably won’t be reached in my lifetime!) Then came news of Sonos S2.  After getting past Sonos’ poor initial communications, and finding that most of my devices were S2 compatible I upgraded the remaining ones and apart from being annoyed that the new Sonos Port is functionally a backwards step (no volume control buttons, no pause/play button, no optical digital output) I was ready to say ‘Hello’ to S2. I hesitated. I had a splendid multi-room sound setup feeding both simple speakers and two traditional hifi stereo systems.  I didn’t want a load of hassle.  Life’s too short to spend hours rebooting, deleting and adding components or hanging on the ph

I love all the features on the sonos app and own like 10 speakers. But why doesen’t it provide a password function. It would litteraly solve all my problems. So fricking frustrating when people change the music.

The Sonos release notes page hasn’t been updated since the release of Sonos S2, also known as version 12.0.However, since that time, there have been several software updates to the app and the speakers, without any indication from the release notes page as to what these updates entailed.We know from this forum post that update 12.0.1 implemented a partial fix to Sonos Arc bass issues. Where else is Sonos hiding this information on a sort of half-disclosure basis? Do we know what changed in 12.0.3, or the most recent 12.0.5?I contacted Sonos Support to ask about this. The first agent said he would get back to me, and he never did. 3 weeks later, I contacted Sonos Support again and they informed me that they didn’t have any release notes to share, and that minor software updates don’t make it to the release notes page.The agent insisted that Sonos makes no changes to audio settings, sound profile, or quality with software updates. Besides this being patently untrue (see the 12.0.1 update

My song collection is 22,000 + titles. Larger than most Sonos user libraries perhaps. Sonos has a 1000 playlist and folder limit. If you have a folder with 10 different playlists, you have used up 11 of your 1000 allotment. In iTunes, I have 42 folders and 1080 playlists. I reach my playlist limit in folder 30. It is beyond annoying that this limit is set so low for me.What I don’t understand is why the limit is 1000. Sonos has a 65,000 limit on the number of tracks (does stereo count as two tracks I wonder). I get it that each song uses up incremental memory, but a list can’t be that much of a memory hog. Please comment if you have this problem. Perhaps someone from Sonos can explain the logic of a limit of 1000, or better yet, that there are plans to double the number of playlists you can have while the track limit remains as it is.

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Hello.  The Murfie website says they have ceased operations.  As of today, my collection is still streaming but I cannot reach anyone there.  I have about 600 discs uploaded as FLAC files there and am very concerned to be able to retrieve those in tact. Anyone else use Murfie or any suggestions? Thank you, Bigdog39

Like many other Tidal hifi subscribers, I was super excited to learn about S2’s support of CD quality streaming, and was hoping to build a whole-house system around it (currently just have a One for a bedroom).  However, being able to actually find the music you want to listen to is paramount to enjoying the app, and in this respect Sonos integration with Tidal has gone backwards from what was already a rather lackluster effort (and the reason I’ve not invested in a full Sonos system).  Not only is there no way to do simple things like changing the sort order of my Tidal favorite albums to “by artist” (something that has been requested going back YEARS), but now the app now doesn’t even include the the name of the artist in the list!  Are we supposed to memorize what album goes to an artist, in a list sorted arbitrarily shuffled by date added?  I’m sure the canned “its entirely dictated by Tidal API” yada yada response will be forthcoming, but that is not acceptable.  Other services

Ive just updated to the new S2 app and wanted to share some of my thoughts and hope to hear other peoples opinions since updating.    Positives: Sound quality seems to of improved following the update, I’ve tested home cinema and music and there seems to be an improvement in clarity, seems richer. I don’t know if this is my ears playing tricks on me but I’m as happy as ever with the excellent sound quality.  App opening, search and general usability/navigation seems faster. Room groups is a good feature and welcomed although I would love to see this working with Alexa so I can summon a group change via voice! Is this coming?  Not so Positives: The update process is very cumbersome and should be completely automated, instead your community is left faffing about trying to work out what order to update things. I was stuck being told my system wasn’t compatible for s2 for some time with no clear instruction of what to do to update!  All the hype and the chance to reinvent the UI and

Interestingly, I use Roon for my main hifi and as a byproduct use it with my Sonos setup. i have upgraded to S2, but out of curiously today plugged in my old Five and it works perfectly with Roon! So controlling both S1 and S2 with the same app, can even group zones….. why can’t Sonos app do this?

So I’ve tried playing hi-res (ALAC) files on Amp and Move after the S2 upgrade. Files up to 24/48 play back fine. 24/96 and 24/192 bizarrely play back in super-slow-mo; sounds like manually turning an LP very slowly. Under S1, these files just wouldn’t play at all.   Hi-res still plays back fine using Roon, but everything is still being downsampled to 16/48. Makes me wonder if the hardware actually supports 24-bit or if Sonos if just truncating the lower 8 bits.   Anyway, was hoping for native hi-res support but I’m happy to continue using Roon. I prefer the interface anyway.

The new Sonos S2 for iPhone and iPad is a complete retrograde step, stick with the old one if you can. I have had a Sonos system, 4 x Sonos 1, 1 x Sonos 3 and a Sonos sound bar for a number of years, without issue, however since upgrading the apps on my iphone and ipad, I have experienced serious connection issues, and frequently have to go to connect to the system using my Macbook Air in order to change station, or simply connect to the Sonos system. This is especially frustrating when I have to move from wherever I’m listening to the radio in the house, to the study in order to connect to and retune the system. This never happened with the old app. Before I get the usual advice about reconnecting my Sonos system to my network, the Sonos system has been completely re-installed several times, currently set to hardwired from my master speaker to the main router, and my Wifi signal strength around my home is in the region of 50Mbytes. Plus the issues only began following the upgrade, no

If you’re on the fence about upgrading to S2, my humble advice to you: DON’T do it!  Not a mature platform.   It’s slow, buggy, unstable, and should never have been released in in the condition it is in.  It has transformed me from a huge Sonos fan to having zero faith and appreciation for the technology. Oh, and by the way, there really is NO additional value over S1.  So there’s ZERO reason to make that move--stick with the mature option and adopt in a year or two when S2 sucks a little less--hoping that day comes sooner.

With S2 we have some improvements regarding hi-res support. I was really hoping for Tidal MQA support. Now, I am not wedded to Tidal but I do like it and would love for it be supported. Is there any chance of that happening in a new S2 world?    Thanks BW. 

Hello, During the last month or so I've been developing an app that lets you stream whatever you are playing on your computer to your Sonos devices. There is a delay so the app isn’t that suitable for movies, Skype calls. The main use case is to enable music not otherwise provided in the official app, e.g. live concerts on YouTube, Twitch and what not. The app is open source and completely free. You can download the app for Windows 10 at budgiestream.com   I would love to hear feedback on the app

Have this issue since Beta - Passed it on but never fixed before S2.  See 3 Photos below. Issue is when App is opened the 1st screen comes on & say “searching”. Stays on for 10 - 15 seconds. Then 2nd screen comes on & says “Not Found” & will stay on until I move mouse or press any key & then 3rd screen comes on which is the actual System. This issues goes back to the Beta Project. I have tried deleting app & rebooting to no avail. I have App on iOS & iPadOS with no problem. Works fine. I hope somebody from Sonos is monitoring this discussion???  

I was really excited to hear that Sonos was going to support hi-res audio, but I had a tough S2 transition.  After reconfiguring both my main wireless and Sonos networks, I’m able (so far) to hear songs all the way through and have not had a device go missing in days! After this work, S2 still is very, very slow to load.  Worse, it seems like a song will start to play before the buffer has enough data.  So I will lose the first few seconds, then have a rough few seconds, then have the song settle in. This happens when, say, playing something from Amazon Music on Sonos.  It doesn't seem to happen once the queue is up and running, unless songs are skipped and rebuffering is needed.  It does not happen with internet radio on Sonos, which is much lower fidelity.  It also does not seem to happen with my networked music files on Sonos, maybe because they’re 360K MP3’s and local, don’t need much buffering.  We have a very fast network connection and I have no lags at all when using the Amaz

Now that S2 has arrived and folks are sending in their hate mail since their favorite feature wasn’t included (or exactly the way they wanted) I figured I would jump up on a very small and rickety soapbox for my gripe. Sonos has shown they have the UI skills to surface the received audio format information into the UI I’d love to see it expand to the format beyond just the DD/Atmos logo for the Arc. basically, surface any of the information we all currently have to dig into the About My System screen to find. The Atmos logo is a start; complete the process.

Does it make sense Sonos APP for Mac to be taking so much memory (~2GB) , or I am the only one having the issue with it ? Analysis of sampling Sonos (pid 4600) every 1 millisecond Process: Sonos [4600] Path: /Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos Load Address: 0x100b2b000 Identifier: com.sonos.macController Version: 10.0 (48.2.61220) Code Type: X86-64 Parent Process: ??? [1] Date/Time: 2019-02-07 12:10:18.701 +0100 Launch Time: 2019-02-05 21:38:41.527 +0100 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.2 (18C54) Report Version: 7 Analysis Tool: /usr/bin/sample Physical footprint: 1.9G Physical footprint (peak): 2.0G