Controllers & Music Services

We have 10 Sonos speakers and have them grouped for different rooms. However these hardly ever work properly even though we follow instructions and go into groups, create and apply. We ask Alexa to play a certain group and it misses some speakers or adds them on. We are so frustrated with the set up we are considering taking g the whole system out and goingvback to our original system which was Bose 

When I discover new music/content on my phone,     1. How to add it to my library, anshow to listen to things over Sonos speakers - that is, stream new music through Sonos speakers/system.?  ( content not not listed in the Sonos offerings)?…

I have two houses, each with their own Sonos systems. For a long time, I had a single Music Library (ML) at the primary house, hosted on my Synology NAS. When at my secondary house, I did not have access to that ML, as it seems you have to be on the same LAN. I recently installed a Synology NAS at my secondary house, which replicates the content on the NAS at my primary house. I successfully added a second ML to Sonos from the NAS at the secondary house, but when I try to access content at the secondary house, it seems Sonos tries to get the content from the ML at my primary house and can’t find it. How do I switch between ML’s on separate LANs? Do I have to delete the one on the other LAN, and then re-add it when I switch locations? Or is there a better way?

I have been unable to access Relisten via Sonos for a couple of months now. Works fine on my iOS Relisten app. Any thoughts? Many thanks. (I am on the S1 app with a mix of Sonos products, some not S2 compatible.)

Would be great to have a widget on iOS/iPad that displays the current song playing.

I have really enjoyed the Sonos Radio HD offering and prefer some of the stations over what Pandora does.Can you PLEASE make it available to stream from the web or an iPhone so I can enjoy when away from home?  Else makes it a hard subscription to keep compared to other offerings.

I have over 2700 songs listed alphabetically in my music library in iBroadcast cloud.  If I want to play a song in the middle of the alphabet I have to finger scroll the queue several times to get there in the Controller App.  Sometimes I have to finger scroll for several minutes depending on where the song lies in the alphabet, and every scroll has a loading time so that adds to it.  It would be helpful if there were a scroll bar in the queue or a faster way to get to a song.  Any suggestions?  I am using an Android Phone.  

Now that the new app is close to being back to the functionality of the original app, I have one major problem that I want to know if it’s just me.i have created a large queue of songs from my music library. On the pc app it shows the queue and also places the queue display at the currently playing song.on the iOS app the queue seems to reload every time I go into it and the album art then takes an age to load. It never puts the queue position to the currently playing song so I have to scroll endlessly to find it.i tried having the iOS queue open and then using the pc controller to move to the next song but the iOS queue didn’t change. Weirdly, if I open the iOS queue and while it is considering showing the album art I change the track using the  pc controller, the iOS album art appears instantly.

Can users can the functionality to set an alarm for a group of speakers?  For instance I have a group called morning that includes my bedroom and bathroom speakers. It would be great for them to play together at a set time.  The current configuration is not functional. I would have to check daily to make sure the speakers were last played together for the alarm to work as wanted. This has been a long standing issue and a widely requested feature for at least 2 years. 

I'm thinking of upgrading my phone. Is there a chance that the App works better on a newer device?

I am requesting that Sonos restore the last.fm scrobbling functionality. I have been using this service since 2008. 

Hi everyone! I am not familiar with the new Sonos version.How can I find music by styles or song names, as well as radio stations by country?

I just upgraded to a 2025 MacBook Air running Sequoia, and all of a sudden, the Sonos App is not available. It’s still on my older laptop, but I’d like to be able to control it from my new machine that I’ll be using most of the time. Any thoughts? I could download some third party app, but those have been a hassle in the past. The app is still fine on my iPhone fwiw.  thanks! 

Has any iOS app update removed the streaming quality in the app?if so, WHY??!!! Now I don’t know if the current song is being played using Dolby atmos or regular stereo!

It’s time that the software assists users with large local libraries . I know there are some workarounds, but sometimes I just want to browse  and I don’t want or need to begin the browsing at the top of a very long list. Sure searching for something is easy when you know what you want, but if you feel like a bit of a flick through your collection, Sonos has made it impossible. Frankly I think users deserve better after the amounts of money they have spent on their equipment.

I’ve seen similar questions before but no actual solution. S1 system  I’m trying to set up a new alarm to wake up with a specific radio station. I have other alarms in my home with that radio station, so it exists and works. I can find the radio station easily in a normal search and it’s added to Sonos Favorites. Bit when adding an alarm, I can’t select from favourites, only from some Byzantine menu of radio genres or by location which doesn’t show up my radio station in any obvious location (Smooth Hampshire in the UK, as it happens). Is there any way to find out where a radio station that Sonos knows about in ‘normal search’ is buried in the genre/location menu? Or some way to select a radio from Sonos favorites? Or copy an existing alarm and just change the room? Anything….?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/a-profound-mistake-sonos-ceo-talks-about-its-broken-app-and-why-its-been-so-hard-to-fix/

This is sooo frustrating!  For quite  few months now, I lost anything past the letter Q nor can I add anything back in my Sonos Favorites.  I have tried many things, with no luck. The crazy part is, I found those favorites in the Tunein app under my radio shows and my radio stations!  And if that were not strange enough, the Iheart app is listed under the Tunein app too!!!!  Nobody at Sonos seems to give a damn that their long time loyal supporters of their products cannot enjoy certain features they once could. WHERE ARE YOU SONOS SUPPORT!!!!!

When I’m already playing music on a Sonos speaker and add another one or a whole group, there is no option to quickly adjust/sync the volume for all speakers to the same level. I always have to manually adjust the volume in order to have the same volume on all speakers. I know that there used to be a function in Sonos app to slide to the left to mute them all an slide back to the desired volume in order to sync them all, but this does not work with the new app. There are other apps available for Apple Watch and Mac which support this setting. How can I sync the volume with the new Sonos app? Or please bring back this feature.

Hi,I created a couple of zones using SONOS Era100 Pro speakers. It seems in this configuration, it does not allow a subwoofer to be added. Only when i change a Zone to a room, can I link the sub. Ie, a room with a singe speaker or speaker pair. Is this correct? Is this a limitation at the moment?

Got just a simple question.Latest app iOS version… how does Sonos developers continue to screw crap up?  Once again a new update, once again connections screwed up.  Rinse repeat.   sincerely, Irritated user

Hi,Reading around it seems last.fm functionality was retired around a year ago. However my scrobbles had been working just fine until the very most recent app update. Now it only scrobbles a small amount, seemingly at random. Very disappointing, but since there hadn't been any update that I can see on these forums, are the team at Sonos looking at restoring last.fm functionality?The app is close to being as it was (though still no ability to create new Sonos playlists on the app, only edit existing ones) but this is a major loss.In the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions to enable scrobbling (simple scrobbler isn't working for me, even with the Sonos player ticked) I'd appreciate it.

This is worth a read for anyone who still has problems and is still checking the community in the hope that things will improve.https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/12/sonos-ceo-says-the-company-didnt-understand-the-real-world/I’m still not sure that they get how frustrating their negligence has been for some users but it looks like they are aiming to get every feature back in this financial year so end of September 2025. This detail may be in one of the other links reporting his comments. 

Room designations in the app do not stay fixed. How to fix?

Hello Community MembersThis is a step by step visual tutorial on how to set an Alarm with Music  (in the Sonos App) to wake up to; or as reminder, using your favorite tune. Chimes are set by default.  There are a few assumptions made. Such as that you’ve already added at least one (1) music service. This guide is very granular meaning although there are eighteen (18) steps listed many are intuitive. However, rather than leave anything to chance all steps are presented for completeness.  One of the steps involves selecting a music station of your choice. It can be a “Sonos Favorite” you've already set up in the app; or you can use the “Search” feature to select a station, genre, song or artist.  If you already have a music station set under Sonos Favorites; that you’d like to use as an alarm, you can skip to Step 8.  At the end of this tutorial there are also steps on how to “delete” an alarm.  It is hoped that you find this tutorial useful and that it enhances your enjoyment of Sonos.D