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Contributor I
November 16, 2017

Lost alphabetical list of Pandora stations

  • November 16, 2017
  • 68 replies
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Upgraded to 8.2 yesterday, and my Pandora stations are suddenly listed by date added, rather than alphabetically. I can see no way to change the sorting method back to alphabetical. This makes it rather inconvenient to browse my stations. If there is a way to re-sort, I would appreciate the tip. If not, it would be helpful for Sonos to make both sort methods available, rather than eliminating one in favor of another.
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68 replies

Lyricist I
November 25, 2017
Please go back to Alpha sort or provide the option! Now Pandora is as bad as the Amazon sort that does not seem to have a method at all!
Lyricist III
November 26, 2017
Your latest update has absolutely ruined my pandora experience. I have listened to Pandora 24/7 for years. With the latest update, I spend more time looking for my stations; cannot add variety; some of the stations disappeared. PLEASE PLEASE FIX IT! IT's HORRIBLE!
Lyricist I
November 26, 2017
I must be taking crazy pills! Shouldn't upgrades make an app better? What sort of asinine move takes away an option? Is there a way to uninstall Sonos and reinstall with the 8.1 upgrade? This upgrade was not thought out at all-clearly not tested. Maybe it is better to play it directly through the Pandora alphabetical list. The less Sonos, the better.
Lyricist III
November 26, 2017
Thank you AEK123. I was also wondering if I could uninstall Sonos and reinstall with 8.1. Hopefully, we will get an answer. All I know is that my entire Sonos/Pandora listening experience is hideous now. COME ON SONOS! DO SOMETHING!
Lyricist I
November 29, 2017
It's been almost two weeks and still no movement on this serious problem? There was another update today (at least I got mine today) and I was expecting it to contain the fix. For some ridiculous reason, it didn't. I'm seriously considering ditching my paid Pandora account.
Lyricist I
December 1, 2017
The Pandora stations are not ordered by date added but rather in the order of when you last listened to them. But it’s still a VAPID idea. I know someone had to object during the process of making this change, so it wasn’t an oversight. Why would you do this? It’s almost as if a competitor were paying Sonos to make Pandora unpleasant to use! Get it together Sonos.
Lyricist I
December 1, 2017
Agree with multiple comments above.
Loss of alphabetical order for Spotify stations is intolerable.
Flipping back and forth from iPhone Pandora app is not a long term fix.
And, even if I wanted to do so, Pandora desktop app does not even communicate with Sonos.
Sonos --- please escalate to Pandora tech management to pursue a fix ASAP --- apparently Pandora decided the new "last played station" ordering.
Bad choice. Please restore alphabetical order option for BOTH the iPhone AND desktop Sonos applications.
controlav
Lead Maestro
December 2, 2017
This fix would be from Pandora, not Sonos: they control the order items are shown. (See also: large thread about Tidal having a similar problem).
Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Lyricist III
December 3, 2017
And furthermore........with the new update (8.2), Pandora stops playing constantly, after about 5 songs. Come on you guys. FIX IT! My Sonos is on 24/7......and I used LOVE it.....now, it's a big pain in the butt! FIX IT PLEASE!
Lyricist III
December 4, 2017
Are there really no adults in the room? You think people only want to see Pandora stations by the most recent ones they played? Fine. _Add_ that option. But don't take away the fundamental, simple, easiest of all sorts, the alpha sort.

Let's see, what stations am I most likely to remember?

Hmm. The ones I played most recently...but those are the ones you show me, so that's not very useful. Which am I less likely to remember? Hmm, perhaps the one I haven't played in a while. Maybe I'm done with my classical streak and want to get back to acid jazz or Abba or whatever. Sure, let me scroll through all my stations them to find what I want. Seriously, this change is a textbook example of stupid s/w development and poor UX comprehension.

Also agree with jazzybelle267. I never had dropouts in several years of Sonos use. But since the recent updates, yep, dropping out all the time, sometimes 3 or 4 times an hour. I haven't changed anything but the updates.