Contributor I

Question

New App is terrible

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 8, 2024
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Hi,

Is there a way to downgrade this poorly thought out new app to the previous version.

The new app is not user friendly and does not appear to have a “shuffle” option for my music. I have a NAS with over 12,000 songs and now it appears the sonos app will not provide the ability to shuffle the songs. Either I have to downgrade the app to the previous version or I will have to find another method to play my in house library on the sonos setup.

This supposed update is quite obviously inferior to the old one. Certainly won’t purchase anything else from sonos unless this gets rectified.

Butch

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inaytee

Lyricist II

The user friendliness of this version is so bad, it’s almost impressive. Luckily, I will be able to save some $ by not continuing to upgrade my hardware since their software is moving backwards :( Oh well, a competitor will emerge soon.. just like Spotify did to iTunes after they got lazy too

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Audiophone

Renowned Enthusiast I

Go to apkmirror.com and get the 16.1 package. Works great ... again

Don't forget to disable automatic updates in the app store AND the app itself

Keep it simple

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Robbie wasabi

Lyricist II

Hi,

Is there a way to downgrade this poorly thought out new app to the previous version.

The new app is not user friendly and does not appear to have a “shuffle” option for my music. I have a NAS with over 12,000 songs and now it appears the sonos app will not provide the ability to shuffle the songs. Either I have to downgrade the app to the previous version or I will have to find another method to play my in house library on the sonos setup.

This supposed update is quite obviously inferior to the old one. Certainly won’t purchase anything else from sonos unless this gets rectified.

Butch

I don't know, but unless you go through extra input of information 16 layers of rigmarole and total BS they won't even let you give thumbs up to more than two of these discussions which is a way for them to stop people from complaining....

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Survey

Contributor I

As others have said, the new app is a serious downgrade by Sonos. Of course Sonos could care less about users. If you want to upgrade the new app, the old version 16.1 is still available. Delete the new crappy version then install the old 16.1. This will upgrade the new app to what we used to have.

I can't find the older gold app (16.1?). Where is it?

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Survey

Contributor I

As others have said, the new app is a serious downgrade by Sonos. Of course Sonos could care less about users. If you want to upgrade the new app, the old version 16.1 is still available. Delete the new crappy version then install the old 16.1. This will upgrade the new app to what we used to have.

I can't find the older gold app (16.1?). Where is it?

Ok, I found an APK mirror file. I've got the earlier app back and deleted the new one. Thank goodness! Really annoyed that Sonos hasn't directed dissatisfied users with a link to do this. Who wants an app that prevents one shuffling our music, only allowing one to play one song. Whoever thought this was acceptable. Also I seem to have lost radio stations on the new app. Absolutely hopeless. Heads should roll for this. And to cap it all Sonos are now not answering my emails either to customer services or the CEO - or maybe they are just too busy dealing with other complaints!

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