New interface is terrible

I'm not sure who designed the desktop controller but now I can't see a damn thing on it. Black and white looks cool and all, but there is no contrast on the buttons, the white text is blurry on my 27" monitor and it gives me a headache looking at it. Please please PLEASE go back to the old skin, or at least let us choose it as an option.

For Windows 10 users there are several 3rd party Sonos apps in the Store. Including mine. Try them out, find one you like. And for the record, I hate the blackness of the new Sonos desktop controller. I run my own app in White mode, except on my Xbox where Black mode looks easier on the huge screen.

What are you guys smoking? Just when I though the previous design was terrible... How is it possible, I don't understand?!

I was pleading for a better designed app for years! I've been in countless beta cycles. Nothing changed, absolutely nothing. This is my message to Sonos 2 years ago from 10 August 2016

I'm deleting the app from my system.

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Comment on the app development (concerning all platforms but with special emphasis on desktop)
How can one have such an amazing product on the hardware side but being so sloppy on the software?

Are there any plans to overhaul the UI anytime soon? I’ve been in the Beta update cycles for years and the improvements are painfully incremental considering any other platform leaping lightyears ahead. Including non-linear navigation, drag & drop, rich visual feedback are completely absent. Only drag&drop from 90s is partially implemented.

The App on the desktop seems extremely static, linear impersonal UI, with non-sensical sliding back and forth between a myriad of textual menus. It's an appliance like solution for one-fingered blue (now black) alien who loves to read very similar two word sentences.

Sorry for my language, I the hardware and I know it’s hard to build anything valuable in UI with so much competition on other fronts. But the UI is what your clients look at and use hours every day.

Just imagine how much time of it is wasted because of really bad design.
Please, please do something about it.

It's too bad the desktop app is neglected. Your competitors offer a full spectrum of experiences and deep discovery tools with social integration (without the hardware).

There is one simple and maybe obvious solution - SONOS could adapt proven methods for rapid UI dev cycles from others using web technologies (and package them as native app) with all the benefits of the web
and/or
integrate with the user's system and become a system layer offering secure network connection to the speakers. (AirPlay-like integration but with support not limited to iOS). "SONOS Aether"

Just noticed the update broke my connection through Spotify. Nothing works

For anyone who wants to downgrade here are the links.

http://update.sonos.com/software/mac/mdcr/SonosDesktopController91.dmg
http://update.sonos.com/software/mac/mdcr/SonosDesktopController90.dmg

Version 9.0 needs an older firmware on the speakers but 9.1 works but I noticed that they removed all the audio settings from the app, only Date/Time settings remained. Please, who the hell needs Date/Time settings in a music controller app?! What a piece of crap really...

The PC Controller update is horrible. Please add a skin button so we don’t have to look at this monochrome display. The PC Controller was the last saving grace for me because they destroyed the Smartphone app back in 8.2 so we can't find anything or manage my groups anymore, and now I have an 80's looking monochrome color scheme. I understand that things change but losing functionality with each release is total crap in my opinion. The smartphone app is so hard to use and now this. I wish I never upgraded. Can someone build another interface based on 7.0 and just leave it alone? You could call it Sonos Classic, and I would buy it because I hate this new interface. I'm thinking of pulling out my CR100 controller..............

This isn't going to be popular but I actually like the refreshed look. To me it's crisper, more modern, fits in more with the look of other apps and now is closer to the look of the mobile apps. I really can't see a downside. Everything is very clear on my Macs (and my eyes are not the best these days).

This is obviously a very subjective thing.

On the other hand, the removal of some of the functionality is not so great and removes some convenience but not a huge deal to me.

+1 for this - I don't need a BLACK interface on Windows. Yeesh.
AND - the app auto-resizes to the largest possible size and can't find it's position on the desktop EVERY TIME I OPEN IT! I use a two-monitor setup and have it set to a certain position and I have to reset it EVERY TIME. 😞 😞 😞

I thought the change to bring it in line with the color of the mobile app was generally a good idea, but I think the legibility has gone down. The dark gray room groups on the black background are really hard to see, at least on my monitors, and the gray text on the gray buttons on bottom of UI are poorly legible. In addition some of the UI widgets appear a little blurry, such as the sound slider, the grouping icon, etc. (I'm on Windows 10.) Finally, I use small icons on my dock, and the 'Sonos' lettering is completely unreadable. They should replace that with their icon they use in the title bar, or something, to make more user-friendly. Now I look for the little black icon with a smidgen of white to know which one to click on.

All in all I think this could have been done better, but wasn't the worst thing in the world, for what it's worth.

The new flat black with bright white interface is horrific. Very hard on the eyes , looks not polished at all. Please consider going back to the older color scheme, thanks.