Contributor I

New Sonos v80 app is so annoying

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 7, 2024
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I just downloaded the new v80 Sonos S2 app and first impression is not too good. Hope they change this soon. This is what is found

The app gives an error when trying to play a radiostation on MyTuner Radio service in the Recently played section.
Some contact card are so big that when you want to swipe down to close it, I open the Homescreen/Lockscreen of my iPhone.
When I want to play a radio station from the Favorites section an additional unnecessary card is opened with only a Play button. Why not start playing without opening this screen?
The favorites are now mixed. So Spotify and RadioStation favorites are in one list. That is annoying.
The list of favorites is not sorted in any way neither can they be ordered according to my favorites.
The room for the name of the system on top of the Home Screen is very limited and so, it is always abbreviated with dots.

What is your annoyance?

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buddyrich33

Renowned Enthusiast I

No queue control… cannot add tracks to the queue or manage the queue. No local library search. Harder to access dialog and night mode settings. No more lossless and hires tags or codec info on inputs (TV sources).

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buddyrich33

Renowned Enthusiast I

Also can’t remove Sonos Radio… Don’t use it, don’t want it… wish I could remove it from my list of services.

Also don’t appreciate the link to the Sonos store in system settings. I thought I opted out of the popups. This is permanently there.

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mapples

Lyricist III

I can’t add services and the search function still gives me a message about something wrong is happened. And it’s even not possible to add a alarm.

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cedrblanc

Lyricist III

I use a local library, with bonob or SMB access with a NAS, and well this has disappeared with the new version.
How can a new version be so regressive?

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Cochonou

Enthusiast II

Yes, the shortcomings of this new version are quite jarring… unless I’m mistaken:

No practical queue control.
No library search.
Missing such a simple feature as playing all the songs from the library shuffled.

I’m not for gratuitous negativity, but how could they release a version which is such a step back in features ? It actually does not support most of my regular use cases. And unfortunately, you cannot easily roll back to previous app versions on iOS…

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cianw2000

Lyricist I

And you can’t change the line-out setting on the Port any more or see what format is playing (eg Dolby 5.1) on the TV device

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sdh0407

This is a fail. Not only is it not an improvement but features that used to work no longer work. On whole its a downgrade.

Key issue for me is the home screen where all content is mixed together in one section under Favorites. All podcasts, Pandora, tunein stations and playlists are listed in one block. Maybe this is a bug but the fact that there is no way to sort/arrange the content is silly. Also can’t find a way to get to my music library.

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sdh0407

In comparing the web app to iOS app it’s clear the iOS app has major bugs. I have a guess at what happened. Someone’s bonus was tied to rolling out the software on a target date. That guy just walked into his boss’ ofc and said Mission Accomplished.
All the programmers will be working double shifts to clean up this steaming pile.
anyway the web app has more functionality but it too is a buggy web page with slow responses. I have a 1 gig connection and it’s plenty laggy with a basic task like volume.
I was worried about going to s2 from s1. That was smooth. This is the one I should have waited on but I hit Update All without scanning the list.