Please go back to the last app, the update sucks SO bad!

I truly think that keeping the nav bar always visible at the bottom and some esthetic changes (less white, more rooms per page in rooms menu) would make this a darn good version. I really never liked the navigation in the prior version (I did like the simpler navigation in the old blue version). I think I'm going to like this version the best with some needed tweaking. And I do have faith those tweaks are coming sooner than later.

Personally - I have always hated most native app designs. I use Apple music a lot and use it traveling (with Bluetooth speaker) and I really hate it. I always want my familiar Sonos back. I like Sonos being service agnostic. If I have Apple Music now, Spotify next month, Google Play the month following.... it all works the same in sonos. I right now have Spotify, apple music, and amazon music. Its very nice having search results for all in one place and I can play to any room not worrying with what service I'm actually using.

Maybe it would be good for all of us here to point out what things they would like to see in next re-imaging of this version of the application. The old version will never return. Lets focus on making this version the best thing yet vs. just trivial bickering about everyone's feelings.

I will start

My wishes:
1 - more rooms per page in rooms menu (way to much white space and large pictures - need to see as many rooms as possible)

2- nav bar at bottom stays there no matter what. Gives consistent navigation through app.

3- less white everywhere. Need creative use of more black sceens (best would be color customization but sonos hates customization)

4- Party mode/queue lock/jukebox mode. Whatever you call it. Still needed more then ever with changes made earlier this year (I doubt I will ever see this come)

5- Full mode toggle while playing via toslink cable in Playbar (now only full mode available when playing music sources). Should be a toggle like night mode.

6- easy way to quickly add a sub to a room (its not to bad these days but still requires going in room setup menus)

7- Permanent groups / Virtual Rooms - seriously its almost 2018 are we going on our second decade of this request.

Happy Holidays everyone!

And this is typical of the way you 'communicate' on this forum as andrewmk pointed out a couple of posts ago.. You care so little about what others have to say that you need inflate and exaggerate what they have been posting, just so you can ridicule their point, and that time and time again. Because dissent is clearly not allowed around here.

Amen!

And yet here you are! :8

Dissent is most certainly allowed. I've never said others should not be allowed their opinion. The only people calling for censure around here are the ones telling me to stop posting.

No,no one is telling you to stop posting. This is about you bullying people for voicing critique, and you know it.

I get it. You don't like what I have to say or the manner in which I say it. Unless I am violating the forum TOS, that's your problem. Deal with it.
QED

Like I said, that's your problem.

Plus, it's absolute BS. You people pressured John B to stop posting his opinions that mostly have to do with helping people, and he's the nicest guy in here.

Someone asked for a post by people moving to other systems.
I have not expanded my Sonos system, the last 4 zones I have put in since 5.x are Chromecast Audio with SMSL amps and various speakers depending on the needs of the zone.
Is it as pretty and compact? No, but the sound is better and it works.

As far as my system issues since the 8.x update I am running all Ubiquiti hardware. I am now testing the system with out the bridge it has run off since 2013.
Yes the bridge was on a different channel, no my spectrum is not crowded. Yes everything is static IP and yes even though it is unnecessary to reboot the AP and USG I did anyway.

Next week for giggles I will reset and hardwire all of my Sonos gear, if the controller keeps dropping the system and lagging then it is good-bye.

"You people".... Nice words JGatie! Anyone else had a bullying PM from JGatie. I have. He wants to be top dog on here and will not let anyone else rule the roost and always has to have the last word. Typical bully.

Sigh.

Yes john, you people, meaning those on the anti 8.0 side. For I have not seen anybody who likes the new release telling John B to shut up.

Ummmm......

Happy Christmas anyone?

Can’t wait for version 9 so we can do all this again (and, no Jgatie you must resist the temptation to say that you will then be proved right)!! ;)

Andrew

Merry Christmas Andrew.