Sonos App not working in MacOS Golden Gate Beta

I gone through those steps multiple times over the years, as some releases don’t work and I attempt to solve it.  Thanks though.

Apple DTS have finally admitted that there are “all sorts of local network privacy problems” in beta 4, and beta 5 might have some fixes.

DTS stands for?

Developer Technical Support

There’s a solution: Launch sonos app from terminal to connect to existing system.

open Terminal and run:

defaults read /Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/Info CFBundleExecutable

That tells us the exact executable name rather than guessing it.

If it returns something like:

Sonos

then run:

"/Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos"

Keep that Terminal window open and see Connect to Existing System suddenly finds your Sonos setup.

Later you can launch the app from terminal like this and close the terminal:

nohup "/Applications/Sonos.app/Contents/MacOS/Sonos" >/dev/null 2>&1 & disown

The Sonos App actually works fine on my Mac with MacOS 27 Public Beta 3 (and 4) installed. I just had to start it a couple of times and suddenly MacOS asked for permission for Network access. I use the app every day without any issues. It will be the last MacOS with support for Rosetta, so we’ll see what we can do next year.

WTF can’t Sonos fix this in the mac app?? Makes me want to change my entire 12 sonos device expensive audio systems next time I need to add or upgrade something

Thanks for the workaround!!

The Mac app was ‘retired’ from active development, a long time ago. You should also refer to this FAQ:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/supported-features-in-the-sonos-desktop-app

Yep, aware of that, but they still offer it as a download and should at least do a maintenance update for Golden Gate issues. It works fine and looks fine, so no huge development needed, if it would only open in GoldenGate without the terminal workaround to find the network. They recently did one fro Apple Silicone to get rid of Rosetta, so they could easily fix this.