The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

What about the local network access bug - as to where it’s requiring local network access, we’ve given it - and it’s still not allowing me to join my existing system on the phones wife…

How about roll back to the old version.  Fix all the stuff, and then release it after June!  Make a dang headphone only S3 version if you must.  Try to win back some good will by doing it right!

Sonos widget?

What about making physical volume buttons finally work as literally every other app supports? Or a Lock Screen widget?

I think it’s a great improvement that you are giving dates for these.  I would suggest they are _much_ more widely distributed.

I was pretty disappointed with the update but when I saw that people who have active alarms and only phones now cannot shut off or modify them (without a complete system reset) I realized this was a much bigger f-up than even I realized.

@jedmunds2017 , That would require an underlying change to Sonos, so that the ‘player’ resides on your controller, rather than on the speakers themselves. 

There has been a lot of discussion of this around here and it isn’t a App v80 issue.

I’m still confused by this as it worked years ago prior to 15.6. And while that was a “hack” basically, I believe and the Sonos response for removing it was:

“The way these features were architected do not meet Apple’s experience guidelines for developers and no longer offer a reliable control experience.”

Keith, I appreciate you and the team trying to stem the bleeding.  I don’t envy your position of having to clean up self-inflicted consequences from management decisions.

That said, these timelines strike me as tripling down on the tone deaf and self-congratulatory  “courageous” marketing messages being sent out.

You are telling me, the market leader Sonos speakers won’t be able to add a song to the listening queue for a month.  This capability was available last week, but no longer due to an unannounced impact of the “upgrade.”  

If I tried to suggest surprising users by taking away core functionality and promising to bring it back in a month, I’d be laughed out of a job.

The most obvious way to get back to current state parity is to provide access to the v16.1 app.  No need to rush development and testing on the v80.x.  Let those for whom the new app works continue.  Let those for whom the new app does not work migrate when core feature parity is achieved.  The last thing you want is to make the above promises and introduce new bugs.  

Yet, for unspoken reasons, this option is never mentioned.

I’m all for change and creating a new platform for the business.  I would like to see Sonos succeed.  However, I haven’t seen evidence of Sonos having the judgment to know how and when to course correct.

Best of luck.

How about those bugs:

• trueplay doesn’t work - I have in ceiling speakers and all it does is make the test chime from the amp but never continues 
• can’t add a new Sonos device to a room with current devices 
• can’t turn off WiFi on Ethernet connected devices. By default newly added devices using Ethernet only use sonosnet
• when airplaying music, you can’t stop playback and then play music on those speakers using the Sonos app. I actually haven’t been able to get any Apple Music to play on the Sonos app in any of my amps.