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The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

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May 11, 2024
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Hey all, today we're sharing a message from our chief innovation officer, Nick Millington in the announcement here. Going forwards we will update that topic and we therefore close this one for further replies.

We set out to create a more personalized and effortless listening experience with the updated Sonos app. It was rebuilt from the ground up to ensure it could support future innovation in the years to come. For its initial rollout, we focused on how we could answer some of the most common requests from our customers, including increased reliability, performance, and faster access to music.

Many of you have shared valuable feedback on both the improvements that have made your experience better, as well as the areas where we fell short. We are listening to all of your comments and working to address them as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we will reintroduce the below features, while fixing bugs and performance issues. Thank you for your engagement and we look forward to building upon this first step to create a listening experience that meets everyone’s needs.

Available now

To access these changes, check for updates in the iOS / Android app store to download the latest version of the Sonos app. Make sure your Sonos products are also up to date.

Last updated: Oct 28, 2024. See release notes.

The update has the following version numbers:

80.11.38 - iOS
80.11.32 - Android

In this update:

Support for the all-new Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4
Music library improvements*
Improvements to product setup
Improved performance when browsing content in Home and in Browse on Android
Improvements to multi-system support on iOS
Fixes for multiple settings including Bluetooth display, EQ, and Sub bonding on iOS
The ability to schedule System Updates on iOS
Continued Voiceover improvements on iOS

* Requires player update - 81.1-58074 (or higher)

You can also follow along with updates in this article:

New Sonos App Update!

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larrywal

Lyricist I

When will the ability to play line in be added back??? It says improved compression of line in, but I can’t actually switch to a line in input???

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JohnTheGreat

Contributor I

How to roll back the app version on Android? I'm not going to use the new app.

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Samp2000

Avid Listener

For a the love of god and over 2500eur of expense. Please make volume and playback work. This is embarrassing

It’s all working reasonably well on an iDevice controller and the Home network here (see attached) - is there perhaps something restricting/interfering with your mobile LAN/WAN connection? I

No. It's on its own Sonos net. And all our friends are having the same issue

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Anonymous

For a the love of god and over 2500eur of expense. Please make volume and playback work. This is embarrassing

It’s all working reasonably well on an iDevice controller and the Home network here (see attached) - is there perhaps something restricting/interfering with your mobile LAN/WAN connection? I

Is this a bot account???

No. It's on its own Sonos net. And all our friends are having the same issue

You have literally just joined these forums and you are unpleasant to one of the most long-standing, helpful and well respected members here. The man is trying to help you for God’s sake. Was a simply friendly reply, perhaps with a ‘thank you’ more than you could muster?

My own account here is pending closure and deletion, and the more I read crap like this the more I know I am doing the right thing.

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aquasafenz

Lyricist III

Please reinstate the ability to shuffle songs from Apple Music. This feature was present in the old version of the app. Currently, I have to use a work-around using the desktop app to load my library and then shuffle songs from there as this still has this option. From there I can advance/rewind tracks from the app. I cannot, however, initiate shuffling songs from the app itself.

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sounds2k

Renowned Listener

How to roll back the app version on Android? I'm not going to use the new app.

Check the firmware on your speakers, if it’s the latest (16.3) Sonos have now blocked use of the older app, as I found out recently when trying to use it!

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JohnTheGreat

Contributor I

How to roll back the app version on Android? I'm not going to use the new app.

Check the firmware on your speakers, if it’s the latest (16.3) Sonos have now blocked use of the older app, as I found out recently when trying to use it!

I see... Well, they need to start a program to return/refund products, even long after purchase and completely unrelated to warranty clauses. As long as I have my money back, they can do whatever they want with the app, the hardware, make it completely unusable, etc.

Ken_Griffiths

I guess my message was not clear - I did all that back in April, and everything was working fine, until week before last when the latest update came along - and broke it again! The mechanism of setting up a share for the local drive and then adding that as if it were a network path, which was working before, now fails.

As I said above, it appears to work - the albums and artists and playlists are all listed - but now when you click on one of them, it fails. That happens whether I add the network path from the iOS app or the Mac app.

To be clear, my setup has the library on local drive on a Mac mini, Sonos Mac app running on that same machine, and adding it as local Music folder used to work, stopped working with the big update in April, then I did the workaround to pretend like it’s a network drive.

What changed week before last in the latest update that broke this?

What I understand changed, in the recent 16.3 firmware update, is that Sonos switched off the HTTP shares that used the ‘SonosLibraryService’ in the Windows/MacOS Desktop Controllers - you’re probably (still) using that type of share. Have you setup a ‘user’ for Sonos on your share, with the suggested ‘read only’ permissions and re-shared the folder via the new Sonos Controller App - entering the username and credentials of the user that you manually set on the shared library folder? If not, then that’s what you may still need to do.

I hope that assists because HTTP shared folders were removed in the 16.3 update by all accounts. Note aswell that SMBv1 shares are not available also - it must be SMBv2, or higher, that’s used.

Also note that this is not just something Sonos have done, other companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple etc. have got rid of SMBv1/HTTP shares because of the widely mentioned vulnerabilities, which you can perhaps see in an online search via Google etc.

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Miles Mingus

Renowned Listener

Sonos has mastered modern corporate performance. Where successful dissemlers rise in the corporate hierarchy.

Months of poor service with a clear failure. Looks like the white house. Is there a dementia diagnosis in the Sonos corporate suite?

jgatie

Sonos has mastered modern corporate performance. Where successful dissemlers rise in the corporate hierarchy.

Months of poor service with a clear failure. Looks like the white house. Is there a dementia diagnosis in the Sonos corporate suite?

Thanks you for your input. Very helpful.

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