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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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furacaopr

Prodigy III

At 85 pages this thread is a tough read. One thing I am missing is link to Artist details when a song is playing. The old app (which the current developers have clearly never used) had links in the three dots menu (...) that gave you a link to the artist and album playing. This great whn playing in shuffle all songs and you liked a track and wanted more from that artist. A useful feature just gone, forever?

I can see the “Browse the artist” in the 3-dots menu on Android. What I am missing is the option to go to the Album.

The screenshot is from Sonos’ MKT material. So, it was supposed to exist, but still missing as of today's version 80.09.04.

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El_Magnifico

Trending Lyricist I

Android users wait almost a month since the last update and get Light Mode/Dark Mode settings?

Pretty sure that’s not high on anybody’s list. It wasn’t showing on any of the roadmaps or promised feature restoration lists. Nobody on this thread, or on any other thread, has been crying that they might leave Sonos because Dark Mode doesn’t work.

Make queues work properly. Make local library search and indexing work properly. Make Album Art work properly.

You wouldn’t believe how important Dark Mode is to some people. And not for “productivity apps” like a coding IDE tool you spend all day looking at, but any app you use for a minute here or there. Priorities are hard and everyone has their own “must haves”. There’s a reason why Sonos want to get dark mode working. There’s a reason they were bragging on Twitter yesterday about getting your expensive hifi to once-more function as an alarm clock. Our priorities (a working, preferably easy-to-use music system like the one we used to have) are irrelevant next to the kinds of things Sonos think are important (terrible new UI design and non-core functionality).

So yeah, we all have to just be nice and patient and hope Sonos one day restore the functionality our systems used to have.

Oh, I don’t totally disagree. I like me some Dark Mode. And yeah, I don’t have real insight in what everybody who isn’t me values the same way Sonos might. But a Sonos exodus, to the extent that it is happening and will happen, will be a result of broken core functionality -- not lack of UI polish.

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Parsnip62

Enthusiast II

I've been patient with Sonos but it is wearing thin.

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svah

Contributor I

Any time frame for side scrolling alphabet on local music library folder? I know you can manually search, but I always found it easier to tap on the side of the list and jump straight to the alphabetical listing that way. Otherwise my set up is more or less back to what it used to be

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Parsnip62

Enthusiast II

Music library compilations are still a mess.

Madening.

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

Music library compilations are still a mess.

Madening.

Especially as this is a brand-new bug introduced in August. I’ve taken to getting Foobar to spit out a .m3u playlist as I come across affected albums, so now I have two types of local library browsing - “By artist->album” and “By workaround playlist” depending on whether the album is a. all tracks with the same artist, or b. a compilation / contains guest artists. And of course you can’t use the mobile app to access them, because local browsing is still “underdeveloped”, and the “no alphabetical index” UI navigation decision also affects imported playlists. Still, serves me right for buying music instead of just renting it...

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Parsnip62

Enthusiast II

Music library compilations are still a mess.

Madening.

Especially as this is a brand-new bug introduced in August. I’ve taken to getting Foobar to spit out a .m3u playlist as I come across affected albums, so now I have two types of local library browsing - “By artist->album” and “By workaround playlist” depending on whether the album is a. all tracks with the same artist, or b. a compilation / contains guest artists. And of course you can’t use the mobile app to access them, because local browsing is still “underdeveloped”, and the “no alphabetical index” UI navigation decision also affects imported playlists. Still, serves me right for buying music instead of just renting it...

Madening. It's just nowhere near good enough.

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Makismom

Contributor I

I just want to be able to sort my Sonos Favorites lists alphabetically again…. Is this really so hard?! My logical brain is struggling to deal with random order…. ☹️

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

I just want to be able to sort my Sonos Favorites lists alphabetically again…. Is this really so hard?! My logical brain is struggling to deal with random order…. ☹️

It’s not random. It’s a “perfectly logical” by-reverse-date-added (when you expand, you get the list broken down into “All favorites by recently added”, “Albums sorted by recently-added”, “Artists sorted by recently added” etc).

I suspect this is Sonos thinking that most users want to bookmark their latest playlist, rather than weirdos like me who mostly want quick links to their 20 favorite artists. Or maybe it’s just lack of time and attention to design (as someone who builds software for a living, I know how hard it is to argue for showing items in “meaningful order” over “any seemingly-random order will do”).

106rallye

I would agree. I hate databases that automatically sort on “relevance” (probably by how many times the word I searched for is mentioned), when in my job the most recent addition is always the best. For music “date added” seems irrelevant. For me folder view would work best - and I hate Plex does not do folder view.

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