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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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Tony5

Contributor I

Watching - keen to hear.

I am fortunate in that I do have access but the search is pitiful regarding functionality, playlists are difficult and Sonos displays the content by song rather than albums….. it’s still a mess.

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MartinSF

Listener

After some more time wasting, I have found the way to do it and, as I write this, my Music Library is indexing.

I needed to add it as a shared network drive (having ensured that all sharing options were correctly chosen), which was -

\\my local drives name.local\music

The thing is that customers shouldn’t need to mess about like this. also, the music Library option should not be there if it does not work! GRRRRRRRR!

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Bobzilla1960

Avid Listener

So not only is Sonos unable to fix the app they are now spamming my inbox with 30 plus emails, all the same, telling me there is an update to a thread I am not following nor in my favorites (I have no favorites). I cannot even unsubscribe!

Way to go Sonos!

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GubGub

Trending Lyricist II

When will Sonos customers be able to access iTunes libraries?

Well, I can access mine now and have been able to for several weeks (using Android).

The app is still a major degrade from the old one and there are still a lot of things that I can’t do, at least not easily but that feature does seem to have been restored a while ago.

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

So not only can is Sonos unable to fix the app they now are spamming my inbox with 20 plus emails, all the same, telling me that the same person made a comment.

Way to go Sonos!

Yes, I’m getting repeated email updates for this thread and I don’t even subscribe to it… The thread is not in my Favourites list so I can’t unsubscribe! Grrr.

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Paul625

Contributor I

I certainly will never buy another Sonos product. Until a good substitute comes along, I’ll get by with an mp3 player and the Sonos audio jack.

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Pacific Jim

Enthusiast I

Where in my Samsung Sonos application do I find my iTunes library? I see my Pandora stations, “Your Services” and “Sonos Favorites”.

It is soooo disappointing to not being able to play my iTunes songs for 5 months and counting. I purchased Sonos to be able to do this.

MoPac

Headliner III

After some more time wasting, I have found the way to do it and, as I write this, my Music Library is indexing.

I needed to add it as a shared network drive (having ensured that all sharing options were correctly chosen), which was -

\\my local drives name.local\music

The thing is that customers shouldn’t need to mess about like this. also, the music Library option should not be there if it does not work! GRRRRRRRR!

Don’t give Sonos any ideas about eliminating Local Libraries!! Very scary!! Well… There’s always WiiM.

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stevegittleman

Lyricist I

I had all of the same problems that you are all mentioning. I moved My Library to my NAS drive. I worked with a level 3 tech, who changed the channel that my Orbi router was using and now I can search my library and everything works ….almost perfect. There is still latency with the volume controls.

I hope that they will continue to improve the new app, and YES, I agree that the old app was much user friendlier then the new app.

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BRJ

Lyricist II

I dropped out of this discussion a few weeks ago but I’m dipping back in with 1 point and a question:

I can airplay streaming music from my phone, independently from the Sonos app, to all my Sonos rooms and it just works. (Apologies if you all know this already but it was a bit of a revelation to me!) Yet more proof, if we needed it, that the hardware is still good but the new app software is rubbish.
Am I missing something or can you still not create new playlists?

Thanks.

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