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Keith N
Keith N
Sonos Staff
May 11, 2024

The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

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: 

 

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    Corry P
    Corry P
    Sonos Staff
    October 22, 2024

    Hi @Tyrbiter 

    The last 50% of users will have the app made available to them today - the rate at which new users were having the app made available accelerated as the week progressed.

    I hope this helps.

    "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
    Corry P
    Corry P
    Sonos Staff
    October 22, 2024

    Hi @Gaham 

    You don’t have the update available in the Google Play Store? Could you please post a screenshot of that page, being sure to show the version and date? Thanks.

    "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
    Tyrbiter
    Lyricist II
    October 22, 2024

    Hi @Tyrbiter

    The last 50% of users will have the app made available to them today - the rate at which new users were having the app made available accelerated as the week progressed.

    I hope this helps.

    Finally my S23 showed the update, but I had to go to the actual app page in the Play Store, I didn’t get it by refreshing the installed apps. I will see if the update has made it to the other 2 devices in the house, which it has and they both updated normally too.

    Parsnip62
    Enthusiast II
    October 24, 2024

    The compilation album thing does not seem to be fixed for me. I did a rescan last night but it made no difference. 

    Also, Sonos folks - reinstating album art is not on the road map. When will it be added? 

    Ian_S
    Prodigy III
    October 24, 2024

    The compilation album thing does not seem to be fixed for me. I did a rescan last night but it made no difference. 

    Also, Sonos folks - reinstating album art is not on the road map. When will it be added? 

    If you go into the about my system section, what software versions are listed against your speakers? 

    Parsnip62
    Enthusiast II
    October 24, 2024

    The compilation album thing does not seem to be fixed for me. I did a rescan last night but it made no difference. 

    Also, Sonos folks - reinstating album art is not on the road map. When will it be added? 

    If you go into the about my system section, what software versions are listed against your speakers? 

    81.1-58074

     

    System is up to date. 

    Ian_S
    Prodigy III
    October 24, 2024

    Are you able to post a screen shot of what you see now? How do you tag your compilations? Do you use the iTunes compilation tag, or set the album artist to ‘Various Artists’ for all compilation tracks? 

    Parsnip62
    Enthusiast II
    October 24, 2024

    Are you able to post a screen shot of what you see now? How do you tag your compilations? Do you use the iTunes compilation tag, or set the album artist to ‘Various Artists’ for all compilation tracks? 

    I'm away for over a week now, but my older compilations were ripped using iTunes however long ago with the compilation album tag. Newer CDs have been ripped using dbpoweramp.

    I've not checked to see if if there is a difference between them, but this was all displayed perfectly well until the late summer. 

     

     

    gicronin
    Lyricist III
    October 24, 2024

    My biggest concern is the custom services. I am not even seeing this as on Sonos’ radar? I have all my music stored in the cloud which I used to be able to browse from iOS and Android. Now it only works on Mac. If I already added items using Mac, I can play, stop, skip etc but not add new items. It is very annoying having useless phone apps but not as bad as if the desktop also didn’t work. I wish I had never upgraded.

      El_Magnifico
      Trending Lyricist I
      October 24, 2024

      Finally got it!

      I'll give it a go when I get home tonight. 

      I finally got it too …. and I’d have to say: Some progress has been made!

      1. It appears that the indexing bug is indeed resolved for my local library
      2. I can add and reorder and remove items from the queue, and the reorder and remove mechanics are intuitive.

      The bad:

      1. I did manage to get into a bad state where I had a queue, added a song to it, then wanted to remove a song from it -- and the queue, while it would still play, would no longer open for viewing or editing. “Something went wrong.”
      2. Still no album art from the local library.
      3. AND:  I hadn’t had this happen before, but over the course of playing 6 songs, 3 of them cut off unexpectedly before the end of the song.  I got disgusted and stopped playing music altogether.

      Update on the “bad state” above:  It appears that any time a track is added to a queue to “Play Next” as opposed to at the end of the queue, that the queue becomes undisplayable, and therefore uneditable.

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