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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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skullc

Prodigy III

@Ken_Griffiths

I use sonosnet but all my devices are on my mesh router either wireless or via my 16 port switch and I reserve IPs on all my devices not just Sonos 👍

my 5g router is always in bridge mode

Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless

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sjw

Local Superstar

Now I'm getting pop up messages in the android app telling me that unless I update i will have ”limited functionality”.

The irony! 😂

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Panic_Attaché

Enthusiast I

Now I'm getting pop up messages in the android app telling me that unless I update i will have ”limited functionality”.

The irony! 😂

Whoever wrote the pop up message obviously has a sense of humour

Ken_Griffiths

@Ken_Griffiths

I use sonosnet but all my devices are on my mesh router either wireless or via my 16 port switch and I reserve IPs on all my devices not just Sonos 👍

my 5g router is always in bridge mode

I don’t understand, I thought you said you were using double Nat?

skullc

Prodigy III

@Ken_Griffiths

I use sonosnet but all my devices are on my mesh router either wireless or via my 16 port switch and I reserve IPs on all my devices not just Sonos 👍

my 5g router is always in bridge mode

I don’t understand, I thought you said you were using double Nat?

Nope the isp on 5g does but I circumvent it mainly because of the Xbox as it affects gaming but I have worked around it

Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless

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PercyVee

Listener

Just wanting to throw in my own $.02 about the local library thing. It was 90% of what I used the Sonos system throughout my home for. I listen to a broad range of Podcasts, and once a week or so, I would cue up a nice mixed list of all the episodes I had downloaded through the week and enjoy going from one to another as I cleaned house and cooked or whatever. Sonos has been silent this entire weekend, and the 8 speakers I have right now are nothing more than very expensive paperweights, and apparently will remain so for another month. Nice. Just wow.

Thanks for the ‘upgrade’.

Yes, I can listen to my Streaming music services, but that is NOT what I used it for, as I said, 90% of the time. So now I can use it for about 10% of the functionality that I had grown used to over the last 5 years.

Ken_Griffiths

@Ken_Griffiths

I use sonosnet but all my devices are on my mesh router either wireless or via my 16 port switch and I reserve IPs on all my devices not just Sonos 👍

my 5g router is always in bridge mode

I don’t understand, I thought you said you were using double Nat?

Nope the isp on 5g does but I circumvent it mainly because of the Xbox as it affects gaming but I have worked around it

I can only add if I had an ISP issue, then I’d just change ISP.

The link up-to and including any modem is the ISP’s issue …after that it’s my issue and up to me.

If I want to use any of these configurations…

A single router (ISP provided)
Two routers (Double NAT) (ISP provided …and my own Router/Mesh)
Two routers (ISP provided in ‘bridge’ mode or ‘modem’ mode …and my own Router/Mesh)
Two routers (ISP provided in router mode and my own Router/Mesh in bridged AP mode)

I find Sonos works perfectly - my system also works fine on SonosNet too with any of these configurations above.

My current preference is to run all my Sonos products on my own Router/mesh WiFi with the ISP router in modem mode. I moved away from SonosNet as it’s 2.4Ghz band is too slow these days, comparatively speaking.

Somewhat irrelevant, the home is gigabit wired anyway (which I did myself years ago) and has 3 x 16-port gigabit switches, plus to 2 x PoE switches for security cameras etc.

skullc

Prodigy III

@Ken_Griffiths

all cellular providers run some sort of Nat and I never said my speakers don’t work I am using 16.1 and listening to black sabbath vol1 on vinyl while I am typing this 😊

Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless

Ken_Griffiths

Just wanting to throw in my own $.02 about the local library thing. It was 90% of what I used the Sonos system throughout my home for. I listen to a broad range of Podcasts, and once a week or so, I would cue up a nice mixed list of all the episodes I had downloaded through the week and enjoy going from one to another as I cleaned house and cooked or whatever. Sonos has been silent this entire weekend, and the 8 speakers I have right now are nothing more than very expensive paperweights, and apparently will remain so for another month. Nice. Just wow.

Thanks for the ‘upgrade’.

Yes, I can listen to my Streaming music services, but that is NOT what I used it for, as I said, 90% of the time. So now I can use it for about 10% of the functionality that I had grown used to over the last 5 years.

Others have mentioned a similar thing, but I can’t see what might change in a month as far as a local library is concerned as the Sonos plan there is focused on being able to search/index the local library that’s showing in the new Sonos App now.

If your library is ‘perhaps’ not available now, then perhaps check the library is being shared using the SMBv2 (or higher) protocol, as widely mentioned here in the community. See this link as an example, albeit it applies to a windows shared library…

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-and-music-services-229131/adding-a-windows-smb-share-step-by-step-6892060

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baddevotions

Contributor I

What about adding songs to existing playlists. Seems like a basic thing you guys have skipped over.

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