The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

And what about creating your own playlists in the Sonos app? Adding a number that you’re playing to an existing playlist etc. The ability to create and add songs to a playlist in the app is completely gone 

Yes, but that will be back in the next week or so.

We don't know exactly what functionality will be back. In the old app, you could also add songs to your Deezer playlist for example (and I assume you could do the same for Spotify and other services). Unclear if that's on the roadmap.

Not holding my breath for that one.

Besides the ones on the release planning mentiond above as well missing features:

- Volume control in numbers (1-100). (Android/Windows/WebApp. IOS unknown.) > essential feature for regular use

- Loudness setting for speakers > quick & nice setting for quiet areas

thx

Now that I look at the roadmap again, I realise that it doesn't actually say anything about playlists. It only mentions the queue for early June... 

Sonos will not leave the app without basic playlist functionality long term. It will return before we know it. No-one would think they would remove it with no intention of reinstating it. 

No-one appears to have the ability to think rationally for themselves.

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This is true and it could be longer than June. But I think queue functions and Sonos playlists are linked, like playlists depend on queue function so hopefully they are included.

But who can really say if they haven’t explicitly committed to it. Might be a week or months. 

Yeah!! It’s as stupid as just removing it from a working ecosystem used by millions… ooh.. wait...

I think you’re missing the important points. There’s clearly quite a few technical professionals & specialists commenting on here, who know what professional companies should and shouldn’t do, because they’re probably proud of their work. Yes, of course core functionality might return, but it’s how this absolute farce has been delivered, along with the CEO & CTO’s blatant tone deaf attitudes to customers (ref quoted reports & interviews herein) that are utterly galling.

Waiting for some unknown future date isn’t the way forward - that’s like you buying a car and being told we’ll add the brakes, lights and horn to the to do list; we’ll do the brakes next month and lights a couple of weeks later - it drives, so you’re ok for now, but we’re not sure when we’ll get to look at the horn problem..,

The fact is that new software has been installed globally in one fail swoop, which clearly hasn’t undergone standard industry testing & best practice, hasn’t been rolled out methodically, doesn’t include a rollback plan (standard best practice) and has literally broken the systems. Whether you use specific functions obviously varies, but when software updates stop things working or make them work sporadically - whether they’re used or not - then that software is broken.

Yes, there’ll always be some comments that haven’t been thought through (like yours), but many are from people who very much know what they’re talking about and probably spend most of their working lives trying to make things work first time. I’m sure none of these problems are down to the Sonos dev team; it smells very much of Senior Management / Marketing pressure to get something out the door, regardless of how bad it is. Fire fighting. 😕

A company that thinks it's a good idea to release a music app without the ability to edit the queue in 2024 is capable of anything. All rationality flew out the window last month. If someone had told me in April that Sonos would release an app this incomplete, I would have called them idiotic too...

And even if it's not long term, there's no telling how long we will have to wait. The roadmap is incomplete and vague. I wasn't blown away by the amount of added functionality over the last two updates.