Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

Shame I can't select all of them (except leave it alone) !!!!
Need a multi-select poll

haha - yea it would be nice to select multiple. But it is nice to pick a favorite.

Why don't you give your top 10 list here - in priority order.

Mine from highest priority to lowest

1) Party Mode
2) Show New Music
3) Save Backup settings/favorites
4) Better Equalizer
5) Casting from Native apps (Google Casting)
6) Easier Pairing/unpairing Sub
7) Improve alarm
😎 Improve layout (specifically tablet landscape)
9) Full Mode on Playbar when watching TV
10) "Add From Here" to queue

Integration with Rovi would be my #1. I listen to a huge variety of music, and make extensive use of allmusic.com and other similar sites. Would be great to have the information and reviews they provide integrated into Sonos' already great search function.

I listen to a huge variety of music, and make extensive use of allmusic.com and other similar sites. Would be great to have the information and reviews they provide integrated into Sonos' already great search function.
Yes please, and Wikipedia.

So on the old ask forum wishlist items would get lost.

I didn't like the Ask forum, but I don't think that the wishlist items got lost over there. There was a separate Ideas section, and ideas were ranked by popularity, and you could re sequence them by newness, or Sonos response. You could see which items that you had voted upon.

It is this new forum which causes them to get lost, and I presume that is by design, ie. that Sonos prefers it that way.

If they are real about customer engagement, they should resurrect, and improve upon that facility IMO.

A good initiative though Chris. 😃

1. Allow browsing and queuing from a DLNA server .. to overcome the current lame browsing experience given by limitations in the Sonos UI
2. Populate the track and album info facilities with information from sources such as Wikipedia, and or AllMusic.com, and or Last.fm
3. When searching by artist, the results should include albums from the composite artists index
4. Add non-cached tag information into the track info facility; eg. Date released, Composer, Date ripped, Lyrics, etc ... hint: I added the info into the track tags because it is important to me
5. Play|queue from here facility ... or give the mobile controllers a multi-track selection facility
6. Display the composer tag on the Now Playing screen
7. Allow for a Genre->Composer->Album index, ie. additional to the Genre->Artist->Album index which you have
8. Allow for a Composer->Genre->Album index, ie. additional to the Composer->Album index which you have

More control over volume sleep and alarm fade in fade out, custom fade time and duration, more graceful fades with dynamic and smaller volume changes.

Lowest volume level (1 tap) on the controller is OK in the night to start sleeping , but there is no fade out, the music is cut abruptly.

Camillo

Expanding on Camillo - I would like a fade in / fade out on all music changes. Such as your listening to a song and you go in controller and pick a new song. It would be great when you chose the new song instead of the one playing abruptly stopping it would fade into the new song!!! Same deal then when queue is finished - if set to fade just fade out (custom length of time).

Better ability to handle casting from native applications is an interesting one. I use AirAudio on my Nexus 5, which sees the Sonos as a sort of UPnP device and allows streaming of whatever audio is currently playing on the phone (I guess on a per-room basis, though I only have one room in my Sonos).

It looks like this: http://s9.postimg.org/w0jhxse7z/Screenshot_2015_09_06_11_20_08.png

It also pops up a notification as soon as I walk in my house and connect to WiFi, asking if I want to start streaming whatever I was listening to while I was out to Sonos, which is damn awesome.

Now this works by some very low level audio routing changes in the OS so it needs root access. There are a couple of other apps on the Play Store do the same thing and which all need root as well, so how possible it would be to get the Sonos controller app to do something similar without root I don't know.

One alternative would be for Sonos supported apps (Spotify, Soundcloud etc) to have Sonos Controller as a 'share to' option in Android (and whatever the iOS equivalent is), so you could fire your currently playing Soundcloud playlist from your phone to the Sonos Controller and it would load the same playlist, at the same point in the same track. Rather than actually sharing the audio I guess this would just need to send a bunch of XML with the track URLs / GUIDs and current playback time stamp to instruct the Sonos system what to play.