Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

Another vote for improving grouping/alarms.

It's probably more of an "automation" thing than an "alarm" but what's so hard about "7:00 am, play on Kitchen, Den, and Living Room" and "5:00 pm, play on Living Room and Master Bedroom" ??

Also, Alarms need a "preview" mode - how am I supposed to know how loud my alarm is going to be with just a slider or a number? There should be a "play this source on this speaker/group at this volume" option when setting any alarm.

Support to play Podcasts from other iPhone podcast manager apps than the default. For instance, I use Overcast.

Thanks.

I guess I need to add toggle to protect queue from deletion and one click play -needs to be added to my wishlist.

Feature request: show and filter on the explicit language tag in e.g. Spotify. Much appreciated! Greets from Holland.

Allow the user to choose whichever version of software they wish to run on their kit, thereby enabling regression if they so wish.

Please add a #playatendofqueue option in addition to Add to End of Queue. "Respect the Queue" made simple.

I love my Sonos system but as my eyes get older, I find the text is difficult to read - both size and contrast to background, on all interfaces - computer, tablet, mobile phone. Have I missed a setting somewhere? And trying to navigate the timeline for a song/podcast/audiobook - so difficult to be precise. The ability to lengthen the timeline to gain precision and increase font size would help those of us with ageing eye...... Many thanks.

My biggest wish:
Maybe I'm getting old, but I've wanted this for about 7 years since I first got Sonos.

I would like a browse by artist mode that actually SHOWS THE ALBUM COVERS - just like it does when browsing by album. It is just me? because this is how I always arranged all my CDs, artist->album, and I know the album covers often better than the titlres anyway so it would be MUCH more pleasing to browse this way than any of the current options.

But which album cover would represent the artist? Would Bruce Springsteen be scruffy, skinny Born to Run with Clarence over his shoulder, shaved and leather clad from Darkness, or would it be his biceps and butt from Born in the USA? 😉

On a side note, I would agree with an artist picture "artist.jpg" in the appropriate folder like you can do for the album art. Using a particular album as the artist pic may just kill the mood if I'm looking to play Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and I get a picture of the Thin White Duke next to Bowies name. God forbid the Kiss with and without makeup scandal!

Adding to above:

Maybe I should call it "browse by album - sorted by artist first"

Currently in browse by artist mode it's not attractive at all. You see a generic gray box to the left of every artists name and a ton of wasted white space to the right and above/below in that row. ...maybe I'm supposed to know how replace that generic gray box but that's all I see at the top level.

So instead of all that wasted space make each row a (perhaps sideways scrollable, or just multi-row) row of album cover thumbnails for that artists. Sure, include artists name above, or let user choose; there's enough space. Or, make it just like the albums view, sorted by artists first then album... so simple.

I understand there's a potential issue where some people just own 1 song from many different artists, or from each album, but it's hardly any less efficient than browsing by artist anyway when that's the case.

In the end it'd be nice if there was a way to distinguish full albums from individual tracks, but understandable if that's not possible since prob dependent on embedded data. But this brings me to the "browse by folder" option already in place, which would be perfect if only the album art was displayed that's within each folder. Takes more user intervention than ideal, but if sorted the way I have my albums sorted on my server within my folder devoted to full albums that'd be perfect