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Chris
Lead Maestro
August 13, 2015

Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

  • August 13, 2015
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So on the old ask forum wishlist items would get lost. Thought I would post a topic where people could vote their biggest wish for controller software improvements.

Wishlist Items for Controller

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Contributor I
October 13, 2016
Has there been any further response from Sonos on this? (I quickly scanned the thread and haven't seen one). I am DESPERATE to get a log of all my prior plays back.

I don't know if it's related, but now Spotify is not logging my play history either. If I use Spotify through Sonos, none of my history is logged. So I no longer have a queue history if I accidentally wipe it out, and I no longer have a history in Spotify. This is dreadful for a person in the music business.

I can't rely on keeping my phone in my hand and mark "SAVE" for every stinking track I think I might be interested in down the line when I used to be able to scroll through a history list.

I've taken to running Spotify on mute in parallel on a spare phone in iOS on an IF recipe that logs my history to a spreadsheet in Google drive to capture my listens. It's freaking ridiculous!!!! Bring back the permanent queue.
Contributor I
October 13, 2016
Has there been any further response from Sonos on this? (I quickly scanned the thread and haven't seen one). I am DESPERATE to get a log of all my prior plays back.

I don't know if it's related, but now Spotify is not logging my play history either. If I use Spotify through Sonos, none of my history is logged. So I no longer have a queue history if I accidentally wipe it out, and I no longer have a history in Spotify. This is dreadful for a person in the music business.

I can't rely on keeping my phone in my hand and mark "SAVE" for every stinking track I think I might be interested in down the line when I used to be able to scroll through a history list.

I've taken to running Spotify on mute in parallel on a spare phone in iOS on an IF recipe that logs my history to a spreadsheet in Google drive to capture my listens. It's freaking ridiculous!!!! Bring back the permanent queue.


And I should add, keeping a history of all plays AS LONG AS I WANT UNTIL I PURGE IT should be from ALL SOURCES not just Spotify. One of the beautiful things about Sonos is that it creates an index from all sources: Spotify, Mixcloud, my personal hard drive libraries, Soundcloud, etc, etc......What a wonderful thing to have a list of listens as a master across sources............
Chris
ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
October 13, 2016
The way I go about it is I always use the queue. As I chose and pick songs I keep adding them to the end of the queue. Then I save the queue with something like October2016 and I have a bunch of sonos playlists which are just record of all the songs I had been listening to and that other friends/guests added as well.

Works well for me.

I don't see Sonos having any auto saving of history.
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Contributor I
October 13, 2016
The way I go about it is I always use the queue. As I chose and pick songs I keep adding them to the end of the queue. Then I save the queue with something like October2016 and I have a bunch of sonos playlists which are just record of all the songs I had been listening to and that other friends/guests added as well.

Works well for me.

I don't see Sonos having any auto saving of history.


I used to be able to do that with some success (at least enough that over a period of time I could grab what I needed) but since this last update, the queue is always getting wiped out either accidentally or intentionally by someone in my household and listens are nuked before I get the info I need 😕
Chris
ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
October 13, 2016
Yea the new update makes it much more difficult.
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Enthusiast II
October 14, 2016
Can we add the request for alphabetic 'jump bar' when navigating long lists (similar to Apple Music app on iOS) discussed here:

https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/feature-request-alphabetic-jump-bar-long-lists-such-as-artistalbum-6740470/index1.html#post16037155
Lyricist I
October 14, 2016
Dear all,

It is my first comment on this community but I would like to have the option of limited acces for different kind of users.

So I have 2 kids my wife and me and every now and then I have someone clealing the house.

Wo what I would like is this:
I am the admin, so I can do everything.
My wife can also do everything.
My kids can acces the music in their OWN room, not in the one of their brother or sister and not in the room of the parents.
If possible I would also like to add a volume limit to their controller. Because once they are at their sweet 16, I think the volume will go up 🙂.

And if my cleaning lady is in the house, she can have acces to the radio but not to my server. So limited acces to library.

So to summarize:

users profiles
Per user - max volume
per user - set of sonos devices they can use
per user - services they can use.
Enthusiast II
October 19, 2016
Can we add the request for alphabetic 'jump bar' when navigating long lists (similar to Apple Music app on iOS) discussed here:

https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/feature-request-alphabetic-jump-bar-long-lists-such-as-artistalbum-6740470/index1.html#post16037155


By the way, having finally got around to adding my own local music library to Sonos at the weekend, I realized this functionality already exists in the 'Music Library' view. Any ideas why Sonos hasn't carried it forward to other music services, if nothing else for consistency in the user interface?
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Prodigy I
October 19, 2016
When in the main Now Playing screen, I'd like to be able to "slide over" the Sonos Favourites menu rather than having to exit the screen to select Favourites.
Chris
ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
October 19, 2016
When on now playing swipe down - your last music selection screen shows (just like if you hit the down arrow in the top right corner. If you were in Sonos favorites before you will still be there.
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