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Chris
Lead Maestro
Aug 13, 2015 6:25 PM UTC

Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

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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Lyricist I
Oct 29, 2016 8:55 PM UTC
Being able to save the playlist I create on the device (mobile) my music is stored on.

Having one touch play optional.
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Lyricist I
Nov 2, 2016 11:41 AM UTC
•••PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME ORGANISE THE QUEUE!!•••

Why isn't there a way to organise the queue by Artist, Album, Song etc.?

I love Sonos, but I want to be able to dump my entire music library in the queue and listen to it just like I used to on iTunes - by picking an artist or a genre, or by shuffling and re-discovering an old gem - I can't do that anymore. Instead, everything is in different places and I need to click about 10 things to find anything.

Admittedly, you'd need more space dedicated to the queue to accommodate that, but personally i'm fine with losing the space elsewhere, most of which isn't doing much anyway.

Am I being naive? Is there a reason this can't be done?
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ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
Nov 2, 2016 11:45 AM UTC
You seem the type that would like the new click on song play from here method notnusing queue at all.
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Lyricist I
Nov 2, 2016 11:52 AM UTC
You seem the type that would like the new click on song play from here method notnusing queue at all.

Is that an actual thing? I'd have thought the queue is pretty fundamental to how sonos works?
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ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
Nov 2, 2016 11:58 AM UTC
Not really with the new version of the controller. You will see you can click on a song and it will add that song and all to follow. You will also see within the music selection screen the song playing. It is very similar to what you see with most apps.

I personally don't like it as I like utilizing the queue. But you seem to be one that would like the new method. Try it out ignoring the queue screen and you will see what I mean.

Also - if Spotify user they just went to public beta with method to control sonos directly from the Spotify app.
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Enthusiast I
Nov 3, 2016 11:26 AM UTC
I would like a 'jukebox' mode for the controller app - so that the default action on pressing a song is to add it to the end of current play queue, rather than obliterate the current play queue. This is how the app used to work ,and it was great. In fact, it was one of the little details that made Sonos a nice system to use. I've always hated how other apps like Spotify worked in this regard.
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Contributor I
Nov 13, 2016 10:16 PM UTC
The first thing is to REMOVE the Tap to Play feature they just added, people keep starting a new song in the middle of one that is playing and it is annoying, really annoying.
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ChrisAuthor
Lead Maestro
Nov 14, 2016 1:18 AM UTC
Yep for sure
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Contributor I
Nov 17, 2016 6:12 AM UTC
Adding my wish here that the Android controller would have an option to display the screen for a few seconds at the start of every song. Right now I can only see what is starting to play if I manually wake the screen or leave the screen on full time. The few other controllers I have used, for example on my Denon A/V receiver, do this.
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Lyricist I
Dec 5, 2016 11:38 PM UTC
How about adding the ability to like or dislike music from Apple Music ... basic functionality I would think.

Greg
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