Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

The Sonos Controller, especially for Mac, is a huge mess. It looks worse than WinAmp back 2007 and Sonos should be ashamed of what horribly outdated software they deliver with their premium products.
What bugs me the most is the search. Why is the search split up in Artist, Album, Song etc. When I type in the artist plus the song name or album title it won't show up. With Sonos in general it's just an unnecessary struggle to get to listen to the music you want to listen to. I hope Sonos will open up their system so it can be directly controlled through iTunes / Apple Music otherwise I might just have to say goodbye to the Sonos system. Which would be a shame as I love my Sonos boxes and the wonderful sound. But in 2017 thats just not enough anymore.

Not that your post contains any useful information or even suggestions as to how to improve the Mac controller.
But for what it's worth I think the Mac controller is perfectly fine. Maybe the search could be improved but for one thing if the search returned results from all possible sources it would often be difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. But I rarely have trouble finding what I want to listen to primarily because I in advance what I want and I know how to spell it.
Furthermore, I do not like iTunes and only suffer it because having an iPad and iPhone it's necessary. But it is not used for music cataloging or listening.

Not that your post contains any useful information or even suggestions as to how to improve the Mac controller.
Just for you I will summarize my post: make it less ugly with an updated, more intuitive design. The search-bar is unnecessarily complicated, make it more useful.

But I rarely have trouble finding what I want to listen to primarily because I in advance what I want

So you know exactly that you want to listen to Ed Sheeran - Shape of you. You find it easier and more useful that you can only search for Ed Sheeran as an artist or for every song thats called shape of you. If you search for songs outside of the mainstream music it probably won't show up on top of that search list. Same with artists. You first have to pick the artist, chose the right album and then get to the song. However, it will not find the song if you simply type in Ed Sheeran shape of you. So that's how you sort the wheat from the chaff? By being less specific?

I know how to spell it.

Good for you Stuart, good for you 😉

Furthermore, I do not like iTunes and only suffer it because having an iPad and iPhone it's necessary. But it is not used for music cataloging or listening.

That's okay. I don't want to force you to use iTunes. But a lot of people use Apple Music and therefore also iTunes on the Mac. Wouldn't hurt you if other people could control their Sonos Boxes directly. The more options the better. And as this is a wishlist - these are my two wishes.

I use my Sonos controller from an iPad that sits on a powered desk cradle. I would love for Sonos to have a persistent mode (i.e. always visible, preventing the iPad from going into lock screen) while connected to a power source. The new Pandora iPad app does this already.

I use different streaming services and it would be convenient to always see what content is playing by just glancing over at the iPad, especially when its connected to a power source.

make the volume less notchy, so one can have more gradations when needing to play it quietly. It goes from barely canhear it to loud enough to wake someone in the next room in one notch...

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.

Does it really matter? I'm *usually* asleep by the time my timer finishes...

My first wish would be that Sonos make a real satisfaction survey about what most customer like and dislike
Dropping such irrelevant pre-defined wish list where only one choice is allowed perfectly reflect how Sonos is considering customer experience and Empathy
Do you consider we are good ?
Yes : perfect Thank you
No : Yo should have missed something, please try again ...

I use Folder View a lot and would love to have the Alphabet Quick Find down the right hand side, the same is the Artists section, please...

Item that never made original list and has been requested many times - When stop song fade out a few seconds vs. abrupt stop. Same goes if change song make it a crossfade then.

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.

Does it really matter? I'm *usually* asleep by the time my timer finishes...

Yes you are lucky

from Stuart_17

"I've been using Sonos for a few years now and in double figures for the devices I have. I am not sure how to 'feature request' on here but I for one would really like better playlist management in the controller software. Search for duplicates or be warned of them, Order alpabetically by artist or song or date added. "