Wishlist for Sonos Controller Improvements

I would very much like to be able to save a song from a Spotify radio to a particular Spotify playlist. Right now I can only save them to "Your Music," requiring that I go to my desktop to organize them into playlists, which I'm not inclined to do because I'm listening to Spotify from SONOS.

For those wanting better Spotify integration - release today added Album folder view back to the new Spotify Sonos App.

A kids mode please, so I can give it to my toddler lock it, and he can choose his own music from a preset list usign a very simple UI.

Yes. Ability to lock down controller very much needed.

I think the universal search needs to be improved: for example, when I search by artist, I'd like to refine my search by album or track; currently I can only search by artist or track or album.
I don't need a complex syntax, but the ability to keep my criteria when I swith from a category to another in the search window, with eventually a visual artifact that tells me that I have a filter criteria active on a search categor (that I can clear if i wish).

Couple of things I'd like to see in the controller (that I dont think were mentioned):

1. Ability to see artist art (for local artist) when browsing via Artists. There is already a default box icon for this so its strange that there isnt an ability to change it. This could be pulled from the internet or provided locally via a "folder.jpg" style file.

2. Ability to tell the Sonos system not to remove "The" prefixes from artist names.

Cheers.

I feel the GUI is out of date, requiring more steps to reach a function than necessary.

How about utilizing drag and drop a little more?

For instance if I want to group two speakers together, I feel it would be more intuitive to drag one speaker/room on top of another speaker or group to add that one to the group. Now I have to click the "Group" button and then click in the box to add it" and then hit done. Two steps more.

Same thing if I want to remove a speaker from a group, why not make it possible to drag it out of the group? Or simply have a "remove" button or something right there on the group? Now you have to go into group, exclude it and click on done. Two more unnecessary steps.

Of course the old way of doing it could be left intact but just make it faster and simple to perform group/ungroup. It feels a bit out of date and tedious to have to go into a new window to perform these tasks.

Same thing with "eq" and "settings". Why not have symbols on the groups that you can click for direct access? Now the fastest way is to right-click and then choose from a menu. Or you can click on the eq-symbol under the transport but then you have to choose the group first. One step extra.

Just my 2 cents.

I like the ability to make up of customise room grouping but also leave the single room speaker configuration alone, say I got 5 speakers in 5 rooms, I want to be able to create various combination for customs group like

Group 1: room 2 and 3
Group 2: room 2, 4, 5
Group 3: room 1, 2, 4
Group 4: room 1,3,4,5
etc..etc...

But I also like to be able to send sound to individual room and still have the grouping around

i would like to request a granular volume control especially in the lower area. using windows and android the volume control is something like from 0 to 10 instead of 5 - please improve that.

thanks stefffen

My suggestions for improving the Windows controller:

Make it easier to build playlists - currently I have to click on each track and then select add to playlist and then the playlist which is very painful and time consuming. It would be much better to select multiple tracks and then add to a playlist. Or have multiple panes and be able to drag and drop tracks to an already open playlist.

Also I have different categories of tracks: music, language and spoken word. When adding folders from my NAS it would be good to be able to classify the folder and then have this available as a filter for browsing music etc (e.g. I don't want to see the millions of language tracks when searching for music to make a party playlist)

I'd love to see the ability to set up Groups from an alarm. When I get up in the morning, the bedroom is playing music; then I go in the kitchen, which is playing the same music (thanks to the alarm), but slightly out of sync. I can make sure, the night before, to set up a group to wake up to, but it's a pain in the ass and someone getting a late-night snack can easily screw it up.