Contributor II

For those of you who hate having to use the sonos app, here's a useful alternative

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 10, 2024
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Of you're like me and despise the Sonos app and the inability to use apps like you tube (well technically any app since the Sonos app only works 1 out 20 times). I've found this app called Air Music, that allows you to cast audio to your Sonos speakers using any music service or app/player/webpage that produces audio for Android, it's basically the closest thing to Apple Airplay that if found. I can just launch you tube or spotify or my local file player and cast the audio without having the headaches of being forced to you use Sonos beyond terrible interface, highly recommend it, it's been total ges changer for me and actually makes Sonos products useable.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.airmusic.trial

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Essex Girl

Lyricist III

Well, you are a star! And here's a thing, I've just had a long online chat with customer support, tried a few things on Android, bits of Amazon work, bits don't, then lightbulb moment, pretty much all my favourite stations are myTuner so asked if that could be it. Turns out it could and technicians are working on it, but no ETA!

So, I've suggested they might like to put something prominently on their website and message people so we stop wasting our time trying to resolve things that are beyond our control. Doesn't explain why there are alarms on laptop but not android.

I shall try the link for the laptop, but maybe not tonight, and not tomorrow, Pilates and a D-Day dinner to go to. But thank you, and customer services have said they'll keep the ticket open for a remote access to the computer, though that won't fix the myTuner issue.

Onward and upward!

Essex Girl

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Kamillalala

Contributor I

Simply just garbage since update came out and made the whole Sonos app unusable !!!!

G0atHax0r

Enthusiast II

It actually works!

A bit scary though, as it has to have full access, and warns that the app can see everything (including passwords)…. Does that not concern you?

It just needs Microphone and notifications (on a non-root phone). It doesn't have access to passwords.

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Essex Girl

Lyricist III

In short press250 where do I find the “Windows desktop client…. on the ‘old’ codebase”? Uninstalling the app on Windows and reinstalling did B all! but I’d be glad of clarification if you’d be so kind.

Happy to help! Download the Windows desktop client here …

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/downloads

While the above app has been updated quite recently, it is still on the old codebase and is quite a bit more stable (and functional) than the new mobile apps.

Well, I tried it - sad to say, it didn’t work - trying a MyTuner station still shows ‘playing’ but it’s not. Thanks for trying. The update shows it’s from April so not the May one but no difference at all.

I give up.

Essex Girl

G0atHax0r

Enthusiast II

In short press250 where do I find the “Windows desktop client…. on the ‘old’ codebase”? Uninstalling the app on Windows and reinstalling did B all! but I’d be glad of clarification if you’d be so kind.

Happy to help! Download the Windows desktop client here …

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/downloads

While the above app has been updated quite recently, it is still on the old codebase and is quite a bit more stable (and functional) than the new mobile apps.

Well, I tried it - sad to say, it didn’t work - trying a MyTuner station still shows ‘playing’ but it’s not. Thanks for trying. The update shows it’s from April so not the May one but no difference at all.

I give up.

Essex Girl

Give “Roon” a whirl. It's pretty good and plays over your Sonos equipment

I just got some “WiiM” equipment in. It's also really good, but it would replace Sonos. I'm heading down this path I'm thinking.

Both actually have functional local library options.

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Mike the Moomin

Lyricist II

Having laboured to put all my music on my NAS (LaCie Cloudbox EK) the updated Sonos app will no longer access it. Apparently this is due to the LaCie Drive using the SMBV1 file transfer protocol whereas the App uses V2 or 3. This was done, according to Sonos, to keep my data safe!

Will the AirMusic app on an iPhone 11 be able to access my LaCie drive and send it to play thru my Sonos speakers (Play 3 & Play 5)?

I’d be very grateful for advice as Sonos have effectively said “hard luck”

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DerkWehler

Lyricist III

Having laboured to put all my music on my NAS (LaCie Cloudbox EK) the updated Sonos app will no longer access it. Apparently this is due to the LaCie Drive using the SMBV1 file transfer protocol whereas the App uses V2 or 3. This was done, according to Sonos, to keep my data safe!

Will the AirMusic app on an iPhone 11 be able to access my LaCie drive and send it to play thru my Sonos speakers (Play 3 & Play 5)?

I’d be very grateful for advice as Sonos have effectively said “hard luck”

I agree with your sentiment. But I changed my NAS to SMBV2 and got it working again. I don’t recall exactly how, but you can search on the web how to do it. I don’t know what a LaCie is though...

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Mike the Moomin

Lyricist II

I’ve tried to update the LaCie drive to SMBV2 for ages without success. It was a French company taken over by Seagate and there is no support for the drive.

Do l does anyone know the answer to the first part of my problem: will AirMusic access an NAS and send it to my Sonos speakers?

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DerkWehler

Lyricist III

I’ve tried to update the LaCie drive to SMBV2 for ages without success. It was a French company taken over by Seagate and there is no support for the drive.

Do l does anyone know the answer to the first part of my problem: will AirMusic access an NAS and send it to my Sonos speakers?

AFAIK, AirMusic will play to your sonos whatever you can play (on virtually any app) on your phone.

PS: When I enabled SMBv2, it was purely a windows challenge, not specific to drive hardware.

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Moke72

Contributor I

You can reinstall the previous Android app, the one that allows playlist editing, shows every song in your playlist without cutting it off partway along, has convenient navigation buttons at the bottom to navigate around, all the stuff that they didn’t put into their newest pile of crap app. Here’s a repost of the link to the old install hosted on an archive site: <https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/sonos-inc/sonos-for-android/sonos-for-android-16-1-release/>

You must uninstall the new, next to useless app that they just updated to, install the one from the archive site, then change your Sonos system settings to never update automatically. This will buy you some time to find a way to move playlists over to a service that will support your playlists, you know, not Sonos.

Absolutely top man! Thank you SO much, I have my system back!

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