Senior Virtuoso

Is anyone happy with the new app?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 8, 2024
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I’m seeing lots of posts with concerns about playlists, queues, alarms, sleep timers…

For users doing really simple stuff like selecting stations to stream, room grouping, controlling volume etc, are these things working? I’m just curious - I’m sticking to S2 for now.

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castalla

Local Superstar

Curiosity killed the cat, or in Sonos case it kills your system. Avoid update like the plague. 😝

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TS51

Contributor I

The new App is a buggy mess. I’m going to try and go back to S2. Sonos should have done better beta testing and way better communication with users and subscribers . The new App is not ready for production.

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GuitarSuperstar

Lead Maestro

For simple music streaming and grouping, the new app works. But it isn’t much of an improvement over the old app so you aren’t really missing out on anything. I would stick with the old app until they bring back a lot of the missing features.

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." - Rashi

webmink

Prominent Collaborator I

Most of the “simple stuff” like searching my music library for a track, asking for it to be played next after what’s currently playing or adding it to a playlist for later are broken. More advanced stuff like grouping speakers into zones works well but what is the point if I can’t actually play what I want to listen to? Not everyone streams...

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Ken_Griffiths

Maybe this link will help with what’s going on here. It at least gives some early timelines for some of the missing features mentioned…

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

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Absolute40

Enthusiast II

Maybe this link will help with what’s going on here. It at least gives some early timelines for some of the missing features mentioned…

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

I don’t see any mention of Local Music Library search in the timeline which stretches out to July just to add back features that already existed in the old app!!

Bring back the old Sonos app. It was clunky, but it actually worked!

Bumper

Maybe this link will help with what’s going on here. It at least gives some early timelines

for some of the missing features mentioned…

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

It should be noted that this isn’t an official announcement from Sonos. I know they leak things all the time, so maybe this is accurate but hopefully Sonos will do us the courtesy of actually communicating this to us directly.

Bumper

Maybe this link will help with what’s going on here. It at least gives some early timelines for some of the missing features mentioned…

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/blog/sonos/sonos-new-app-launched

I don’t see any mention of Local Music Library search in the timeline which stretches out to July just to add back features that already existed in the old app!!

This feature is gone, with no indication that it will come back at all. The talking point from reps in the lead up to the app release was to: 1. Use Pex. 2. Use local search in the desktop app until they stop working near the end of the year.

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Vincepitb

Contributor I

I agree the new app is a total mess and should be pulled back until it is complete