Is Sonos killing local libraries with these new software updates?

There’s no local search on the iOS app either. Also no way of getting to artists quickly other than page scrolling. So if you have a big library you may not be listening to zz much. 
 

Sonos playlists have also gone😳

Why make things worse and reduce functionality. Clearly the customers no longer matters, it’s all about streaming and subscription services. Sad

Sonos playlists are still there .. they’re embedded in the section called “Sonos Favorites”, which probably should be titled “Sonos Favourites” for the UK market, but not worth ‘splitting hairs’ over such a minor spelling issue.

Thanks, but can’t see a way of adding any songs to playlists. 

I don’t mind the look and feel but iit feels very Beta. 

Yeah, just noticed the Music Library row under Sources. 
 

But like you said, the only way to navigate it is to scroll forever, wait for it to load, scroll more, wait, repeat until you make it to Van Halen. No one is going to do that. 

Sonos, this is a laughably poor implementation for Music Library users. Not being able to search your Music Library makes this feature completely unusable. 

No I don’t see that option either, but I would think there are some features still to be implemented and the App just perhaps has core functionality at the moment, maybe Sonos are keeping things simple just to get it initially rolled out ‘worldwide’.

I think (er…hope) more features will appear later, as presumably a fair bit of the functionality is now server-side, rather than perhaps running on the client device.

all my playlists are gone and I’m unable to create new ones. Shocking update.

@HarryBW Luckily I have an iPad that I haven’t updated from the last version. The Sonos Playlists are still there, you just can’t access them from the abortion that is the new app.

wayneo123 I still have the old app on iMac but even there playlists are no longer to be found.

That’s weird, I can see them in the old app and play them to. I can also access them via an app I have built ie:

I will be using this going forward rather that the appalling sonos app.

I have my library on a NAS and have installed Plex along side. It is able to catalogue the same files in situ. Two big benefits:

• Sonos has a Plex plug-in so I can now play my local music as well as have it included in searches
• The Plex app works just fine playing to Sonos (if you have a Plex Pass) and has all the features that are currently missing from the Sonos app.

Worth trying as we have no idea how long it will take Sonos to get basic capabilities like library search and play-next working again.