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Contributor I
May 7, 2024 3:29 PM UTC

Latest Sonos App - Do not Upgrade

Just upgraded to the latest, new and improved Sonos app on my mobile phone (iPhone) and it has led to my losing my complete music library which is on a NAS.

After some discussions with support, they confirmed that this option is not available - only the commercial streaming services (and it does recognise Plex) are visible and accessible but no proprietary My Music Library.

Allegedly this will be rolled out in a future iteration, but no timeframe provided.

Beware if you are considering upgrading

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Lyricist III
May 10, 2024 11:11 PM UTC

My phone updated automatically, so I set my tablet to not update as I wanted to keep the old app. I just found out that  it has now updated so I've lost all the functions I wanted. Beyond frustrating 

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Lyricist III
May 11, 2024 3:13 AM UTC

I left a " nice " 1 star review on Play store, not too friendly, lol.

Maybe more should do so,  so that they will hire somebody to make a "simple" working app for a system that costs thousands of dollars..

Otherwise I m done with Sonos...there where always some issues ( ....why...???).

But this is it...and knowing them...this will take several months, they dont seem to care....

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Lyricist II
May 11, 2024 3:44 AM UTC

New app is a shocker if you rely on NAS for music.  The removal of search and alphabetical selection make it virtually unusable.  I wasn’t going to upgrade but IPad did it automatically.  SONOS should allow S2 app to be reinstalled until they sort out the new one.  Removal of features in the upgrade is really unfriendly.

 

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Enthusiast II
May 11, 2024 4:48 AM UTC

All sonos victims should contsct their local media outlets with this story. Lets see if we can get these fools stock to crash. 

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Collaborator I
May 11, 2024 9:19 AM UTC

I reinstalled the old S2 Android app from APK Mirror, but it eventually auto-updated to the newest version. I reinstalled the S2 version again and turned off auto-update. Hopefully, that will work so I can keep using version S2. I use a NAS for all my local music, so the new upgrade is a disaster. 

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Flattliner
Enthusiast II
May 11, 2024 11:24 AM UTC

Have tried all the available third party apps for iOS and the clear winner is SonoPhone.

 

Will be using that until Sonos get their act together or I move on to a different system. This update has ruined my whole experience and I am so angry - leaving poor (accurate) reviews wherever I can...

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SONOS: Great hardware, terrible software.
Contributor I
May 11, 2024 1:39 PM UTC

Absolutely, I want to back out of this update, it’s noy

complete.

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Lyricist III
May 11, 2024 2:02 PM UTC

Another issue I've come across is trying to play a radio station from my previous played list. I get random " something went wrong" error message

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Collaborator I
May 12, 2024 2:38 PM UTC

Well, my Android app auto-updated again to version 80. I guess I am stuck using the Windows Desktop Controller when I want to search my NAS. 😡

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Enthusiast II
May 12, 2024 2:43 PM UTC

Well, my Android app auto-updated again to version 80. I guess I am stuck using the Windows Desktop Controller when I want to search my NAS. 😡

Go to play store settings and toggle "don't auto update apps"

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