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List of features that still need to be fixed (Android) Update

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December 13, 2024
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My original post was locked so starting new one. Posted this 3 months ago, 3 months after the ‘upgrade’:

Hi Folks,

3+ months into the updated Sonos app debacle, here is a list of features that worked great on version 16 of the app but still do not work on version 80 of the app. I hope we can get fixes for these and check them off in less than 3 months:

    1) Add/Edit tracks to a Sonos playlist.
        I use playlists heavily from music in my local Library. Some of these playlists have thousands to tracks. Since the upgrade, I cannot edit them at all.
    2) Album art.
        Album art no longer displays for tracks from my local Library.
    3) When viewing the queue, the app should zoom to the currently playing or last played track.
        When a playlist has more than dozen or so tracks I shouldn’t have to scroll to find the current track.
    4) Touching the volume bar should allow me to adjust the volume for any of the devices currently being used.
        Now I have to click the speaker list at the bottom. I suppose this is mainly personal preference.

I will try to post here as each of these get fixed (hopefully!).

As of today, #2 (album art) and #4 (volume control) are working normally. I just noticed album art working today: 6 months after the disaster.

Still waiting for #1 and #3. The playlist is very important to me. Playlists do not show up at all. Luckily I listen to 1 frequently so it's on the ‘Recently Played’ list. But all of the others I had created are no longer accessible.

Okay Sonos, it’s been 6 months. Was it worth it? The stock price pretty much tanked after the release and while it’s come back a bit, it’s not at the 52 week high. Next time consider your existing customers.

Thanks!

MikeS

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mfs2112Author

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As we enter the 8th month since the ‘upgrade’ I will update my list of things that still need to be fixed:

1) Add/Edit tracks to a Sonos playlist.
I use playlists heavily from music in my local Library. Some of these playlists have thousands to tracks. Since the upgrade, I cannot edit them at all.

I am switching to m3u playlists since those work and I am create/edit them outside of the Sonos interface. It’s unfortunate that I have essentially lost my Sonos direct playlists. :(

2) When viewing the queue, the app should zoom to the currently playing or last played track.
When a playlist has more than dozen or so tracks I shouldn’t have to scroll to find the current track.

Still not working. As I mentioned before I like having huge playlists and then hitting ‘shuffle’. When I check the queue it should automatically zoom to the currently playing track.

3 New one: When a .m3u playlist loaded and I hit shuffle, it re-loads the playlist 40 times. For example, I have playlist with 1620 tracks. Looking at the queue it shows 64800 tracks (68400/1620 = 40). This causes tracks to appear > once which is annoying. I assume this causes memory issues too. See screenshot below.

4 The app is slow and seems to lose its brain sometimes. I start it up and it takes up to a minute to refresh. Sometime a speaker is missing and few minutes later it’s back. Could it be my wifi? Sure, but it’s the same wifi setup I had pre upgrade and was fine then.

Then when Ioading some larger playlists it just loses its brain for a while. It’s a large playlist so I expect it some degree but again, the prior version did not behave this way.

Still waiting to the app to work as well as the previous version. Maybe by the 1 year anniversary? Oh and by the way Sonos, I have not spent a single dollar on a Sonos product since the upgrade and I do not plan on spending any until the app is at least as good as the prior one.

Thanks,

MikeS

mfs2112Author

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Found this in another post from 1 month ago:

We are aware of an issue when selecting a larger playlist (100+ items), that multiple copies of it will be added to the queue. This affects multiple services and Music Library. We are investigating, but have no estimate for when a fix might be put in place,

I will update this thread when I hear of a resolution.

Sigh.

mfs2112Author

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So now I find that the app will consistently be unable to load playlists that are > 1000 tracks. I know there has been a lot of talk over the years on that topic, but it was working find a week or so ago. So I wrote a script to break up my playlist into 1000 track files. Sigh.

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