Music Library Alphabet Side Scrolling

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September 1, 2024
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I use my Sonos speakers 100% for listening to music, primarily through my music library on a stored NAS. My experience has more or less come back to baseline from the new app rollout. One thing that’s still missing that I found to be quite a helpful feature was the vertical side alphabet of the music library so I could quickly tap on a letter and immediately jump to that part of my library. I know you can search specifically within the music library now but am still longing for the side scroll. Any idea when (or if) that might be coming back?

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Best answer by rosswells127

I’d love to know if alphabetic scrolling is on the list of fixes to this awful upgrade. Like others with extensive music libraries, trying to scroll down the alphabet is tedious, slow, and just plain stupid. It seems that the Sonos developers have no first-hand experience actually listening to their own music libraries. If one’s listening habits doesn’t conform to the only choice Sonos seems to prioritize - streaming via Spotify or the other subscription services - you’re just shit out of luck.

@marcabrown58
I totally agree with your comments. I have seen a comment from @Corry P elsewhere that Sonos is well aware of this issue due to the # of comments from users about it.
I suspect that this is still well down their priority list, but such functionality will no doubt be added back at some stage.
FYI: If you are on IOS, SonosPhone works well for local music library and has alphabetic positioning!
Ross.

rosswells127

Prodigy I

@svah I totally agree.

This was a feature of the old Sonos app and 3rd party apps such as SonoPhone still have that feature and it works fine with the latest Sonos firmware on the speakers, so I am not sure why Sonos removed it from the new app.

@Corry P is this something Sonos are aware of and looking to add back? Manually scrolling thru to get to Albums that start with a “Z” for example is tedious to say the least especially when you have a large music library.

Ross.

M

marcabrown58

Lyricist III

I’d love to know if alphabetic scrolling is on the list of fixes to this awful upgrade. Like others with extensive music libraries, trying to scroll down the alphabet is tedious, slow, and just plain stupid. It seems that the Sonos developers have no first-hand experience actually listening to their own music libraries. If one’s listening habits doesn’t conform to the only choice Sonos seems to prioritize - streaming via Spotify or the other subscription services - you’re just shit out of luck.

rosswells127Answer

Prodigy I

I’d love to know if alphabetic scrolling is on the list of fixes to this awful upgrade. Like others with extensive music libraries, trying to scroll down the alphabet is tedious, slow, and just plain stupid. It seems that the Sonos developers have no first-hand experience actually listening to their own music libraries. If one’s listening habits doesn’t conform to the only choice Sonos seems to prioritize - streaming via Spotify or the other subscription services - you’re just shit out of luck.

@marcabrown58
I totally agree with your comments. I have seen a comment from @Corry P elsewhere that Sonos is well aware of this issue due to the # of comments from users about it.
I suspect that this is still well down their priority list, but such functionality will no doubt be added back at some stage.
FYI: If you are on IOS, SonosPhone works well for local music library and has alphabetic positioning!
Ross.

MoPac

Headliner III

On the same subject of moving through a long list it would be nice to at least have a scroll bar show that you can grab and pull up or down the queue. I figured when the queue editing is returned that scrolling would also be part of that fix. Not so sure now after one of the updates only added Clear Queue. Queue also needs to follow the music progress.