New SONOS App - Adding to queue

Just piling on the dissatisfaction train.  I do no streaming at all and I use Sonos exclusively to listen to thousands of CDs ripped to my NAS.  Loss of the queue functionality is catastrophic.  The main page interface is too busy and not intuitive.  When searching for a specific artist, there are no longer search letter tabs to jump to artists by alphabetical name.  If I want to listen to Yes, I have to scroll through hundreds of artists to get there.  This is a devastating update.

Many are calling to give users access to the previous version.  That would certainly be nice, but I’ve never seen any company do this ever.  Maybe this time will be different.

The letter shortcuts are one of the many missing and deleted features from this app I’m afraid they will never bring back to the app. Literally dozens and dozens of issues. We are all basically non consenting beta testers and this sucks. 

@Jamie A  Thank you for gathering this user feedback and taking it seriously. We own multiple Sonos devices and the new mobile app has made basic playback and usability insufferably complicated. The most important and basic features like “Play next” and “Add to queue” are gone. The inability to reorder/edit cue while playing is also a huge miss. Finally, search is NOT more intuitive in this new version and “results” view seems more complicated. I really hope you all will go back to the simplicity and intuitive usability of the last interface, or at the minimum prioritize PLAYBACK functionality and controls over services and search.

So the crossfade is actually there but you gotta look a little hard to find it.

The Play Next has been replaced by this thread where instead of Queueing songs you add to the Queue of complaints about the new app...

I ONLY use it for streaming, and it simply doesn't work at all. The best I can do is play ONE TRACK AT A TIME!

The new app is totally useless to me as I can’t play entire folders from my music library. So that’s over $800 of speakers rendered useless. And the rest of the app is just a bunch of error messages not giving me a clue what could be the problem. Is there any way to use Sonos speakers just as speakers (e.g. through Alexa or other products)?

When is the sleep timer getting reintroduced to the app? And the ability to add songs to the queue? Oh and the search facility isn’t what it used to be either. C’mon Sonos up the game please.

I primarily listen to my own library of FLAC file souced from a local librairy stored on a NAS, connected via ethernet to my router and and then to a Sonos Port. After the new update(May 2024) my local library would not show up on the android app. However, a Sonos playlist that sources from the NAS would play the songs from the NAS. The PC app worked as it always has. I deleted the data and cache from the app and hard stopped it. Now it will show my local library but I cannot go to my library and add to the queue. It will only let me replace the queue, not add to or edit! How could you screw up such a great app as you have now?  So much of the mobile functionality is GONE. Please give us access to the previous version until you get this abomination  straigtened out.  Also, almost everytime I open the app it tells me that it cannot find my system, this is ridiculous. I tap on a set-uo a new system and it opens my existing systems. 

Please fix the queue management option!  Ridiculous that was removed. Everyone uses that feature. Also, add back automatic play from a line input on a Sonos port. 
 
Pretty serious misses on this “New” “improved” app!

Not sure how queue management wasn't checked before release, but count me in as someone who does change his queue frequently.