Contributor I

New SONOS app: many features no longer available!

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 7, 2024
192 replies
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Think twice before you install the new SONOS app as at least the following features are no longer available (temporarily or permanently):

Sleeptimer has disappeared completely. Either you sleep the entire night with music on or you wake up to switch off the music… Quite defeats the purpose.
Alarms: creating and editing an alarm is no longer possible. You can only toggle an existing alarm on and off.
Local music library: make sure you don’t remove it as it is no longer possible to add a local music library stored on a NAS or shared device. Also the search doesn’t work on the local library any longer; it only searches the online music services. Sonos seems to have finally let down its initial user population that made Sonos big before music streaming services existed…

Either this is a deliberate choice by Sonos to reduce the functionality or someone validated a pre-beta release for production to meet some preset deadlines… In any case, don’t upgrade if you need these features.

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Absolute40

Enthusiast II

Looks like I’m going to have to sell all my speakers unless they bring back local music library.
How could they replace the old app and remove these important features!!!

Bring back the old Sonos app. It was clunky, but it actually worked!

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sjw

Local Superstar

In addition, you can't add to the queue or edit the queue or existing Sonos Playlist.

I'd bet there was genuine frustration and anger in the beta community knowing this pile of shit was getting released and nothing was being done about it despite, I'll bet, every single issue being raised here having been raised there.

For complete clarity, no, I was not a part of the beta.

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rwrgeo

Renowned Enthusiast II

Removal of these features is completely unacceptable. It does seem like management of music library and alarms is apparently temporarily with the workaround being to use the desktop app but I’m really concerned if they shipped this in this state that they don’t see it as too much of a priority to fix it.

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Daz_Wright

Contributor I

Unfortunately I didn’t check before updating. Breaking the queue is just lazy. There is no way this is release ready

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alexandervandeputte

Lyricist I

Sonos Beam:

No indication of music playing, nor possibility to control it.

When playing TV content: no indication of sound format anymore

Controls for midnight mode and dialogue boost gone

Also when streaming from NAS: no HD and High Res badges gone?

This new app feels buggy and ill conceived, please re-publish the previous one.

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Absolute40

Enthusiast II

Sonos should have left the S2 app alone and released this MVP app as a new app so customers could keep the old app or try the new one and decide which one is best for them. Forcing a completely new app which removes features is a bad move, especially since we are the people most likely to buy their new products!

Clearly the beta testers for this new app were a narrow selection of the Sonos customer base. Do Sonos not understand how their customers use their devices?!

Bring back the old Sonos app. It was clunky, but it actually worked!