Contributor I

New SONOS app: many features no longer available!

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 7, 2024
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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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BennyB0Y

Enthusiast I

No alarms on Android for me, had to downgrade the app from apkmirror.

Thankfully reconnecting the system was easy.

I think I know what caused this mess: "Agile development".

A scheme for management to do even less and make devs into assembly line workers.

Release a minimum viable product (bare minimum in this case), then improve on it in 1-4 week sprints.

Google did the same with YTM, but they shut down old Play Music completely, hope the old Sonos app stays functional for a while.

Could also be that all the original developers who knew the code well have left Sonos Dev, (for a reason maybe) if such a department exists.

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Codefish

Lyricist III

With such basic functionality like Alarms and playing from local storage missing, I'm wondering what the point of the app is.

Not having alarms defeats the point of having speakers in the bedroom for me, so I guess I'll just slowly start replacing those with other brands with the basic functionality.

I can stream to the speakers direct from the Spotify app for example

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IngeH

Lyricist I

Totally agree with someone writing we should rate the app - just gave 1 star in App Store. Cannot recommend Sonos to anyone after this. Money talks - creating bad reputation like Sonos has sparked with this crazy release will hopefully lead to someone in charge being fired.

Yep! Have given it 1 star. Would give it ZERO if it were possible. (Conspiracy thought..... It's like SONOS did this on purpose to get publicity of a sort???)

Conspiracy thought#2: Perhaps a competitor infiltrated Sonos mgmt😬

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busywait

Enthusiast I

I think I know what caused this mess: "Agile development".

I don’t think that the choices to completely replace and retire the working app, and do it come-hell-or-high-water with no roll-back option on May 7 are because of working in a way that seeks frequent feedback and adapting plans according to what they learn - it almost seems like they haven’t been very agile :D

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12-String

Lyricist I

IF YOU USE ALARMS, DO NOT INSTALL THIS! ON ANY OF YOUR DEVICES. THIS IS NOT AN UPGRADE, BUT RATHER, A DOWNGRADE. ANY FEATURES GAINED ARE OFFSET BY FEATURES YOU LOSE.

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Moniker

Lyricist III

Man, I desperately need midnight mode and dialogue boost as for playing PS5 without shakes the room!

anyone?

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Florian3393

Lyricist I

New app is not finding a update for my System (Arc, 2 Era300 and Sub Mini). Someone else having this issue? On release notes it says that all products run version 80.0 now.

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Louismar8

Enthusiast I

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.

A quick message for the users who rely on the Sonos alarm on the mobile app - a fix for now...

Download the app onto your pc or mac (I am a mac user - never done this - and have always relied on the mobile app).
Connect to your existing system wifi.
In the main window bottom right corner - select the alarm function button
If you cannot see your favourite radio station - I use to wake up to - play it through the main browser window
Go back to the alarm you created and ‘edit’ it
Set the music to - radio - recently listened to, It should be there.

At least I don’t have to wake up to the siren tomorrow - phew!

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Pops271

Lyricist I

Agree with most comments. It’s New Coke syndrome- release a totally inferior product and alienate your customer base. Pease give us the ability to return to the previous generation.

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Moniker

Lyricist III

New app only allowing me to add voice assistant to Sonos roam. I have 8 other speakers. 😭

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