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

I’ve tried to read through most of the replies but I don’t think this was mentioned.

with this update I lost all of my custom url streaming links via tunein. The new tunein integration does not seem to allow me to add them back in. And Sonos has not updated their how to guide on what to do in this situation.

Along with all the other complaints this one needs to be added to their fix this soon bucket list or I’ll reconsider any further purchases. I wanted to get invested into this ecosystem but after this update I can’t get behind that.

I'm not sure how effective it will be but I posted my feedback through the app's Help and Feedback.

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AplusA

Lyricist I

To anyone at the decision-making level at Sonos:

Bring back sleep timer
bring back ability to create and edit alarms

Please!!

Don't forget the local library functionality.....

BennyB0Y

Enthusiast I

To anyone at the decision-making level at Sonos:

Bring back sleep timer
bring back ability to create and edit alarms

Please!!

Don't forget the local library functionality.....

Yes. I mentioned that in my feedback too.

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TTStock

Lyricist I

… I’ll write something positive about the new app. I think it’s fabulous, I finally have a stress free life! Music doesn’t suddenly disappear and reappear when streaming Sonos. Listening to the television is finally a relaxing moment. For the last three years it has done nothing but falter, sound disappears, delays in adjusting volume of up to 12 seconds… I think during the last two years I have endured indescribable suffering. I never knew what the cause was… I even changed internet provider once. Or was it the television, it was after all old. But no! It was the old SONOS app. I really don’t mind waiting for the updates. I am now just enjoying listening to music on my system without stress. 😁

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calliopejane

Enthusiast I

… I’ll write something positive about the new app. I think it’s fabulous, I finally have a stress free life! Music doesn’t suddenly disappear and reappear when streaming Sonos. Listening to the television is finally a relaxing moment. For the last three years it has done nothing but falter, sound disappears, delays in adjusting volume of up to 12 seconds… I think during the last two years I have endured indescribable suffering. I never knew what the cause was… I even changed internet provider once. Or was it the television, it was after all old. But no! It was the old SONOS app. I really don’t mind waiting for the updates. I am now just enjoying listening to music on my system without stress. 😁

Sounds like your speakers and equipment finally got updated along with this, good -- but a crap mobile-device controller app is not necessary for that and shouldn't be tolerated for mere minimum functionality of your speakers.

Dphilips63

Lyricist III

New app is slow, instable, misses features and absolutely not intuitive.

I moved away from Sonos years ago because of Sonos constantly removing features or not supporting legacy hardware (controllers and speakers) anymore. Go to BluOs, better quality, stability and UI.

My old dad is still using Sonos but is completely lost after the new update, music was his life ..

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Ks0001

Lyricist I

Like buying a car and suddenly the company update the software and disable 2 doors and call it a bold update…..

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chrisred

Lyricist III

Uninstall/remove/throw away the 'new’ Sonos app

And after that download the 16-1 apk and install
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/sonos-inc/sonos-for-android/sonos-for-android-16-1-release/
And you'll be able to use your phone or tablet like you used to 4 days ago
Enjoy!

Thank you for saving me finding this myself. Enshittification at it’s finest. I would laugh had I not spend a significant amount of money on hardware. Honestly thought Sonos could be trusted.

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Elliwed

Contributor I

I can't even login to see my system. Absolute dog doodle.

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Mike65555

Trending Lyricist I

Can’t turn truplay on and off anymore

can’t turn auto update on and off which was a handy feature I always kept mine off so when Sonos released a update I always done research first to make sure it’s good to go

no percentage on volume

the list goes on and on

Sonos why did you release this update with so many features missing you have so many loyal unhappy customers

please fix this soon

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