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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Daviross

Lyricist I

Sonos, sort this nonsense out.

sleep timer and alarm were fundamental functions

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mtwomey

Contributor I

I can’t even find where to toggle existing alarms, where is that?

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davidcoull

Lyricist II

Android in the UK: Alarms are there, editable in Your System>Manage. Incidentally, an alarm has just come on correctly.

Everything else about the new app is even worse than the old one. Fortunately the Sonos equipment I use most of the time can be downgraded to S1.

Here’s one that probably few people have discovered: add an album with 333 tracks (Massenet songs) from a streaming service - it adds the first 100. After that, you have to add individually to the queue, play it, then add the next, etc, because the Edit and Add to Queue functions have gone.

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mtwomey

Contributor I

Interesting about alarms - they’re there on Android? On IOS they are completely absent.

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HarryBW

Lyricist III

Unacceptable and shocking to release this new app without warning owners! Not to be able to use NAS is just silly and clearly the design team is made up of entitled millennials with no grasp of how the world works. I’ve long wanted to sell my Sonos speakers and today is the day they’re going on eBay. I will post on any forum I can find for prospective buyers to NOT choose Sonos.

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mtwomey

Contributor I

Ok, got out of bed. Went downstairs to the basement. Booted up my computer. Downloaded the Mac version of the Sonos app. Installed it. Created the alarm I needed. Came back upstairs and back to bed. Woke my wife up in the process. Thanks Sonos.

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nynjesq

FYI. I was able to use Alexa as a sleep timer. Can’t believe they would release an app without the basics though.

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Xee

Lyricist II

Disaster. I wish I had read these comments before update. Alarms have completely disappeared from iOS. What are they thinking.

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Cjkoos

Lyricist I

A pathetic and embarrassing effort from a company selling itself as a market leader.

No sleep timer or alarm is amateurish to say the least. Like numerous others I’m totally fed up with this level of so called service. A potential fire sale if my huge system is on the cards.

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Bob 3498

Lyricist II

Do these people actually want to destroy their product and lose business?? Crazy self destruction. No more Sonos for me.

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