New SONOS app: many features no longer available!

I thank you on behalf of Marty 😁

Removal of features that worked and that many in the community enjoyed makes absolutely no sense and only serves to drive customers to alternate products.  Sonos what were you thinking?  I too enjoyed the use of the Sleep timer with music and audio books.  Consider soliciting feedback from the community before doing something like this and bring back the features that were taken from your customers.

Just spent the last half hour trying to find the alarm in the new app. After searching everywhere over and over again I came to the forum to find out where the alarm setting is. 
 

from this thread it appears it’s been removed completely. Why would they remove the ability to add or edit an alarm?  Makes no sense. How am I supposed to change my daughters alarm from 7am to 6am tomorrow when the option has been removed?

Missing features :

• adding things to the current playlist (without removing everything else)
• saving the current playlist as a new or an existing playlist

Harder : changing the sound of only one speaker when in a group

I’m back to the previous version and blocking future updates. Let's hope something will be done fast.

How did you roll back versions?

My android phone is rooted, and I had a backup of app + data.

The app update also changed the data. I first only restored the app, but it was starting like a new install.

On android, you can get the apk of the previous version (16.1) on apkmirror https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/sonos-inc/sonos-for-android/

You can tell the play store not to upgrade this app, but I had previous case where it did update nonetheless.

You will have to reconfigure all your system, because of the update making the data incompatible.

Will take them months to sort this filth out of an app

Please bring back alarm feature !

Unrealistic that I cannot manage anymore this basic feature since the app update...

SONOS, you’ve missed the point.

First you remove the ability to play music from the controlling device, so I built and populated a NAS with several hundred albums.  

Now you remove the Music Library from search results, forcing me to scroll through the library to find the music I want to play.  That simply isn’t tenable.

Apple Music doesn’t have HiDef versions of the much of the music I have on my NAS and the difference in sound quality is obvious.

Then there’s the depreciation of:

1. Alarms
2. Sleep timer
3. Adding a music library
4. Access to EQ from the volume control 
5. Queue editing
6. Playlist editing
7. Music resolution badges
8. What else will I find in the coming days and weeks?

I wouldn’t be surprised to read some or all of these features have a small user base, but it’s likely that user base has championed your products over many years;  I’ve done so for 20 years, resulting in all of my siblings and many of my friends buying and enjoying your products.

Please restore the missing features so that I can continue to champion your products and so that I can continue to enjoy the playback quality your products are capable of.

The new app is complete crap. Full of bugs and missing features. How can they offer such crap to the customers?