New Sonos app removes key features - beware!

What a terrible upgrade. I have never seen anything this bad.

What I miss myself is all what the others wrote, plus one I didn’t see mention yet: you can no longer quickly mute a speaker inside a group. You can only slide to zero, and once the volume of the others goes up that speaker also starts playing again.

This is all…

I am at a los for words.

Whose idea was this? Someone though this was a good idea? Removing crucial functionality that people actually NEED to make the app useful? An app that has already suffered from ‘updates’ that removed functionality in the past? An app that doesn’t pick up my speakers quickly since early this year, while Spotify for instance finds it without a problem, while Sonos simply ‘cannot find the system’?

What the heck is going on?
No more alarms, volume sliders with numbers, quickly muting, not having to click click click to get somewhere, my gosh this is all so bad.

Idk if someone already reported this, but all "collections" and artist radios (from Tidal, my preferred music service) are impossible to play, as the "play" button just isn't there anymore. I can see a list of songs, but can't play it.

The PLAY button!! Who can design a music app and remove the play button! Please Sonos, fire (or transfer to a basement, where they should spend the first weeks reading all this thread and be ashamed of themselves) whoever made this decision. They should never be in charge of this task again. You can do any mistake but not remove the play controls from a music app. It's like taking away the time from a clock app. Genius! I can see why they think it too "courage" to design this disaster of an app. They need courage to face this sh*storm now.

Artist radio was my daily routine, my favourite feature and now I can't play them anymore. Basically, the system is useless for me because that's what I like to listen to (not albums or single songs) and now I can't. My workaround is to use the speaker in Bluetooth mode, stream music directly from Tidal, which is incredibly annoying because it drains the battery of the device I'm streaming from, plus if I switch to another app, that will stop the music as the other app will take over the audio channel.

Congratulations Sonos! What a joke.

Why would they change all these functions, that’s what made Sonos better than getting a regular speaker

bring it back

Where's the AMA?

AMA - 

New release is not showing album covers from my MP3s.  WTF?  Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite running Android 14.

I’ve had the feeling for some time that Sonos is gradually deprecating their support for a local music library. The thin edge of the wedge was when they introduced Alexa support and the Alexa skill was lacking the ability to choose tracks from the user’s library. I thought (hoped) that the skill’s repertoire would be expanded eventually to include that. Years later, that hasn’t happened. Then my hope flickered again with the introduction of Sonos’ own voice control system. Nope. And this new app does nothing to dispel the feeling. I’d be willing to bet that by directing/forcing their users to adopt streaming services Sonos gets a cut of the action. It’s all about the money. Very disappointing.

I share everyone’s frustration with the way this transition to the new app has been ‘managed’- and that is being generous - but I have in addition to the functional deterioration an immediate problem in playlists where the tune being played no longer syncs to the playlist title. It is now typically two or three tunes ahead of the related title. My desktop app has not been updated ie still gold S2- where the playlists remain  correctly aligned to the music being played. Has anyone else discovered how to resolve this anomaly?

Our Sonos experience this morning takes the cake. We were simply attempting to play music from Spotify in 2 rooms. It took a few minutes to play music in one room, which was a continuation of what we were listening to previously, not what was selecte. Upon trying again, the new music started to play at the same time as the previous music out of the one speaker. I don't even know how that's possible. The prior music stopped after a while so we could enjoy the new selection, but only in one room. 3-5 minutes later, the other room joined the party.

Am at a point now where I don't even care about the multitude of features that are missing or broken - I just want the basic ability play the music I select to a single speaker within say 60 seconds. Talk about lowering expectations. I think I'll just get a CD player.

Why would Sonos do this, can’t even set up a playlist - seriously!!!!