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Enthusiast II
May 7, 2024

New Sonos app removes key features - beware!

  • May 7, 2024
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Having just upgraded to the new app, I’m utterly amazed at how poor it is from a user perspective.

  • There is no longer a volume number indication
  • You cannot edit queues
  • You cannot add single songs to a queue as ‘play next’ or ‘add to end’
  • You cannot create or edit any alarms

How did this get through any UAT? These are basic features every Sonos user has enjoyed for years.

Absolutely ridiculous, please add this functionality back ASAP.

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Lyricist I
May 16, 2024

Having just upgraded to the new app, I’m utterly amazed at how poor it is from a user perspective.

  • There is no longer a volume number indication
  • You cannot edit queues
  • You cannot add single songs to a queue as ‘play next’ or ‘add to end’
  • You cannot create or edit any alarms

How did this get through any UAT? These are basic features every Sonos user has enjoyed for years.

Absolutely ridiculous, please add this functionality back ASAP.

Totally agree. Cannot find how to start a station from a track as well. Previous app was much better. 
please sort it Sonos. 

Lyricist I
May 16, 2024

I can no longer play Artist Radio via Tidal on the new app. Well you can see a list of tracks and select one track at a time. But wow.

Lyricist III
May 16, 2024

No-one can defend this diabolical release.

Hang around a little while and see...

I don't want to hang, I'd like to use my expensive speakers like I did few days ago. 

Contributor II
May 17, 2024

Having just upgraded to the new app, I’m utterly amazed at how poor it is from a user perspective.

  • There is no longer a volume number indication
  • You cannot edit queues
  • You cannot add single songs to a queue as ‘play next’ or ‘add to end’
  • You cannot create or edit any alarms

How did this get through any UAT? These are basic features every Sonos user has enjoyed for years.

Absolutely ridiculous, please add this functionality back ASAP.

Also no true play or equaliser control 

Lyricist I
May 17, 2024

Having just upgraded to the new app, I’m utterly amazed at how poor it is from a user perspective.

  • There is no longer a volume number indication
  • You cannot edit queues
  • You cannot add single songs to a queue as ‘play next’ or ‘add to end’
  • You cannot create or edit any alarms

How did this get through any UAT? These are basic features every Sonos user has enjoyed for years.

Absolutely ridiculous, please add this functionality back ASAP.

Yes. Appalling. Sonos has now plummeted in my estimation.
 

Look Sonos. It’s simple. Let us “down”grade to the previous version of the app until the new one can perform all the functions the old one could. The effect of what you’ve done is as if you’d broken into people’s homes and hobbled their expensive Sonos devices. What makes you think that’s an acceptable way to behave towards your customers? 
 

Give us the downgrade option fast. Every hour you delay means further damage to your brand. 

May 17, 2024

A week late, but I finally got a reply from Sonos after emailing the CEO. While the response continued the company's irritating habit of pretending there were positive as well as negative results from this whole debacle ("We’ve received a great deal of feedback thus far, on both the improvements made as well as where we fell short"), they are at least FINALLY answering questions about which specifically functionality will be returning to the app when:

"Additional improvements to screen reader for visually impaired customers: May 21
Adding to queue and playing next: early June
Sleep timer: mid-June
Snooze alarms: mid-June
Local music library search and playback: mid-June
Update Wi-Fi settings: mid-June"

I remain angry they took so long to do this very basic damage control, and mystified they didn't even ATTEMPT to provide this level of detail during Tuesday's Ask Me Anything, but it IS progress.

 

jgatie
May 17, 2024

A week late, but I finally got a reply from Sonos after emailing the CEO. While the response continued the company's irritating habit of pretending there were positive as well as negative results from this whole debacle ("We’ve received a great deal of feedback thus far, on both the improvements made as well as where we fell short"), they are at least FINALLY answering questions about which specifically functionality will be returning to the app when:

"Additional improvements to screen reader for visually impaired customers: May 21
Adding to queue and playing next: early June
Sleep timer: mid-June
Snooze alarms: mid-June
Local music library search and playback: mid-June
Update Wi-Fi settings: mid-June"

I remain angry they took so long to do this very basic damage control, and mystified they didn't even ATTEMPT to provide this level of detail during Tuesday's Ask Me Anything, but it IS progress.

 

 

That list of expected delivery dates has been posted here for almost a week:

 

May 17, 2024

A week late, but I finally got a reply from Sonos after emailing the CEO. While the response continued the company's irritating habit of pretending there were positive as well as negative results from this whole debacle ("We’ve received a great deal of feedback thus far, on both the improvements made as well as where we fell short"), they are at least FINALLY answering questions about which specifically functionality will be returning to the app when:

"Additional improvements to screen reader for visually impaired customers: May 21
Adding to queue and playing next: early June
Sleep timer: mid-June
Snooze alarms: mid-June
Local music library search and playback: mid-June
Update Wi-Fi settings: mid-June"

I remain angry they took so long to do this very basic damage control, and mystified they didn't even ATTEMPT to provide this level of detail during Tuesday's Ask Me Anything, but it IS progress.

 

 

That list of expected delivery dates has been posted here for almost a week:

 

Sorry, man, I hadn't seen it in any of the three threads where I've been lodging my concerns and reading others' (I did check all recent replies in each of those three before posting), and I assume you'll forgive me for assuming that it wasn't necessary to read every possible other thread before sharing the first glimmer of positive news I've seen here on this one 

But if they posted that 6 days ago, why in the world didn't they get that specific during Tuesday's AMA? I spent three damn hours waiting for exactly those answers, but they never came.

jgatie
May 17, 2024

Sorry, man, I hadn't seen it in any of the three threads where I've been lodging my concerns and reading others' (I did check all recent replies in each of those three before posting), and I assume you'll forgive me for assuming that it wasn't necessary to read every possible other thread before sharing the first glimmer of positive news I've seen here on this one 

But if they posted that 6 days ago, why in the world didn't they get that specific during Tuesday's AMA? I spent three damn hours waiting for exactly those answers, but they never came.

 

Sonos reps didn’t get that specific, but user @Andrew-s posted a copy of that post on page 29 of the AMA.  Unfortunately, there are too many threads to keep track, and Sonos’ efforts to combine some were met with howls of censorship.  I’ve no idea why they haven’t stickied the official threads like the one I linked and the original announcement, but Sonos is not well known for its communication prowess.

Contributor I
May 17, 2024

My connect gen 2 had an intermittent fault a few weeks ago, sonos support tried hard to fix the issue but eventually concluded that there was a hardware fault and persuaded me to return it in exchange for a 30% discount on a new Port. 
 

i asked and was given assurances that the Port would work with S1. This is important because my sonos system is in a holiday let and controlled by a cr 200 controller. It is not reasonable or practical to expect guests to download apps and register accounts just so they can play music in their holiday home for a few days. The old controller works perfectly for the purpose, guests can listen to music on Spotify or their favourite radio station very easily and even better they cant mess around with the settings. 
 

To be absolutely sure I checked the website and that too confirmed that Port works with S1. 
 

So, I agreed, returned my working connect (albeit with an occasional drop out from the router) and paid nearly £300 for a Port. 
 

When it arrived it transpired that it no longer can be downgraded to S1 as this functionality is not supported in the new app. 
 

Customer services don’t answer the phone or reply to emails. 
 

I have exchanged a system that worked modt of the time for one that doesn’t work at all and it only cost me £300. 
 

I’m going to try and reclaim my expenditure from my credit card with a section 75 claim if I don’t get some response from customer services soon