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Contributor I
May 13, 2024
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New SONOS App - very poor - limited Spotify Playlists?

  • May 13, 2024
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Hi, as many others have also posted about the poor quality, functionality, and poor look and feel of the new App.  Clearly its not popular and has been hurried through, and/or not very well thought out from a ‘real user’ perspective.

SONOS, please supply a rollback option to S2 ASAP!

Also, can any other iOS users confirm that if subscribed to Spotify, then the number of Playlists appear to be limited via the new SONOS App.  I have a couple of hundred playlists in Spotify, these used to show in the S2 app with no issue, the new App only seems to show around 30 Spotify Playlists in my SONOS Playlist library.  Can anybody confirm this is an issue too?

Come on SONOS, please sort this mess out ASAP!!!

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Best answer by scot34

Same problem. Solution: Use the Spotify app to see and play your music on the Sonos platform. Just click the speaker icon/box on the music bar in the Spotify app and select your Sonos network and problem solved. Selected music playing will display on the Sonos app as before when playing.  

56 replies

Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

Is anyone- anyone- from Sonos itself going to comment here ? The Spotify playlist flaw is a massive miss from Sonos. Do they care ? Will they fix it ? Would be courteous to respond …

Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

To add, I updated the laptop controller and the Spotify  playlists available there were also severely reduced to a handful from my several hundred playlists. Interestingly it’s a shorter list and a different set of playlists  to the reduced ones available through the app. So inconsistency in the error as well. I’m not a tech  guy but tells me some ring is significantly wrong with the linkage backbone of the new app. 

 

and not for noting albums from  Spotify won’t  load at all 

Contributor I
May 25, 2024

The app is a total wreck!!!!
how can they try to sell stuff when nothing works

bill

Lyricist III
May 25, 2024

Haven’t been able to use speakers but intermittently since update and only by rebooting system and router. Then yesterday I opened the app and it actually worked. Listened to music for several hours. Today I opened to use Move by the pool and the Music Services would not connect even after resubmitting (Apple Music & Sirius).

I am currently shopping for other speakers to replace Sonos. 
I am done with Sonos.

Enthusiast II
May 28, 2024

I spoke with Sonos today (May 27) and they told me the 50 Spotify playlist limit is not a known issue, which I cannot believe considering I haven’t heard anyone say they can see more than 50. Also, in true Sonos fashion, they told me not to use their app but use the Spotify app instead. They even gave me a case number but told me nobody would be following up with me but rather I should just keep checking the app periodically. I love Sonos products, but I absolutely HATE Sonos software and support. This is quite possibly the worst “update” I have ever seen on any product I have ever owned. 

Contributor II
May 28, 2024

All I can repeat is IM FURIOUS about this new app!!

its an absolute mess to navigate round,

I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT😡

Hope theres an option coming to go back to the original……. I would NEVER recommend Sonos to anyone from now on! I have previously championed them, but no more!  I may consider pulling out myself now, cant be doing with this mess they've created😫

Trending Lyricist I
May 28, 2024

I emailed  the CEO and got back a generic email from Sonos Support about the limited Spotify playlists issue. Ultimate irony - I use the old grey S1 app on slmw

oldwr Sonos amps I use in a part of my house and guess what every single playlist appears there on the original app. And all my playlists in other music services seem to be there (Apple, Tidal). On that basis this must be a really easy issue to fix. I can’t believe they don’t know if it. 

areeter
Contributor I
May 29, 2024

Many years ago, Sonos won a large market share because they understood networking (ie WiFi), and they had a solid app. They had a great IT team.

For some reason this has been thrown out the window with the new app. I won’t go through the dozens of issues I’m having as I’d just be repeating what others have reported.It’s as if they replaced their IT department with a bunch of arrogant know-nothings…. dumping all the old code and replacing it with junk!

Sonos’s response to this mess is not encouraging. They have said that it took “courage” to introduce this app and they are “proud” of it. Really?

It’s not surprising that their stock price is down. And on about 20 May, their Chief Product Officer reportedly sold 40k of the company’s shares.

 

 

Flyboy
Lyricist I
May 30, 2024

Is there a way to just convert my existing Sonos Play:1 speakers & Sonos Connect to Bluetooth devices (bypass any Sonos software)?? I’ve lost all faith in Sonos as a company. Zero support availability.

Lyricist III
May 30, 2024

Its been 9 days and still no response. It really sucks that I am FORCED by Sonos to install a new app that does not work.

Why hasn't someone gotten back with me yet? Are you unable to let me install the previous app that works?

 

So, I sent this to Sonos today. Waited 1hr 15mins on the phone today and didn't solve 

my problem: will not allow me to log on. When I enter name/password and click to log on, it goes 

back to the logon page. 

 

So then I created a logon to this forum and was amazed there were so many problems with this new

app. It amazes me that we do not have a choice, and at the drop of a hat, BOOM, Sonos forces you off

with no option to even use your equipment. There have been many times over the 6 years I have used Sonos that everything comes to a grinding stop for no reason. With wireless so fragile, I am considering

just getting away from Sonos all together. Tired of spending hours and hours on the phone with these people…...