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app defaults to wrong speakers when changing music selection

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So the latest update is terrible. I have a Sonos beam and 2 satellites in the living room and a Sonos move 2 in my garage. The system in the living room is for movies and tv and I hardly ever use it for music. I listen to music in the garage as that’s where I work. In the new app , when I go to play music it defaults to the living room. So I have to change it to the garage. No biggie. Problem is that while listening to music in the garage, if I decide to change channels or genres it automatically defaults back to the living room instead of staying with the move 2 that was already playing music. Is there a way to change the default speakers to the move 2 and not the living room system?

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mdgsolo

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Did no one beta test this before dropping it on the public??

Same as everyone else here- huge lag time for any command and if you make any changes to any of your playlists, songs, or artists it automatically defaults back to one (completely ancillary) room and you have to start over selecting and de-selecting rooms to try and get it back running in any other rooms

What a giant step backwards for Sonos.

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LindaSeattle

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Same problem. Keeps defaulting to the family room and often stays on the previously listened to music. I also can’t pause or change volume. When I try to listen in the living room and I click family room, click living room, and then hit apply the music automatically defaults to the family room even if it isn’t clicked!

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Drjdk

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Same issue, mine always defaults to “basement” now which is where the Beam and our tv is, so someone upstairs just trying to play some music interrupts the movie downstairs! So annoying!!

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Mrscottie

Lyricist I

Crazy defaulting to a room where night worker sleeps - you can’t imagine how much repeated sudden awakenings are unappreciated! Sonos is diving from much loved to source of anxiety

please sort this soon!!!!

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Wireboy

Lyricist I

Completely ridiculous that this is required, but it seems that you can change the prioritization by moving a room’s position in the alphabetical list.

I stopped waking people accidentally with loud blasts of music from my Beam and Play set up by changing the room’s name from Living Room to Zee Living Room.

Just in case that helps someone…

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Jbraas

Lyricist I

Having the same default speaker issue as everyone else and agree very annoying.

Someone mentioned above about possibly renaming the speakers. I did that and it appears to have worked. Sonos puts them in the app in alphabetical order causing it to default to an area I didn’t want. Renamed that speaker changing the order and it now appears to be working the way I want.

Annoying, but a possible “fix” until Sonos truly fixes this.

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Mrscottie

Lyricist I

Great - thanks

I think that workaround has stopped it happening

Perhaps it needs a set default speaker option for each user in the next update?

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Ahaeffner

Lyricist I

Renaming my speakers worked for me. Whichever you want defaulted make sure that’s earlier in the alphabet. I named mine to start with an A. Seems to have worked!

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Dan59

Trending Lyricist I

This is so friggin annoying. I open the “app” and it defaults to my play 3 , while in a different room I uncheck the play3, choose my playbase and Move, hit apply and then it plays all 3!! I unchecked the play 3!!!!! Also my move plays without the bass. I have to go in uncheck it and the playbase then return to the menu check the Move first and then the playbase in order for the Move to function properly. Whoever was in charge of this should be canned and their Ritalin increased. BRING BACK THE PREVIOUS APP!!! It worked just fine.

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Scottishp

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So the latest update is terrible. I have a Sonos beam and 2 satellites in the living room and a Sonos move 2 in my garage. The system in the living room is for movies and tv and I hardly ever use it for music. I listen to music in the garage as that’s where I work. In the new app , when I go to play music it defaults to the living room. So I have to change it to the garage. No biggie. Problem is that while listening to music in the garage, if I decide to change channels or genres it automatically defaults back to the living room instead of staying with the move 2 that was already playing music. Is there a way to change the default speakers to the move 2 and not the living room system?

I couldn’t agree with this more.

This is the first time I’ve found comfort in this app, being that’s everyone else seems to be having the same issues. Given this is a home entertainment system it would be my first thought for it to almost know the closest location you were to the speakers around you. So infuriating!!!

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