General feedback and conversation

l was recently sent an email asking to upgrade and discard my existing speakers. In doing this l could get them blocked and get 30% off a new set up. This raises 2 concerns, 1 my speakers cost me £300 each and trade in value is now £30 and 2 if anyone buys second hand this may already have been done rendering your purchase useless? I must say l am very disappointed in this email, l buy high end stuff to last not to be offered £30 trade in off another 2gen item. Your thoughts please ?

Hi Patrick Spence and Sonos in general.. I´m really sorry to hear, that you stop supporting old systems. But in a way, it is kind of okay. Eventually things like this stop, unfortunately. But telling us, that the rest of our system, connected with these products also will be influenced by this outfacing of old systems, is outrageous! Furthermore also telling us, that in time our old loudspeakers will not work anymore, is even more outrageously!!! That is “putting a gun to our heads” policy, only to force us to buy new stuff. We don’t have a choice. Furthermore also a gigantic waste of good and working electronics, just to be added to our global waste problems. I really encourage you to think this whole philosophy over again, and act accordingly to benefit your customer in a better way than this! I bought my first Soundsystem, when I was 13 years old. It was a complete B&O system 3000, with a CDX player and a tangential phono. I sold it back in 2010, when switching over to Sonos, an

Any recent movers to another ecosystem? Any one currently looking at moving? I’d be interested in your experiences and thoughts. Thanks

Did Sonos mean 70% discount to trade in your obsolete devices? Should we all ask for 70% discount? #sonostradein70discount

I have 13 SONOS units, including ZP100’s and ZP80’s that work perfectly. Today, SONOS sent an email announcing that 10 of the units will no longer get software updates as of May 2020. So, if any music service,  MS Windows, or Apple makes a security change after May 2020 that the existing software doesn’t agree with, then my system will stop operating.  The replacement cost of these 10 units is $4,650 and even with 30% offered for trade-ins, my outlay to keep my system operating will be $3,255. SONOS’s management should keep a software update track for “legacy” equipment in order for existing functionality to remain working.

Did my post on this community feedback forum violate community standards? It seems to have disappeared. Please clarify. Thanks, Tobias

The “announcement” wasn’t bad enough, now you’re deleting the posts of the customers you’ve just angered?  Well done.  I'm sure this will gone in a matter of minutes….  This a completely ridiculous stance for the company to take.  They clearly don’t care what impact this obvious money grab will have on their customer base or the reputation.  No new features? Fine.  Saying that not only won’t you maintain these devices, but keeping them instead of spending for new ones renders all of your other devices obsolete?!? Are you kidding me?!  Come up with ONE example of ANY other company that has done something so egregious, SONOS.  Even remotely.  Seriously.  Give it a shot.  Already researching what other brand to go to when I sell my current products and dump “legacy” ones…  And btw - pricing on the Port? Absolutely insane. I has the same receiver in it as any other speaker, and only a line out.  Yet it costs almost as much as a Play:5, your flagship speaker??!  When it’s literally a few co

I have 10 Sonos speakers and I have, up until this point been a happy and loyal customer. Recently, I recycled two gen 1 Play 5s but after initiating the recycling program I realized that in my haste to buy Christmas gifts for my family I had made a mistake and should not have recycled these speakers. Now Sonos is saying they can not reverse the process. I am dismayed that Sonos is willing to lose me as a customer over what very clearly seems to be an ill-conceived and horribly unsympathetic program. I will continue to try to get this resolved with Sonos support and have worked my way up to a supervisor who emailed me their standard response:   Hello George, My name is Andrew and I'm a Supervisor here at Sonos Customer Care. I understand that you're looking to reverse the Trade-Up that you performed on your two Play:5 speakers. Unfortunately, as per the warning messages and the Terms & Conditions of the program, it cannot be reversed once it's confirmed within the Sonos Application

Does it shorten the long term life of the battery on the Sonos Move to leave it on the charging cradle for extended periods of time (e.g. several weeks)?

Using my Port to broadcast my turntable to my Sonos system but never to send audio to anything, it kinda bugs me to see it listed in my Airplay receivers list as I already have a long list of devices there. It’s a first world problem, I know, but I think it’d make sense to disable Airplay support on the Port for those of us using it as an input to the System audio system and never has an output.   Much love xxx

Why does my Sonos Move turn itself on? I use it sparingly, but often notice that it is not “offline”, even though I don’t intend to use it.

I'm looking at completing a 5.1 surround sound system in my living room with the Sonos Sub. As you can see in the photo below, the room has a bit of a strange layout (ignore the furniture placement, I drew in my current TV and speaker setup). I've got this recessed area that is approximately 8-9 feet off the floor above a hallway. There's actually an outlet up there, so this would be an awesome place to hide a subwoofer. I would probably lay it horizontally so that it wouldn't be visible from the floor. Any thoughts on if this would or wouldn't work? Any input would be appreciated!

I have purchased eight Play Ones, two play Threes, a Playbar, two Sonos Beams, two bridges and a Sub at a cost of over 4000 pounds. To play my personal collection of music on these i purchased two ipads and my whole family has iphones so they can each play their own music costing over 2000 pounds. For some ridiculous reason Sonos suddenly remove On this device for IOS devices...........Are they having a laugh. When i purchased these speakers i did so in the knowledge that i could play my own music from them without the need to pay for an additional streaming service just to listen to playlists that spotify or amazon create! These devices were advertised and sold on the strength of being able to play music from IOS devices. It even says on the box Made for iPod iPhone and iPad. I have clearly been mis-sold these items. How can this be ethical or even good business practice! If we have any lawyers in the community can we take out a class action for all the customers that have been mis-

I can’t tell you enough how annoying these new pop up ads are in the app. For the cash I have spent on my rather large system I think Donos really has a lot of nerve to have started this. The messages didn’t bother me but these pop ups are outrageous and really not fitting for an upscale product like this

As a loyal Sonos customer (13 products), I am highly disappointed that you took away the ability for users to play their downloaded library. For years itunes and other music services only offered the ability to purchase downloaded music. After spending thousands of dollars on purchased music, they are now migrating consumers over to streaming services; more recently in a big way by persuading your company to no longer offer the ability to play downloaded music. Personally, I understand the business decision for them; however it is significantly impacting me and my ability to enjoy 1. my downloaded music and 2. the Sonos system I have built to play it on.   I have spent thousands ($7k+) on itunes and Sonos products which I can no longer enjoy the way I want to. Sonos has significantly impacted my music experience in a negative way.   I will continue to purchase music on itunes but will no longer purchase Sonos products because of the inability to play my music; which is the point of a m

Wat een slechte stap van SONOS om nu de app met een reclamemelding op te starten.Julie timmeren genoeg aan de weg  De SONOS app gebruikers hebben hebben minimaal een SONOS product en weten dus wat het is.  kortom stop hier mee.

Hi Sonos designers, I would like to request the function to be able to play the sonos stream from my pc through my bluetooth or even wired headphones. We are in an office, and although the music choice is great and sonos platform works a treat, the general background noise of the office means I end up regularly swapping back to the spotify app/you tube through my headphones. Any ideas? Many Thanks

Selected a playlist from Apple music for an alarm music on my brand new Sonos One. Unfortunately it is impossible to snooze the alarm music when selecting "snooze" from the menu activated by 3D touch on the notification on the lock screen or after unlocking the screen. Instead I get a bizarre notification "No alarm playing." The only way to stop the music is by unlocking the phone and pausing the music, which defeats the convenience of snoozing the alarm. Any workaround or is this a defective feature?

Volume across different songs varies way too much 

Feature request: it would be great if we could create a list of songs that could not be played on the Sonos. We use Sonos in our office and some songs get overplayed. Ideally, this list would prevent a song being played through any connected service if requested, and it would skip these songs if they were on a playlist.

I’ve had Sonos installed on my Macbook for several years without problems such as this. However, having had a clean install of Mac-OS Catalina and reinstalled the Sonos app, I cannot gain access to my music library. A flag tells me that access is denied. I’ve searched everywhere for a solution but without success. Any help would be appreciated.Here are the Sonos details:Associated ZP: 192.168.1.42---------------------------------Play:3: KitchenSerial Number: 00-0E-58-FC-2A-6C:EVersion: 10.5 (build 53270100)Hardware Version: 1.8.1.2-2Series ID: A100IP Address: 192.168.1.42WM: 1OTP:---------------------------------Sub: Living RoomSerial Number: 00-0E-58-99-DA-3E:BVersion: 10.5 (build 53270100)Hardware Version: 1.8.2.4-2Series ID: A100IP Address: 192.168.1.132WM: 1OTP:

The only reason I purchased Sonos was for the compatibility with my iPhone. The sales person pointed out Sonos vs other available systems and demonstrated how easy Sonos paired with my iPhone. No streaming apps or other options necessary. So I went full in. My house is totally Sonos linked to my music library and playlists on my iPhone. And now Sonos has killed the only reason it was purchased. I understand technology upgrades, as Sonos seems to force weekly, but now my entire purchase is useless. I'm not on a streaming service, (extra cost) and I don't use a PC for iTunes. Bottom line, I spent a lot of money on Sonos vs Bose, and Sonos abandoned their advertised product. Looking forward to the class action. I'll be first in line!

I can't turn the mic on on a pair of Play One (Gen 2) speakers. The mic light is not on and no amount of poking, swiping or stroking of the mic logo will get it to turn on. My system has 2 other sets of paired Sonos One (Gen1) units hooked up to it through a Boost plus a Beam paired with two Play 1's. There's a pair of Play-5's on the system too and I'm wondering if there's a conflict??? All the other units fitted with mics work with Alexa ok, just this latest set doesn't. I've removed the speakers from the system and started over again with connecting them (several times in fact), with no joy. In all other respects the speakers work fine regardless of whether I use the Sonos app or the Alexa app. This pair just won't respond to voice commands.

my Stitcher app logo appears as Napster and when I click it all the settings have disappeared. Have I been hacked?

I have been having two issues with Tidal - one of which I believe I have fixed which is Within the Sonos app when accessing my Tidal Music Library nothing would come up yet when searching I could search Tidal, Today I have got my music library from Tidal now playing within Sonos. This is what I did.. In the Sonos app go to Settings - in Music Services section tap on Tidal - then Reauthorize Account. That seems to have solved Sonos accessing my Music Library of Tidal including Playlists, which I saw someone had others working but Playlists stopped working). Still having an issue casting from Tidal to a Sonos speaker but now at least I can play my music from Tidal to my Sonos speakers. 👍😁