As I understand it, once OSX no longer supports Intel apps, there will be no desktop app for Mac. The desktop app has persistent access to the queue regardless of what content is currently being played. The mobile app and the web player only have access to the queue if one is playing tracks from your music library. In the case of the mobile app, the queue icon isn’t even present. In the case of the web player, the icon is present but is greyed out/non-functional.
I recognize that playing a local music library is probably only done by a minority of Sonos users but that community is not exactly zero either so if the desktop app is going to be discontinued, it would behoove Sonos to provide similar capabilities in one way or another. Given that the queue icon isn’t even presented in the mobile app, perhaps the simplest thing to do would be to fix it in the web player.
Further, the desktop app allowed one to select multiple tracks for deletion from the queue with a single action. The mobile app and the web player can only delete a track at a time. The reason I care is that I submit a large playlist to the queue and then prune it as I listen because if you don’t *and* th3e system reboots, it forgets it’s place in the queue and starts playing from the beginning again resulting in re-playing tracks that have already been played. If I’ve listened to many tracks before I try to prune them, one by one is going to get tedious so it would be good to have a multiple delete option in the desktop alternative. Given the richer interface of a web browser on a computer, the likely candidate it would be the web app for this function.
Saving the queue is also suboptimal in both the mobile app and the web player. In the mobile app, one can name the playlist to be saved but unlike the desktop app, one cannot see the names of playlists already saved so it’s harder to update an existing playlist and/or avoid a collision. The web player can’t save the queue at all.
I hope other folks will chime in on wanting this functionality.
Charles.
