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Thank you, to the developers at Sonos for taking what used to be a relaxing past time, listening to music and making it a frustrating stress fest.  In the five months since the crap app dropped Sonos has become a nightmare. I have alarms that I can’t control! Have to unplug the speaker because my schedule changed! Promises have been made and they have not been kept.  It is the end of October and these items are still missing. With the queue, I cannot save a queue. I cannot open the queue and have it take me to the song that is playing. I cannot turn on repeat and hit back button to go to the end of the queue. I have zombie queues, music is playing but I can’t control the speaker because it can’t connect to the speaker.  I have a turntable, I could connect it to Sonos. Not doing it! Nice to be able to listen to music. Yes, I have to get up to turn over album, have to keep album clean to avoid skips but, it responds when I drop the needle or turn the volume dial. 

Thank you, to the developers at Sonos for taking what used to be a relaxing past time, listening to music and making it a frustrating stress fest.  In the five months since the crap app dropped Sonos has become a nightmare. I have alarms that I can’t control! Have to unplug the speaker because my schedule changed! Promises have been made and they have not been kept.  It is the end of October and these items are still missing. With the queue, I cannot save a queue. I cannot open the queue and have it take me to the song that is playing. I cannot turn on repeat and hit back button to go to the end of the queue. I have zombie queues, music is playing but I can’t control the speaker because it can’t connect to the speaker.  I have a turntable, I could connect it to Sonos. Not doing it! Nice to be able to listen to music. Yes, I have to get up to turn over album, have to keep album clean to avoid skips but, it responds when I drop the needle or turn the volume dial. 

What a shame that there is a lack of moderation of this site and it is now littered with spam

Watching old reviews praise Sonos for their app and user experience really hits hard now. Such a shame what this “new” Sonos team has done. It’s like their tender egos were affected by the great work done by the people that came before them. Instead of maintaining and improving something that was already great they are trying to stick out to their managers as something “new and improved”. Just like the people responsible for deleting all the old and awesome YouTube content from the channel. Darko Audio on the Five  

I think the back and forth between records/sonos/bluetooth for the wrensilva console is problematic in connecting multiple different Sonos equipments. I’m taking it off my Sonos for use with Bluetooth only. It seems to be the culprit in kicking off Sonos when you have multiple stations. I don’t think the system is capable of dealing with complexity of a unit that is sometimes connected via Sonos, sometimes connected via Bluetooth..  an expensive, not useful upgrade to a unit that would be better served via cheap Bluetooth connection.  Ultimately way more trouble than it’s worth.. they should avoid collaboration if architecture isn’t created with the proper ontology.  Would love if a wrensilva expert could correct the issue. Quite a few hours in and don’t see me recommending the unit to anyone.. picturing bros with beards talking about how cool it would be and not willing to put in the effort to make it work.. enjoy your ipas, know you’ve wasted a bunch of peoples time

Are these being delivered by snails?   Got a free Move Bag with my Costco order and its telling me estimated ship date is 3/28/2025.  Why is it taking 7 months to get a bag?????

I have a few Sonos systems in two houses.  One of the houses has both a local cable modem and Starlink system.  Like most of you, it doesn’t matter what you do with your internet, Wi-Fi, hardware, app, etc., Sonos remains broken.Anyways, on my last support call, the tech said I need to fully dismantle my Starlink system as Sonos is not compatible with Starlink since planes block the satellite signal.  Even though I had explained Sonos continues to have the same problems on either platform (one off, everything reset, I have a decent idea of what I’m doing), I said thank you and ended the call as I didn’t want to explain how Starlink, trigonometry, etc. work.  😂😭😂I’m curious to see what suggestions come next.  Remove all green articles of clothing from the house?  Refrain from dairy products for at least 12 hours before using the app?  Make sure any tinfoil rolls are stored parallel to the drawer or cabinet fronts?  :)

This has been chewing at me for a while. So I thought I’d vent a see what others think. Now that Sonos seems to run regular 20% off sales does this not undermine the 15% off for upgrading? They should at least let you apply your upgrade credit to the sale prices. Now it just seems insulting. I’ll just keep the old working hardware and wait for sales. Seems like an FU to those that sent in old gear for credit. Now new users get a better discount.

Three times, Sonos support has ghosted me. They ask for diagnostics, which I send, and then I never hear back, and emails on that thread go completely unanswsered.The last two times this has happened, Sonos support had actually initiated the conversation with me after an email I’d sent to ceo@sonos.com.How do I get Sonos support to stop ghosting me?My system worked fine before the app update in May, and it’s been a source of daily frustration ever since

I am disappointed that Sonos Facebook actually blocks customers from their Facebook page.  This is disappointing. Sonos should understand the level of frustration of customers and engage with them constructively and efficiently. If they do not wish this to be done through comments on their posts, then they should provide a better way. And definitely avoid blocking its customers on social media, which is honestly petty for the company.

why cant I use an upgrade discount on sale items.? also why is the discount applied after tax Ends up in Canada being 2% Not really a discount....

Hi friends,I started getting quite a few emails over the last week or so. They’re all updates on topics in Sonos Community. I was involved in the thread a long time ago. The email tells me that if I don’t want to keep getting updates to go in and remove it from my Favorites. I will paste a portion of the email. Anyway, I follow the link but I can’t see anywhere to edit or remove.     - Craig  Hi there, casAlta, The topic 'music library after latest app update' on the Sonos community has received a reply from ninja2. Click here to read the reply, and add your own voice.NB. There may be more responses posted to this topic in the future, however you will not receive further notification until you visit the forum again.If you no longer wish to receive any further notifications about this topic, click here to remove it from your favorites list. 

Hi everyone. Given the ongoing issues caused by their garbage app which this shilling company refuses to fix, what are the superior alternatives to Sonos out there in the market, made by responsible companies that don’t have complete contempt for their customers?All suggestions gratefully received.

It would be nice to be able to dedupe a playlist. Is it possible?

He also might forgo a future bonus. Courage. Extended warranties are for soundbars and plugin speakers currently in warranty. Something about a quality ombudsman.  Trigger warning - ~3 mins of Spence talking lol  

What is a reasonable time for a reply from the time a problem is reported?

Not only has the POS CEO ruined a great company, he’s lost money for the shareholders and undermined the used market. At this point I have to assume he has intentionally devalued the company because a bigger corporation is entertaining a buyout and by driving down the value he will get a big kick back from the new buyers. Absolutely shameful example of “leadership”. Sonos shares slide as Morgan Stanley issues a double downgrade, slashes PT

My brother is over and we were reminiscing of the years when Sonos was a company that was awesome and special. I started talking about the efforts they used to put into their YouTube channel. Like the Rick Ruben interview, the sound testing videos and the various launch videos. I was truly bummed to see the “new” Sonos took it upon themselves to delete all the old videos. Seems like pretty unnecessary to delete the history of a company that some many people used to love. Anyone else have some old favourites that are now gone? The amp launch video really stands out in my mind right now. Just another example of how little this company cares about it’s last and it’s loyal users   

The newest version of the app requires additional permissions, is bloated with ads, does not work offline, and enables sonos to sell my personal data.This is unacceptable.I’ve tried to roll back to 16.1, but this doesn’t work with my UPNP media Library.I’ve also tried to use play.sonos.com and login.sonos.com, but on all my devices it says “Screen size unsupported”.On my linux desktop I have noson and another unofficial controller.I’ve tried PlexAmp for android, but the streaming to devices is very buggyI need a solution that just works.

Mine is:Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John

Dunno maybe Wirecutter should fix their network, reboot, get a new mesh system.I’m having no issues with the app, must be them. 🤣  But in all (not) seriousness this is very brave of them 🤣Will be interesting to see what they recommend when they finish redoing the article.  Quote, emphasis mine: We are completely re-envisioning this guide and will no longer recommend the Sonos multiroom audio platform as the best overall choice. Please see our note at the top of the guide for more details.After careful consideration, we no longer recommend the Sonos multiroom audio platform as the best overall choice. Sonos recently rolled out a major update to its control app that had a ton of problems, leaving its customers with a much less intuitive experience than they had before. While the company is slowly addressing some of the major issues with the new app, this is not the first time Sonos has hurt customer trust through poorly executed changes.That said, Sonos still makes great speakers that

I am with all others that vented their dislike of the latest update(s), yet I am more worried looking into the WHY of this…imho: The write off of so many functions and features can only be to soon re-introduce them as 'new services' for an extra cost!!!Why else would any sane company otherwise create such chaos in a good working service?