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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 23, 2024
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Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable Home screen.

The new Home screen provides faster access to Sonos system controls with one easy swipe up, making tab to tab jumping a thing of the past. As a leader in sound experience that’s focused on creating a better way to listen, Sonos intentionally redesigned the app on a modern software platform for an easier, faster and better experience that can support more rapid innovation.

The reimagined app supports all existing S2 products and will be available globally through a software update for the S2 mobile app.

100+ streaming services, one Home screen

The redesigned Sonos app prioritizes a listening experience that’s human - allowing you to bring your true favorites front and center and giving you more control to make your streaming experience your own.

Get into your music (and off the app) faster: No need to tap between tabs — the new Home screen serves up all your favorite content and controls, all in one place. Quickly jump back into your recently played, browse libraries and recommendations from your preferred services, and fill your home with music and all the sounds you love.
Customize and curate: Enjoy unparalleled curation by designing your Home screen to reflect how you listen. Pin rows of your favorite content and services; then move, edit, or rearrange them to your liking.
Search every streaming library: Look for an artist, song, podcast, or audiobook across all your preferred streaming apps at once via an easy-to-use search bar that’s always available right on your Home screen.
Elevated system control: Swipe up from the bottom of your Home screen to seamlessly control your entire system and access a visual overview of what’s playing on each of your products, quickly group speakers, and dial in on the perfect volume from anywhere in the app.

Accessible from any modern web browser, a brand new web app allows listeners the same seamless system control as the mobile app.

The Web App will be available alongside the redesigned mobile app on May 7, 2024.

Want to find out more about the new Sonos App? Have a look at the Info Hub section of the community for a complete rundown of the new user interface.

Here you can find the full press release.

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Dodger99

Lyricist III

Does anyone notice that there is NO participation or assistance here from Sonos?

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Dgf

Lyricist I

Brutal new app. No instructions, less functionality crappy look, .... why?

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amdyhou

Enthusiast I

Sonos has their collective fingers in their collective ears going “la la la la la...: ad infinitum. I find it quite incredible that a company can show such total disdain for its customers. It’s pathetic. They have such a simple solution within a few minutes… re-provide the old app… but they refuse to do it at our expense. A sad and pathetic failure.

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MattyJake

Enthusiast II

Thanks for making my 40,000+ song high-resolution music library and carefully curated playlists inaccessible and focusing on streaming services, SONOS!

As a serious music listener who cares about quality and pays artists for their money instead of streaming them pennies.

It’s good to know now, after 14 years and $7K invested into your hardware, that you don’t cater to serious music lisyeneers.

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Adam Hay

Lyricist III

I agree, the New Search is nowhere near as good as the classic.

The new update makes a point of how easy and accessible the new App makes the search function.

“Search is always available at the bottom of the Home screen. Just enter the artist, genre, album, or song you want, and get a set of combined results from all your services.”…. but it does only mention Services.

Can Sonos @Marco.B @Corry P confirm is Classic search will still be available in the New App or whether local libraries are now searchable? Or can the new app be run alongside S2 and there's no immediate need to switch to the new one?

The new Sonos App won't support classic search. And the new app will replace S2, so there is no possibility to run both at the same time.

So the infohub pages say that the on-device OS isn’t changing , which would suggest local library functionality remains — unless it has been engineered out of the new app only. This is killing me — I need some clarity on this.

There are no plans to stop supporting local library shares. The functionality to add/remove shares won't be available in the new Sonos app for now, but will be added with a future update. In the meantime the desktop controller for Win/Mac can be used to add/remove shares. Shares that are added to a system can be played from the new Sonos App.

I hope this helps...

Dear Marco.B

I can’t even see my Local Library in version 80. I have no Your Sources option on the home screen. I don’t even want to Search my library. I just want to be able to browse through it and select something I fancy out of the 400 CD’s in there. (Certainly I can see it in the Desktop app, and play from it. But I rarely open my Windows PC as I don’t need to)

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MattyJake

Enthusiast II

Why doesn’t everybody take a breath and hold off until the app is released before panicking?

This was 21 days ago. For those keeping score at home, things have not gotten better.

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MattyJake

Enthusiast II

Thanks. To be clear then, after updating from S2 to the new version (I'm not calling it an upgrade), users can still play from a local library but will have no ability whatsoever to search from it?

For now that is correct. There is an alternative though. You can use Plex, most NAS also support it. Universal Search does support Plex.

Yabut, if you created playllists in iTunes and then exported them too XML, it’s no playlists for you, even if you have Plex (which I do).

I’ve spent 20 years creating such playlists. Sonos decided to take a blowtorch to them and to the local playlists of thousands of other serious music listeners.

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jay house

Avid Contributor III

I have a fairly locked down work laptop, which blocks the Windows desktop controller, or at least sets my home “private” network to “public”, blocking some connections. The new web app gets around this nicely.

But there’s zero reason for something like a command to play music on a speaker, initiated by a web browser on your network to a speaker on your network, ever leaving your network. Why would this command go via the cloud?
I have a niggling feeling now that the new app does the same thing. Can anyone confirm? This would render even playing local files impossible if your internet connection went down.

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amdyhou

Enthusiast I

Ok, just attended the AMA. How shall I put it: it was not exactly what I hoped for. A few answers not addressing the community feedback. Lots of text but not addressing the questions… I learned that we now have play.sonos.com. Just entering a username and password is sufficient to control your speakers in your home, that is gonna be fun in the nearby future with all those leaked userid’s/passwords flying around … How does this work? I’d like to block access from play.sonos.com to my network and speakers. I’v made a network trace in Wireshark but that takes a lot of time to decipher…. Anyone have a good tip?

TIA!

Sonos. Complete idiots. IQ less than an amoeba.

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amdyhou

Enthusiast I

The CEO is squatted in a corner with his thumb in his mouth going “la la la la”…

C’mon out Patrick wherever you are! RESIGN! How could you morally and ethically remain?

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