The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

I hope my post will be answered, and not buried amongst the 64 other pages in this thread… 

TLDR: I can’t see my audible books, of which there are thousands in my library, I only see the first… 200 or so, and the one that I want is beyond that… A little history for those who care.

I am a blind voiceover user who was fine with the app because I didn’t have to update… Then all of a sudden for one reason or another my Sonos Rome would not be seen by the Sonos app, bearing in mind it was the older version, so I literally was forced to update.  don’t have much of a problem with it, except for the aforementioned Audible issues… I can deal with the sometimes  focus issues, and things like that, just as long as it eventually gets fixed… What I don’t like however is the fact that you can’t search for books like you used to… You can search for pretty much everything else it seems, but not that… if/when those items will return? Or could they already possibly be in a beta? Any idea on how to join the new beta for those who are visually impaired? Unless the door for that opportunity has closed… I know that were a handful of people testing the app for accessibility…

Hey Sonos, we Need Dark Mode in the App.

I agree, but I guess it’s not a priority, as all later Apple and Android OS’s have it built-in for use with Apps anyway, as the attached screenshot shows…

I for one would like to be able to shuffle all my songs, the simple feature has never worked on Sonos if you had large librarie, but has been a known issue for years. Fix this kind of problems before you create new ones 

It’s really quite easy to achieve this. Create an .m3u playlist of your entire locally held shared library and on viewing the track-list in the new Sonos App, hit the (middle) ‘shuffle’ button to shuffle ALL to the chosen room, or group. In the case of my own setup here, I am easily able to ‘shuffle’ 25,697 tracks from my locally held NAS library in the new Sonos App  - See below screen capture recorded a few moments ago …

At say 3 minutes per track (many are of course much longer than that) - that’s about 1,284 (approx.) hours, or  53½ days of playback @ 24 hours per day (or 7½ weeks+ of music) by my reckoning.

Let me just add, I’ve never listened to everything using this method (ever)… ha ha 😂

It’s gonna be years before they fix the current issues at the current rate.  Plus they’ve ignored local library issues for years it just doesn’t seem like they care to invest any effort in improving it.

I mean they tested the new search for over a year and didn’t even bother to include local libraries in the test to get it ready for the new app. Now they are scrambling to add it in. Not to mention the smbv2/3 indexing bugs that required smbv1 as a workaround still not fixed and the workaround doesn’t work anymore. 

If you look around the community too @vilden66, it’s even simple to export the playlists I mention from .xml files, like those available through iTunes.

In my own use-case I choose to remove the extraneous directives, extended directives and comments (they’re not used by Sonos), but it’s not necessary to do that if you don’t want to mess with those elements. All will work just as quickly anyway with such large playlists.

I for one would like to be able to shuffle all my songs, the simple feature has never worked on Sonos if you had large librarie, but has been a known issue for years. Fix this kind of problems before you create new ones 

It’s really quite easy to achieve this. Create an .m3u playlist of your entire locally held shared library and on viewing the track-list in the new Sonos App, hit the (middle) ‘shuffle’ button to shuffle ALL to the chosen room, or group. In the case of my own setup here, I am easily able to ‘shuffle’ 25,697 tracks from my locally held NAS library in the new Sonos App  - See below screen capture recorded a few moments ago …

At say 3 minutes per track (many are of course much longer than that) - that’s about 1,284 (approx.) hours, or  53½ days of playback @ 24 hours per day (or 7½ weeks+ of music) by my reckoning.

Let me just add, I’ve never listened to everything using this method (ever)… ha ha 😂

 

 

Thanks, maybe I was unclear in my post. Your solution demands a local library on a NAS or a desktop computer running 24/7. I have Apple Music and tried all sorts of different solutions to add playlists contains all my songs. It just don’t work to add 20k+ playlist with Sonos… made a screen recording but I can’t attach it here like you did ☹️

It’s possibly timing out or a restriction imposed by Apple or Sonos - I seem to recall there is 15s time-out period to load tracks to the queue, but maybe there’s a limit of the amount of tracks too… Just as an example, I think Amazon impose a 500-track playlist limit. You might find it easier to use a locally held library instead, shared using the SMB v2 (or higher) protocol - you can do that with a PC or MAC computer, if you prefer to not use a NAS.

Found the GIF