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April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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  • April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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.

 

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 new Web 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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1674 replies

Contributor I
May 10, 2024

Boy, this app su[c]ks….

Looks better, cleaner, but only looks.

It lacks tone of simple stuff:

  • Try getting back to the specific part of a track: you cant - there is no slide bar there. [tidal]
  • Try playing all music from the "top tracks" of an artist. You cant, there is no way to add them all to the next to be played, or to play the entire list. [tidal]
  • Same thing under "artist radio" [tidal]
  • alexa in multiple languages? cant, still, like 6 years in the works and absolutely no news here

I'm waiting for the day they will just brick my system because it is to old. Sad to see such an once amazing company follow this path….

Super bad user experience.

 

Enthusiast I
May 10, 2024

After 2 days of this horrible app, I sure hope all of the complaints are listened to and fixed.  My system that I have had for 15 years is almost bricked.  Even my music library on my NAS is useless.  No information shows and it plays the first song from an album and that’s it.

fullerscopes
Enthusiast I
May 10, 2024

I've been a loyal Sonos user for years, but frankly if it wasn't for Alexa integration my system would now be virtually unusable, not least because of the missing sleep timer. This app is very poor, beta quality at best. I can't even reliably start a live radio stream from the UK Global Player app. At least my own music library still works, unlike some others.

Album art still there too?

jgatie
May 10, 2024

I really wish people would stop blaming the engineers/developers or the QA teams.  No developer would release this half-baked software unless they were forced to by management.  This is so obviously not on the developers and/or QA, I don’t know why anybody would even be mentioning them.

Lyricist II
May 10, 2024

does anyone find the app slow and takes forever to connect?  I keep getting a message “failed to connect” and then it connects.  play button does not respond until it’s ready.  I listen to a lot of podcasts and it keeps restarting the podcasts.  I find the new app terrible.  Am I the only one?

Ken_Griffiths
May 10, 2024

I've been a loyal Sonos user for years, but frankly if it wasn't for Alexa integration my system would now be virtually unusable, not least because of the missing sleep timer. This app is very poor, beta quality at best. I can't even reliably start a live radio stream from the UK Global Player app. At least my own music library still works, unlike some others.

Album art still there too?

The album art is working on our iOS controllers, but the Android tablet album art isn’t showing. The tracks do play via either controller App. Seems the Android App is lagging behind the iOS version.

Lyricist II
May 10, 2024

I really wish people would stop blaming the engineers/developers or the QA teams.  No developer would release this half-baked software unless they were forced to by management.  This is so obviously not on the developers and/or QA, I don’t know why anybody would even be mentioning them.

Just following orders then? Where have we heard that before!

jgatie
May 10, 2024

Just following orders then? Where have we heard that before!

 

Annnnd, we have gone full Godwin.  There it is, folks!  Who had 4 days in the pool?

fullerscopes
Enthusiast I
May 10, 2024

I've been a loyal Sonos user for years, but frankly if it wasn't for Alexa integration my system would now be virtually unusable, not least because of the missing sleep timer. This app is very poor, beta quality at best. I can't even reliably start a live radio stream from the UK Global Player app. At least my own music library still works, unlike some others.

Album art still there too?

The album art is working on our iOS controllers, but the Android tablet album art isn’t showing. The tracks do play via either controller App. Seems the Android App is lagging behind the iOS version.

Yes, Android user here so no Art. I've gone back to previous version now so happy that everything works as it did before update.

Lyricist III
May 10, 2024

I really wish people would stop blaming the engineers/developers or the QA teams.  No developer would release this half-baked software unless they were forced to by management.  This is so obviously not on the developers and/or QA, I don’t know why anybody would even be mentioning them.

Exactly! This is NOT a failure in programming or whatever. It IS a management screw up of biblical proportions!