Finally the active song will be displayed in the queue.

It’s good that the queue finally opens to show the active song playing.  Pity it took 15 months to achieve!

Perhaps in another year we may be able to once again save the queue to a playlist?

The Sonos app on my home system started acting glitchy today, so I guessed there was an update. Sure enough, applied it and now back to normal. Is there some better way to know when updates are rolling out?

Great updates - especially showing queue position. That’s long awaited!

But I’m sure there was much discussion about confusing terminology the last time there was an official Sonos thread about updates - which I thought would inform the phrasing in future threads. But it seems not.

A ‘player’ update sounds like phrasing from a few years ago (or maybe is still an in-house term at Sonos) but is really confusing…

Today there was an app update and a system update.

If “check for system updates” is an option in the app, then “system update” is the wording that should be used.

Let’s retire ‘player’, for clarity!

OK….

What kind of shenanigans are you guys trying to perpetrate now? Please don’t try to tell me I was hallucinating 🌀🙃🌀

Take a look at the picture below and the yellow line. When I ran the system update and opened the app just below the yellow line was a section that showed my three (3) sets of Ace headphones as being not connected. 

I said to Me, Myself and I...that’s cool. The app now displays the Ace headphones in a similar manner as a room; as I named each set. Black, White and Panda. Me, Myself and I all agreed it was a nice addition to the app.

Next I decided to update the App via the iOS App Store. After the update the section that showed my there (3) sets of Ace headphones was gone. What Da??? 😧

So, I deleted and reinstalled the app again. Still the section showing my Ace Headphone was no longer present.

OK guys...jokes aside...what gives??? 🤷

If you have automatic updates enabled, then it will update itself without having to search for one. That being said, the presence of an update does not mean the system should start acting glitchy. If it happens often, reaching out to the support team would be a good idea.

If you delete the app, it will clear the headphone section, as that information is cached. But once the headphones have been connected, they should show up like this, albeit in your own language:

I noticed that when I bring up a Playlist and use the Search command, it really doesn’t search that particular playlist. I mention this because it seems to not take me to that song in the current playlist, but instead places another instance of that song into the existing playlist. And I notice that the total number of tracks (or songs) increases by one. The app should really take you to that particular song in the playlist, but it doesn’t. 

If you have automatic updates enabled, then it will update itself without having to search for one. That being said, the presence of an update does not mean the system should start acting glitchy. If it happens often, reaching out to the support team would be a good idea.

Reply: I have auto updates enabled, but they do not happen before I have problems on my system.  As was noted at the top of this thread “As with most updates, this will be a Phased Rollout, which means that you may (or may not) get the update pushed to your system.”

So...again, I ask, is there some way to know when updates are planned BEFORE they are rolled out? I am looking for an alert so I know there is an update I need to apply as auto updates are not cutting it.

So far, Sonos has not provided any information about what is to be in updates in advance.

As a software developer, this makes sense to me. Features that are ‘expected” to make release sometimes get pulled at the last moment, due to various issues, in my experience. Providing ‘advance’ notice is merely an opportunity for failure, and often ridicule for developers. 

In my experience, one is better off being part of a ‘beta’ group, in which new features are tested more, but even that is no guaranty that what is ‘seen’ is in the next release. 

I am not asking to know what is in the updates and am not sure why you brought up this issue.  I am asking to know when an update is planned to be released because it impacts me as a user.  Surely you must know 24 hours before a release is planned, so that users could be given a heads up.