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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
October 2, 2017

Now Available, the New Sonos App

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Sonos version 8.0 is introducing a brand new controller for iOS and Android. The new Sonos app makes it even easier to navigate, access, and control your music throughout your home. This new app comes side by side with voice control through Alexa devices, more about that here.

Check out our blog for the Remastered Sonos App. Full details on the new apps can be found here on their respective product guide pages. Let’s take a look at the new app:



Introducing Navigation with Tabs:


The Sonos app now has five tabs visible at the bottom when not in the full playing screen. The tabs are My Sonos, Browse, Rooms, Search, and More. See here:



Now your most used options are available with just one click, and Now Playing is always just one tap away.

My Sonos
We’ve consolidated all your personally curated Sonos Playlists, music service playlists, and Sonos Favorites into one, easy to use page on the Sonos app. You can edit fields to move around the order, or delete them entirely. You can now have up to 40 favorites total, up from 32.

Browse
Browsing your music is even easier as it no longer hides your other options. You can browse and move to different rooms all while keeping your place in the browsing menu. There’s also a dock on the bottom of the app that gives you easy access to the navigation tabs. You can swipe it up to reveal it at any time, then back down. We’ve separated browsing your music and the menu for Settings, so it’s even easier to find what you’re looking for.

Rooms
The menu starts highlighted on the active room, featured right on the app so that it’s even easier to see what’s playing in each room. There’s now an icon on that screen to show you where the music is coming from too. That includes if it was started by Alexa. The active room has a Group button to have it add others to the party.

Search
It hasn’t changed, just moved to an easy to find spot.

More...
All the settings and options are in here. You can add services, make alarms, get some help, and access all your settings. We think this will make it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for. And speaking of settings…


Explicit Language Filtering


Within Settings > Parental Controls, you can set a system-wide setting to filter songs with explicit content. Right now, this is working for Apple Music, and we’re hoping to add it for more services soon. Once the setting is on, Apple Music songs with the explicit tag will no longer play on your system.

Long Press to Group


Making it even easier to play music. With 8.0, you can press and hold the Play/Pause button (or mute on older players) to have your player join the most recently active player as a group. First, you have to start playing music on a player, (it can be from an alarm or any other source), and then just hold the button for a few seconds on another player. That second player will join the first one’s group and start playing the same music in sync.

There's another function of the long press, and that's being able to move recently stopped music to another room. First, stop playing music in any of your rooms. Then, press and hold the play/pause on another player for a few seconds. (Make sure that you don't start playing music anywhere else.) The queue or source will move to the unit you held the button for and start playing. The players won't group together and any existing queue will get whiped out in place of the new one.

iOS 11 and Android O Support


Lastly, version 8.0 has support for the latest operating systems from Android and iOS. This includes iOS 11 support for Trueplay on Sonos. Trueplay isn’t available on Android at this time.
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    Andi_Munich
    Lyricist II
    October 8, 2017
    You actually can edit the My Sonos page and arrange it as you wish. 'Edit' in the upper right corner.

    I don't think so? I can change the order of "Stations" and "Sonos playlists" but that's it. I can't make the playlist section disappear (i.e. move it to "Browse") to give the radio stations more screen space, and I can't change the order of radio stations by re-arranging them, can I?
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 8, 2017
      You actually can edit the My Sonos page and arrange it as you wish. 'Edit' in the upper right corner.

      I don't think so? I can change the order of "Stations" and "Sonos playlists" but that's it. I can't make the playlist section disappear (i.e. move it to "Browse") to give the radio stations more screen space, and I can't change the order of radio stations by re-arranging them, can I?

      Individual order, no. But you can do as you stated.
      John B
      October 8, 2017
      You actually can edit the My Sonos page and arrange it as you wish. 'Edit' in the upper right corner.

      I don't think so? I can change the order of "Stations" and "Sonos playlists" but that's it. I can't make the playlist section disappear (i.e. move it to "Browse") to give the radio stations more screen space, and I can't change the order of radio stations by re-arranging them, can I?      And could you in the previous app?
      Andi_Munich
      Lyricist II
      October 8, 2017
      You actually can edit the My Sonos page and arrange it as you wish. 'Edit' in the upper right corner.

      I don't think so? I can change the order of "Stations" and "Sonos playlists" but that's it. I can't make the playlist section disappear (i.e. move it to "Browse") to give the radio stations more screen space, and I can't change the order of radio stations by re-arranging them, can I?      And could you in the previous app?

      No, I could not change the order of radio stations (which still doesn't make this lack of customization any better) but at least, I could decide what goes into my "Favorites". And without "Playlists" being mandated and the radio station icons being smaller in v7, I could at least get 12 stations on ONE screen, without scrolling.
        Toolio
        Prodigy II
        October 8, 2017
        I also can’t change the order of radio stations with either the Android or iOS Sonos apps. Am I missing a trick? I just edited the names and stuck 1(space), 2(space) etc. in front. They then follow the number ordering.
          thptrek13
          Trending Lyricist I
          October 8, 2017
          Since the update my system keeps failing to connect to any of my music sources. I'm constantly having to unplug my bridge to get it to reset and then i works for a little while. Fix this Sonos
            Toolio
            Prodigy II
            October 8, 2017
            I have had no such problems, and I have a pretty complex network in my home. As others will tell you, it's very likely you have a networking issue. Unplug everything from your network and reboot your network then plug everything back in again. I suggest reattaching your Sonos gear last. A search of these forums will give you an idea of what order your should unplug and replug.
            thptrek13
            Trending Lyricist I
            October 8, 2017
            I have had no such problems, and I have a pretty complex network in my home. As others will tell you, it's very likely you have a networking issue. Unplug everything from your network and reboot your network then plug everything back in again. I suggest reattaching your Sonos gear last. A search of these forums will give you an idea of what order your should unplug and replug.

            I'll try it.
            antoine_3
            Lyricist I
            October 8, 2017
            This new app messed everything up I'm gonna have to unplug everything to try to get this bag online.
            Since the update, I lost 2 connect (I have 4), and the music does not stream from my nas anymore.
            Super bummed.
              LoopyLoo
              Lyricist II
              October 8, 2017
              I'm really fed up. I've just bought and installed a Playbar, moved countries (back to UK), installed the app from scratch on 2 different mobile phones...no music services are installing and Sonos says it's a fault with the accounts. It isn't. They're logged in on my laptop so the passwords are fine. I can't get it to sync to my music library on the laptop either. To say I'm disappointed would be the understatement of the century. I would very much like some music in my house!
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