Retired Sonos Staff

Now Available, the New Sonos 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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tomgle

Lyricist II

Does anyone really like the new update? It seems like a step backwards giving us less info per screen and more clicks to access functions. Also, the white color is blinding at night. I had to give it one star in the Google Play store because zero stars was not an option.

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olc

Avid Contributor I

Two thumbs down! Luckily, my system works fine, but the new app is clunky, counter-intuitive and aesthetically unappealing. I really hope there's a remedy on the way.

The remedy is to Google for Sonos 7.4 apk and download and install it. The ignore Sonos when it wants to install a new version.

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tomgle

Lyricist II

Two thumbs down! Luckily, my system works fine, but the new app is clunky, counter-intuitive and aesthetically unappealing. I really hope there's a remedy on the way.

The remedy is to Google for Sonos 7.4 apk and download and install it. The ignore Sonos when it wants to install a new version.

Thank you for this info!!! I googled 7.4 and downloaded the 28.7 Mbyte APK from a Mirror site. Now I need to find an APK installer to install it after wiping the Sonos update. Hopefully I'll be able to keep using this 7.4 APK until Sonos fixes their Malware.

jgatie

Nobody likes change, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Better to accept; the sooner one does, the faster it will make the transition from new to familiar.

I like change when it actually makes something better. Just different isn't better. And yes the new one will become familiar but that doesn't make it better. Too many tech companies seem to think that they have to keep making "improvements" that really aren't so they can look like they are 'improving" the product. We're not that stupid. Different isn't always better. When you have something fully functional, just leave it alone.

And yet the old app, which is now the ideal, was once described in the same terms, by the very same users. It was derided for being unituitive, too many clicks, wrong colors, different not better, etc. What changed about the old app that caused it to go from a horribly non-intuitive "don't change just to change" "not better just different" failure to the nostalgic perfection it is seen as today? Nothing but time and familiarity.

geoffking65

Lyricist III

Hi,

Some feedback about the new app.

First, some background:
We have a 9 speaker SONOS system throughout the house. Access is though a wall mounded iPad that acts as the master controller in our kitchen.

On continued use of the new App, these are my complaints.

1.White Background. Caused all members of the family to think the app had frozen.
2.White background much harder to view content (white light vs content) causes eye dilation. Forces all content to be harder to read.
3.Menu / navigation options moved. Yes – we all re-learn where they are but there were extra steps to view my favourites like the original app.

Regards,
Geoff

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Silverthorn

Prodigy II

The white is a bit harsh. The only other thing I find odd is the toolbar disappears when you maximise the playing album. Maybe that's for people who use a phone perhaps? I like to check out the artwork and queue sometimes and it's odd to see it vanish at that point.

Dark mode would be good.

"I saw the Stooges and the MC5"

testcard

Prodigy I

Bizarrely, the tool bar disappears on an iPad too when the Now Playing Screen is maximised. Really no need to hide it as there’s acres of empty white screen that could be utilised better.

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Silverthorn

Prodigy II

Yeah, I use an iPad normally so I was assuming it is for phone users or something. Seems odd to have it disappear in just the one spot. Took me a minute to work it out first time.

"I saw the Stooges and the MC5"

Belly M

Bizarrely, the tool bar disappears on an iPad too when the Now Playing Screen is maximised. Really no need to hide it as there’s acres of empty white screen that could be utilised better.

This is probably my biggest gripe, appreciate that I can pull down the screen but it would be better if left visible.

Paulw123

Virtuoso

TOO MUCH WHITE.
Sonos seem to be copying google play music which is all white with a splash of orange. Just because the big boys do it, doesn't make it right.
Replace the white background with the classic sonos blue flowery background, I loved that on the pc.

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Introducing Navigation with Tabs:

Explicit Language Filtering

Long Press to Group

iOS 11 and Android O Support

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