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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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    Kumar
    November 6, 2017
    Have you noticed that you are the only one trying to look for positives about the new App.
    LOL. Look around you. And Sonos has thousands of customers.
    Kumar
    November 6, 2017


    You must be working for Sonos's Development Team... I will be selling all my Sonos equipment (15 components) on Ebay if I do not see either a rollback or an announcement of a rollback to the old GUI.
    You should DO just that, instead of merely threatening to.

    Speaking here as a member of the Sonos Development team...Ha Ha Ha.
    FlorentBL
    Contributor III
    November 6, 2017

    Simple? Nope, what used to take 2 clicks, now takes 10.

    Give one example of this please.

    Easy: change room!
    Need to go up left, then bottom middle, then scroll to find your room if you have more than three, then bottom left to unscroll and go back to your usual screen, then My Sonos (gosh, forgot to go up and left to scroll again !) then bottom left for My Sonos, and scroll again vertically and horizontally to get my favourite !!!!

    And you find it easier on the new app ? 😉
    pwt
    pwt
    Virtuoso
    November 6, 2017
    I will be selling all my Sonos equipment (15 components) on Ebay if I do not see either a rollback or an announcement of a rollback to the old GUI.

    I wish you'd just stated this at the start of your post, then I would't have wasted 30 seconds reading the rest of it.
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      Kumar
      November 6, 2017
      I have to say that much of the conversations here and on other similar threads are very amusing and entertaining. I am often reminded of my four year old granddaughter, who simply refuses to taste food that looks even a little different. But to her credit she also loves the story Green Eggs and Ham, and hopefully is absorbing some messages from it.

      I am also reminded of her two years ago when she had a play pen. Any time she wanted to get attention, she used to start tossing her toys out of the pen. She did not know about eBay.
      FlorentBL
      Contributor III
      November 6, 2017
      I have to say that much of the conversations here and on other similar threads are very amusing and entertaining. I am often reminded of my four year old granddaughter, who simply refuses to taste food that looks even a little different. But to her credit she also loves the story Green Eggs and Ham, and hopefully is absorbing some messages from it.

      I am also reminded of her two years ago when she had a play pen. Any time she wanted to get attention, she used to start tossing her toys out of the pen. She did not know about eBay.

      Actually, your post is rather insulting. It's not a matter of being unable to adapt, it is just basic ergonomic design to avoid having to move finger all over the screen for basic things. If I remember well, the previous application had just a button up middle to scroll down and select room, with a group button to group rooms.

      At this level of bad faith Kumar, it's not only blindness, it's sectarism not to see that!
      Kumar
      November 6, 2017

      Simple? Nope, what used to take 2 clicks, now takes 10.

      Give one example of this please.

      Easy: change room!
      Need to go up left, then bottom middle, then scroll to find your room if you have more than three, then bottom left to unscroll and go back to your usual screen, then My Sonos (gosh, forgot to go up and left to scroll again !) then bottom left for My Sonos, and scroll again vertically and horizontally to get my favourite !!!!

      And you find it easier on the new app ? ;)
      Of course; I can do it a lot faster now that I know the app, compared to your tap dance.
      And for specifically desired outcomes, I can even change rooms without either the app or the controller on the Mac.
      FlorentBL
      Contributor III
      November 6, 2017

      Of course; I can do it a lot faster now that I know the app, compared to your tap dance.
      And for specifically desired outcomes, I can even change rooms without either the app or the controller on the Mac.

      Give you recipe and we'll see if it fits my needs.
      John B
      November 6, 2017
      @FlorentBL. I agree with your point about it being irritating to have to keep getting the Now Playing screen out of the way to get back to the navigation bar. A lot of people have said the nav bar should be permanently visible and I am hopeful Sonos will respond on that. I find it marginally quicker and less irritating to swipe the screen down and up rather than tap the arrows. Also, to select a room and return to the Now Playing screen, double tap that room in the Rooms list.
        FlorentBL
        Contributor III
        November 7, 2017
        @John B. Definitely, having the navigation bar permanently would help. I also tend to think that the red menu is misleading. It would be easy to merge the two interface, or to support all features in both places. For instance: clicking on the name in the red menu would change the display of the room, keeping the checkbox for grouping. Currently, I see also a bug in the fact that you cannot "move" music using this menu (actually it doesn't work for me, it just shuts down music).
        And then we have the My Sonos which seems just a matter of icon size to me. It could become a very convenient interface just as the "App Panel" should they lower the size of the icons and adopt a convenient 4 x 4 or 4 x 5 grid.
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