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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andrewmk

Renowned Enthusiast II

Everybody's experience and opinion is valid for them.

I'll say it again --- Everybody's experience and opinion is valid for them.

If someone doesn't like the app -- for whatever reason, whether they have provided valid, well reasoned arguments or maybe they just want to let off steam -- their experience, for them, is valid. That's not to say they won't get used to it, that they won't learn to adjust -- of course they will. But they have paid their money, they have an opinion and it is as valid as anyone else's.

But a handful of users on here who simply don't want them to be heard. There a few kinder souls on here like John B who will try and help out those who are struggling. Others just want to shout down any voices of dissent.

But stand back ----

Take a look at these forums. Take a look at recent reviews on the App Store and Google Play. It sounds like Sonos has simply got it wrong. I have decked out two houses with Sonos, not because I am ambivalent to their kit, but because I thought it was the best. But I am worried. We all should be worried -- there is so many competing products out there. But if things get better, it will be in large part because of all those people who took time out to complain, not because of those who tried to shout them out.

Andrew

pwt

Virtuoso

Everybody's experience and opinion is valid for them.

I'll say it again --- Everybody's experience and opinion is valid for them.

If someone doesn't like the app -- for whatever reason, whether they have provided valid, well reasoned arguments or maybe they just want to let off steam -- their experience, for them, is valid. That's not to say they won't get used to it, that they won't learn to adjust -- of course they will. But they have paid their money, they have an opinion and it is as valid as anyone else's.

But a handful of users on here who simply don't want them to be heard. There a few kinder souls on here like John B who will try and help out those who are struggling. Others just want to shout down any voices of dissent.

But stand back ----

Take a look at these forums. Take a look at recent reviews on the App Store and Google Play. It sounds like Sonos has simply got it wrong. I have decked out two houses with Sonos, not because I am ambivalent to their kit, but because I thought it was the best. But I am worried. We all should be worried -- there is so many competing products out there. But if things get better, it will be in large part because of all those people who took time out to complain, not because of those who tried to shout them out.

Andrew

That's eloquently stated. I generally like the new app, but I appreciate there are clearly folks who've struggled with it and their struggles are real.

The issue on this topic, on this forum, has been with the extreme hyperbole: folks reacting as if Sonos had committed genocide, rather than merely released an app update that was not to their taste.

4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300

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TheHellers

Enthusiast I

Thanks to the last two posters. I know it's not the end of the world but I get riled up when others do not have the social skills to understand that just because they are fine doesn't mean everyone else is. Too many years on the Internet.

(And have just gone through this with Hulu, their new app is atrocious on the Roku)

And I'm mostly disappointed with Sonos. Not liking their attitude towards their customers these days. Overall, I love their sound and have for nine years. And I don't want to have to change that. Because some of us apparently don't like change. ;)

Steve

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Sononos_fan

Enthusiast II

The issue on this topic, on this forum, has been with the extreme hyperbole: folks reacting as if Sonos had committed genocide, rather than merely released an app update that was not to their taste.

This takes the cake for extreme hyperbole.

pwt

Virtuoso

The issue on this topic, on this forum, has been with the extreme hyperbole: folks reacting as if Sonos had committed genocide, rather than merely released an app update that was not to their taste.

This takes the cake for extreme hyperbole.

I guess you haven't been reading the same forum as me.

4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300

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mwiseman

Enthusiast II

I know it's not the end of the world but I get riled up when others do not have the social skills to understand that just because they are fine doesn't mean everyone else is. Too many years on the Internet.

Amen!

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foxmeister

Lyricist I

The new Android app is dreadful. It now takes more clicks to get to my music. Why have you changed something that worked and was reasonably intuitive to something that is so bad. Messing around with software that worked is a great way to lose customers !!!

Guy_19

Enthusiast II

I may be in my 50s, but my two daughters are digital natives of 15 and 19 years. They live on their phones and know a thing or 2 about usability - and after this passage of time, with all their use of the new Sonos app; they both still hate it for the extra time that it takes to do anything, and they way it lights up the room because of the white background.

7 rooms: One SL Stereo Pair, One SL x 2, Move, Play:5 Gen2 & Port into Arcam AVR with AE floorstanders, Port into Denon microsystem.

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Slminer

Lyricist I

The latest app upgrade is a disaster. I can’t control any room easily at all. Please fix it right away!

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Wharf_Rat

Lyricist III

I don’t care for the new UI. How are you supposed to switch rooms? I have to load a second room then dump the first one. And, that doesn’t always work.
How do you delete the ply queue?

I realize someone put in a lot of work here but it needs to bake some more.

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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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