‘On this Device’ for Android controller no longer supported

@anyotherbizniz You might say Sonos was a bit fast to pull the plug on this feature before it really would become a problem for users. I can understand this from their position though. Having some Android versions still allowing this while others would not could lead to many costly helpdesk calls - bringing no solution to most callers.

You seem knowledgeable about how Sonos and Android work form a software point of view, stating the problem is soluble and that Sonos could make this work. If Sonos really missed a solution maybe you could give them some pointers?

Sure. When SONOS advises me how to solve my work problems.

This is unbelievable.

They release this like this is normal.

This sucks.

You spend large amounts of money to purchase their equipment, and they get up and change it.  Sorry you cant use your equipment any more.  Sucks to be you.

This should be a class action lawsuit.

Every single person who owns a Sonos should be paid for the vast amount of hours they spent trying to get the Sonos to work.

They should have been forced to send this notice to every Sonos owner and given them the option for a full refund.

Horrible company.

Based upon what inside info do you state this?

I was talking about the way Sonos works.

benym - you appear to be either a troll or a SONOS chatbot, as it seems are the other 'users' who instantly respond to every criticism of SONOS by either blaming someone else or fatuously saying "go on tell us the technical solution then." Not really worth engaging with.

The idea that it is not possible to resolve this relatively straightforward technical and legal issue is palpable nonsense. Tech companies are everyday solving much much more complex ones. It is a lack of will on the part of  SONOS, plain and simple. And it is the suckers who bought your product precisely because it did something that it no longer does who are paying the price for SONOS's flagrant disregard for its customers.

I don’t know all of the details here, but with Apple there will be a demand for developers to change an App or the App will be dropped from the App store. In many cases the “new improved” will not work on older phone/pads. The App developer has hard choices. Abandon some users of older phone/pads or abandon their App. In some cases it might be possible for the developer to remove the feature requiring the incompatible new API.

Nobody stated that. You on the other hand stated the opposite. Hence my reaction.

I understand your anger, but you'd do better to stick to the facts. And you just can't know anything about what Sonos wants to do or can do.

The fact that so many people only found out about the sudden removal of the functionality and having to search on the Internet to find out what is happening shows Sonos has some work to do in their communications department.

It's also one of the reasons i have auto updates off in every app possible. I can still use the - On this Device- function but i assume i will be forced to update soon. 

@SleepyRobot That is of course your choice. Just remember some updates are for security reasons. Also the Sonos app and the updates on your system are related - you need to also stop updates to the app. As far as I know there are no forced updates on Sonos.

@anyotherbizniz Of course this is an unwelcome surprise and it would have been nice if Sonos had announced the end of this feature with a pop up on the app for example. As I said, Sonos might also be a little early stopping the feature.

But you stating things as facts an reneging when called out on your statements, calling people that might disagree with you names is just childish.

As with the same point on Apple devices in 2019: this will not go away. You need to take action if you want to keep playing your music. The choices are mentioned above.