Our New Quality and Customer Experience Commitments

Thanks Ken. 

This responder said she would help me with finding the setting my router then managed to avoid it. To be honest I was losing will to live speaking to her anyway. I will find it if it is there.

Where do I go now with Sonos Support do you think?  Spend another 90 minutes waiting to get through to someone else who can more senisbly assist?

Well I’m happy to carry on and try to help as much as I can here - I’d first just try to enable IGMP snooping in your router configuration pages, as it’s certainly needed for mDNS/SSDP multicast discovery and that’s always sounded like it was a part of the issues you were seeing. Then when that’s done reboot the router and Sonos devices.

I would not uncable your Sonos device at the moment, as it’s not clear (to me, at least) at this point if you have the network SSID/credentials stored in your Sonos App network settings.

Hi all,

We’ve been sharing app updates with you all over the last several months, and today we wanted to share commitments that we are announcing following our internal review of the app release in May of this year. In addition to all we have been doing to get you back to enjoying your Sonos products, these commitments will drive us to emerge from this with an even stronger commitment to quality. You can read highlights of the commitments below, and read more here: www.sonos.com/commitments.

To address the root causes of the problems of the app release, we commit to:

• Unwavering focus on the customer experience. To deliver the highest level of customer experience, we will always establish ambitious quality benchmarks at the start of product development. We will not launch products until they meet these criteria. We will also enhance the tools needed to measure and maintain the standards our customers expect.
• Increase the stringency of our pre-launch testing phases. Our beta testing program will include a broader range of customers and more diverse setups, helping us diagnose and resolve issues faster before going to market.
• Demonstrate humility when introducing changes. In contrast to the all-at-once automated app release we issued in May, any major change to the Sonos app will be released gradually, allowing customers to adjust and provide feedback before it becomes the default. For new features smaller in scope, we will introduce an opt-in experimental features option in the app for customers who would like to participate in testing them.
• Appoint a Quality Ombudsperson. This new role will ensure our employees have a clear path to escalate any concerns in terms of quality and customer experience. This person will be consulted by executive leadership throughout the development process and before any product launches. In this role, the ombudsperson will guarantee transparency and publish a report to management and employees twice per year, and will present regularly to the Sonos board of directors. 
   

In addition, we are also committing to the following to begin to regain your trust: 

• Extend our home speaker warranties. To reflect our strong belief in the quality of our products, we will extend the manufacturer’s warranty by an additional year for all home theater and plug-in speaker products currently under warranty.
• Relentlessly improve the app experience with regular software upgrades. We will continue to roll out updated mobile software versions every 2-4 weeks to optimize and enhance the app experience, even after the current issues are fully resolved.
• Establish a Customer Advisory Board. We will form a Customer Advisory Board to ensure we never lose sight of our customers' voices. This board will provide feedback and insights from a customer perspective to help shape and improve our software and products before they are launched.

As a demonstration of the significance of these commitments, the Sonos Executive Leadership Team will not accept any annual bonus payout for the October 2024 - September 2025 fiscal year unless the company succeeds in improving the quality of the app experience and rebuilding customer trust.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them below. Thanks for all of your support and patience the last several months - we’re excited to move forward and get you back to enjoying the quality that Sonos is known for.

Your Sonos team.

​@Keith N  is there an update to any of this? I am in the Sonos community here, and Sonos user groups on social media. It seems like the problems persist for a host of users. Did the executives at Sonos ultimately feel they deserved their bonuses? I did not get my music library back until the end of November (with over a dozen hours on the phone and online with support), and it’s still incredibly glitchy.  Still cannot make playlists, still no album artwork, still laggy controls. 

I am simply looking to use my system the way it was advertised when I purchased everything. So far, Sonos is still missing the mark by a long shot. Like many users, I still do not have the functionality that I did prior to the May update.

You didn’t answer the question - Why would they need a cloud based system to collect your data, when they’ve been collecting your data since day 1? 

And the FTC prevents Sonos from changing their privacy policy:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/protecting-consumer-privacy-security/privacy-security-enforcement