Sonos introduces New Search

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Hi all,

Last week we started rolling out New Search, a new feature that will make it easier to find content in the Sonos app.

What’s New Search?

We’re introducing a new single search box that searches across all categories (Artists, Songs, Albums, Playlists etc), to improve your overall search experience. This means that you no longer need to select a category to search in ahead of time. Instead, the search results will be broken down by category, and aggregated across all your content services, which you can easily switch between at the top of the search menu.

When performing a search, you will be able to narrow your search results by content service, rather than by category.

To try New Search, tap on “Try the New Search” in the search menu.

New Search will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, with all users receiving the feature by 25th April [edited from 18th April].

This means that not all of you will have access to New Search right away, but you can expect it soon.

Will New Search look through all of my audio sources?

New Search does not currently support searching through personal music libraries, “On this Device” (Android) content, or music services with library functionalities.

Why is my specific music service not being searched?

While the vast majority of content services on Sonos are available in New Search, there are some that are not yet compatible. We’re working with our partners to add more music services to New Search and look forward to rolling these out over time. In the meantime, all music services continue to be compatible with classic search.

I liked the classic search option, can I use that instead?

You can switch between Classic Search and New Search by navigating to the search menu and tapping the buttons labeled “Switch to Classic Search” and “Try the New Search” respectively.

Is Classic Search going away?
No, users will continue to have the option to use classic search .

Please note: We can’t grant you access to New Search prior to it being available to you.

For further information, please see how to switch between New Search and Classic Search.

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Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @sjw

This is an announcement article, which behaves a little differently from a standard topic - that's why you can’t edit your post.

I performed the same search, and got a positive match. This is with YouTube Music and not Apple Music (which I don’t have installed), however.

If I scroll down to the Amazon Music results, I don’t see the song unlike yourself. Nor do I after tapping on Amazon Music to expand it. Though it should be noted that I tried the same search in Classic Search and couldn’t find that track on Amazon that way either - maybe because I only have an Amazon Prime account and not an Unlimited account.

I did find a colleague with Apple Music and he was able to find the track, but as he’s on Alpha software, that doesn’t help you. I will feed this behaviour relating to Apple Music and New Search back to our engineers. Thanks for flagging!

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

SarahN

Local Superstar

Thanks Cory.

it’s not a problem, it was just quirky, weird. I found that if I was quick, I could hit the bar and use new search - which looks great. But its like a Whack- a- mole fairground show - blink and it’s gone.

Today both my iPad have decided not to bother even showing a glimpse of new search, so I shall wait for it to arrive.

No problem!

@Traveller - I just had the quick flash of the new search before it disappeared again. Did it ever come back for good for you, on your app? Or have you still got the old search still?

Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆

Belly M

SaraN - if you are quick you can click on the new search and then it works.

T

Traveller

The iPad I’m using now has got the new search as standard when I open search. Classic search is available as option, just as Cory said. Not sure about m6 other devices, but yes, it works!

Richard

106rallye

Following the update (but I gather as it’s being sent out slowly and not necessarily related to updates) the new search has appeared - and disappeared. If I close the app and restart it, and I’m very quick to hit the new search bar, I can use it, but mostly it just disappears and the classic search appears. I deleted the app, and re-downloaded it, but to no avail.

It’s not a great problem, particularly when Sonos has so much else going on, but has anyone else found this quirk?

also, what has happened to Audible search?

This happens to me py system too…..

106rallye

my system

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Pwyoung

Lyricist I

In Classic Search you used to be able to search by Author and Title for Audible audiobooks, that seems to have disappeared. It also looks like Audible is not searchable with the New Search yet. It is a pain to have to scroll through my hundreds of audiobooks to find the book I have been listening to if I have changed temporarily to another selection. Right now, as far as I can tell, there is no way to search your Audible library from the Sonos app.

T

Traveller

Yes - this has been flagged up here:-

Richard

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amun

New Search will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, with all users receiving the feature by 25th April [edited from 18th April].

This means that not all of you will have access to New Search right away, but you can expect it soon.

You say to ‘all users’, so does this apply to S1 as well as S2 software users? If so, does changing the search to the classic one stick, or is this something that has to be selected each time?

T

Traveller

If mine is typical, then it comes up with the new search option automatically, with a Classic Search option available as one click away. But, I think on checking, that maybe it comes up first with the method last used. So whichever you prefer you can probably stick with.Good to have the choice!

Richard

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