The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

All of those devices predate the addition of the Bluetooth hardware antenna. You could add a Roam 2 and group them to get access to Bluetooth from your mobile device. 

Thanks for your response. It’s a shame that I have to do a work-around to solve my SONOS issues. Can you think of any other alternatives?

Not without an additional purchase, no. You could potentially get an adapter that connects to your Android device that changes the headphone output to optical, and feed that to your PLAYBASE, but I wouldn’t be wild about adding a dice to a variable output (the headphone jack) to a line level input (on the PLAYBASE.

Unfortunately, your Sonos devices are, to use the term, ancient. Things have changed a lot since they were originally designed and manufactured, from changes made by Google to the Android OS to changes made by Sonos by adding Bluetooth. Technology changes. 

That’s kind of what I’ve been doing is grouping my Playbar with my x4 Sonos:3s and Sub, then running an HDMI cable to my television. Then I can play whatever from my computer. But it’s another work around. I just want to play tunes over OTA rather than sacrifice an HDMI port on my computer.

Since SONOS is allegedly re-engineering their software, perhaps it would be a good time to add the feature I described to their backlog.

They’d need to add electronic parts to the hardware already in your speakers, it wouldn’t be a simple software update. 

I suspect the chances of that are zero. As I suggested before, purchasing the cheapest speaker Sonos make these days would be a great solution for you. 

Your wonderful new app has just been delighted to reveal a new feature to me - inability to play music if there is no internet, even from a home library

My internet was having issues this morning so I wasn't able to listen to streaming music, but no matter, I have a large home library connected via NAS. However, on opening the new app it wasn’t able to detect any of the players on my system. How is it possible that you have added a need to have internet connectivity in order to be able to recognise players on a wifi system? What on earth is that external connection needed for?

And no, the players, wifi and music library worked fine; I could do everything I wanted by resorting to the old faithful SonoPhone app.

And now that internet has been restored the app recognises all my players again. This feels like another error that Sonos has built into the system. Is there a plan to fix this or have I missed something entirely

Thanks

That bad, huh?  From email: “For 20 years, we've brought you immersive sound through Sonos.com. Celebrate this milestone with us and enjoy 25% off—our way of saying thank you...” I’m getting rid of everything -- the SONOS Roam 2 offered no help in repairing my setup. Massive fail.  

I want it just to work correctly.  When starting a new play list or controlling a different set of speakers, I consistently have to press “play” 2 or 3 times to get music to play.  It will start and then stop requiring a second and sometimes third press of play.  Once it has started, if I pause it and then restart this does not happen. 

When I am using airplay and want to add a non airplay speaker to the group (“group non-airplay speakers” is enabled) it will never work.  I have to have the speakers grouped before I start airplay.

Does anyone else have the issue that SONOS radio favorites and trending will occasionally reappear after app updates? 

Overall the app is finally back to where it use to be in terms of speed and responsiveness (other than the need to press play multiple times)

I was just in another group, which the Moderators closed yesterday. But I read that there were both firmware and updates to the IOS app. Did both, the I’m playing a song about 50 songs down and when I hit the playlist button it STILL takes you right back to the top of the playlist. Is this ever going to get fixed?  This is the only reason why I keep using the SonoPad app. I would prefer to use the Sonos app, but get very annoyed and frustrated after scrolling to find a song, play it and want to check for the next song, but I can’t since I always wind up at the top of the playlist. Does Sonos even know about this problem?