The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

Edited my post as I have found that something I was complaining about is in fact fixed! - the ability to go into a Sonos Favourite Playlist to see what’s in it, then back out again and NOT be taken back to the top of the list of Playlists. 

Not sure when this was sorted but I am delighted.

But I certainly +1 ​@John Guarr’s comment - this is super annoying and has been flagged as an issue for months. I’m not convinced the app has the functionality for this to ever work as you’d imagine it would have been implemented by now...

Open a new thread, explain the issue there. Posting as an add on to a thread that hasn’t been active for three months is unlikely to garner the response you’re looking for. 

Okay, I just tried various ways, like deleting the Sonos app, reinstalling it from the Apple App Store with the most recent IOS app. After selecting my Sunroom playlist from the Recently Played list in the front page of the app, I tested it by playing a song 29 and 30 songs into the playlist. (Of course, before I did that, I had to start playing the first song to import the playlist to the speaker.) In the Now Playing window, if you hit the round Playlist icon in the lower left quadrant of the window, I get taken to the top of my playlist. I just want to make sure we are describing the same thing. Because it sounds to me that yours is working. I hope I explained that clearly. 

That’s precisely what happens for me too. What you are describing is what happens to everyone - and very annoying..!

What I was describing as fixed was one step up from that: when you go to Sonos Favourites → Playlists and then tap a Playlist (say, 15th in your list of Playlists) to see what’s in it, you then press back and you go back to where you were, whereas before it used to return to the top again. 

I think I follow that. I don’t know if I would have noticed this, since I don’t use the Sonos Favorites too often since it overwrites my existing playlist. I’ll play around. My playlists are long. A few years back, I don’t know if it was me, but my playlists started to grow with fragments from other playlists being added to the current or other playlists. I usually do all my editing and adding songs to queue and saving playlists on my Windows machine in my office next to my Play 3. Maybe I was going too fast and adding sections of playlists without knowing it. But in the end, my playlists doubled in size. And since there is no sort command or a way to look for duplicates, I just left them. 

No matter what, I still find the Windows controller app to be the best. it knows each speaker and where you left off, you can add and delete songs and then re-save the playlist so you don’t lose what you edited. It just not practical to keep using ether a laptop or a desktop. When it comes to remembering your place on the playlist, the SonoPad app is great, plus I like the icons and the way it looks. But it has its shortcomings also, like you can’t loop one track and continuously play the same song over and over. I’m trying to work out this piano piece and the loop is helping me. And it also doesn’t edit that well. The Delete button along the bottom deletes the entire playlist. I just thought it was for one track. Why would I want to delete the whole playlist. So anyway, you just can’t win and I have to wait for someone in Sonos to get our feature requests to the right people and then to get them implemented. Moderators, I hope you’re forwarding our concerns up the chain. 

It’s odd; if you’re playing a song 50 songs into your playlist and you pause it in the Now Playing window, the Sonos app remembers where you are, even if you completely exit the app and go back in. You’re back to the song you were playing. It’s only when you hit the Playlist button is when you are taken back to the top and lose your place in the queue. It’s like the Playlist button is a reset button. There is just no way to get around that. 

It is not the app that remembers anything, it’s the system. That’s why you can close is and open it again still seeing the same when returning. The question is why the phone app (as I understand this thread) cannot get this from the speakers.

Thanks. That’s a good point. In addition to what I mentioned above, I also pressed the play button on the speaker, and it knew the last song that was being played in the playlist. So yes, the app is not communicating with the speaker queue. It does work on the SonoPad app, however. 

I just have to mention this being that I just had about 45 minutes of frustration. As part of my daily routine, I wake up my Windows PC and bring up the Sonos Windows Controller app. I noticed that it wasn’t displaying my various rooms and their current playlists. Including the radio station on the Kitchen speaker. I didn’t realize that we had a power failure during the night. Trying to put everything back using the IOS app from my Living Room iPad, was almost impossible. I would open the rooms menu, uncheck and check the various rooms trying to get the playlist back (because you have to start playing a tract from a playlist to get it back into the speaker), and music was coming out from the wrong speaker, and/or the music displayed in the app was from another room and I had to exist the app a number of times to get everything right. I finally gave up and went up to my Windows Controller and had to do it that way. The point I am trying to make is that the IOS app, and I’m sure the other apps, is impossible to try and do anything with. It is not user friendly at all and really needs a complete redesign. I know we are past that and this is not going to happen, but very frustrating trying to put everything back again.