The New Sonos App and Future Feature Updates

Have upgraded to the latest version of the app and still it is failing miserably. The only way I can access songs from my music library is via the PC desktop app. The music library either goes missing from my Android phone app, or when it does appear gives the useful message “something has gone wrong” when trying to find music in the library.

This has been broken for too long now and is totally unacceptable. I don’t care about support for new Sonos products or headphones. I just want an app that will work with my existing products and one that gives me back the full functionality I had prior to the May 2024 app update.

You cannot even sell your old products because no one wants them whilst there is not a fully working, fully functioning app.  

Hey Nick Millington 
This is nice but when are you going to deliver the promised TrueCinema functionality for the Ace? It's now 5 months after the initial promisee delivery date. Or fess up that you're abandoning the idea.

Great, as an Android user, to get my Album Art back!  Not only is it back, but I think the Library probably scrolls quicker than it did under the old app, so good work by the developers. Thanks, guys.

However, things are still not quite there yet.

Where Songs within an Album have different Album Art (so this is another angle on the old compilation albums issue), the Art shown in the Library listing is not the Folder.jpg you would expect it to be.  Neither is it the Art from Track 1 of the album, which would be the logical second option. 

What shows up is the Art from the Song whose Artist’s name comes first in alphabetical order within the Album!

This makes no sense at all, but can probably be sorted out pretty easily in the code.  Any bets on how long it might take?

So just to be sure I understand what remains unresolved:

— creating new playlists and editing existing playlists in the Sonos app

— sluggish volume control

— queue display defaults to start of the queue and not the track currently playing

— app occasionally displays first track played during a listening session and does not advance the display as subsequent tracks in the queue are played.

And as far as I can tell the latest word from Sonos is these will remain unresolved on and after January 1, 2025. Is that an accurate summary of the current status?

Is this a joke or April 1st. App is s***!

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Any news on widgets or lock screen controls for Android? These are basic features that every other media app has, and the Sonos app had for a decade before it was broken.

Sorry for the stupid question but is it possible to download the app update if I don't have my speakers connected?

I think that should be possible but obviously this will not cause the firmware of the speakers to be updated and that is an important part of the latest update.

As of very recently (maybe this version) I’m no longer able to manage the queue in the Sonos app if I’m playing something from Spotify. This is one of the primary ways we used the Sonos app, especially to have multiple people in the household queue up songs.

Is this an intentional change? Or maybe a bug?

I have a large local library on a Synology NAS.  My library of over 100K songs runs over the Sonos limit of 65K.

It would be great to have a random play feature that could play a random playlist from the entire library in limited chunks, such as “Random 50”, “Random 100”, “Random 500” etc.

Any hope for a feature like that?