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Marco.B
Retired Sonos Staff
April 23, 2024
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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable Home screen.

 

Home Screen

The new Home screen provides faster access to Sonos system controls with one easy swipe up, making tab to tab jumping a thing of the past. As a leader in sound experience that’s focused on creating a better way to listen, Sonos intentionally redesigned the app on a modern software platform for an easier, faster and better experience that can support more rapid innovation.

 

The reimagined app supports all existing S2 products and will be available globally through a software update for the S2 mobile app.

 

100+ streaming services, one Home screen

The redesigned Sonos app prioritizes a listening experience that’s human - allowing you to bring your true favorites front and center and giving you more control to make your streaming experience your own.

 

  • Get into your music (and off the app) faster: No need to tap between tabs — the new Home screen serves up all your favorite content and controls, all in one place. Quickly jump back into your recently played, browse libraries and recommendations from your preferred services, and fill your home with music and all the sounds you love.
  • Customize and curate: Enjoy unparalleled curation by designing your Home screen to reflect how you listen. Pin rows of your favorite content and services; then move, edit, or rearrange them to your liking.
  • Search every streaming library: Look for an artist, song, podcast, or audiobook across all your preferred streaming apps at once via an easy-to-use search bar that’s always available right on your Home screen.
  • Elevated system control: Swipe up from the bottom of your Home screen to seamlessly control your entire system and access a visual overview of what’s playing on each of your products, quickly group speakers, and dial in on the perfect volume from anywhere in the app. 

 

Accessible from any modern web browser, a brand new web app allows listeners the same seamless system control as the mobile app.

 

The new Web App

The Web App will be available alongside the redesigned mobile app on May 7, 2024.

 

Want to find out more about the new Sonos App? Have a look at the Info Hub section of the community for a complete rundown of the new user interface.

 

Here you can find the full press release. 

 

 

 

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    beynym
    World-Class Superstar
    April 28, 2024

    Maybe the new App should be called S3 allowing us "minority" local users the chance to still search our local libraries stopping further damage at S2?

    We're still not sure if the new app prohibits us from searching our local music libraries. I've asked @Corry P to elaborate on this (see earlier in this thread) but haven't heard back from him. Maybe he'll respond after the weekend.

    ninjabob
    Chromatic Producer I
    April 28, 2024

    Maybe the new App should be called S3 allowing us "minority" local users the chance to still search our local libraries stopping further damage at S2?

    We're still not sure if the new app prohibits us from searching our local music libraries. I've asked @Corry P to elaborate on this (see earlier in this thread) but haven't heard back from him. Maybe he'll respond after the weekend.

    Maybe! What about the inability to add shares to the local library other than through the desktop controller. Sonos have reduced functionality of the Desktop Controller over the years.

    Can someone remind me how to successfully block Auto Updates as I have lost that info - I seem to remember it was something to do with blocking update.sonod.com on my routers settings?

     

    I would like to block this upgrade until it is clear what effect this is going to have on local library users.

     

     

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    RJSUK
    Enthusiast II
    April 28, 2024

    This pop up just appeared in the app. It's very kind of Sonos, removing access to my local library in order to protect my security and privacy. Why don't they just admit that the people who bought into Sonos' original ethos of being able to access and play your own music are no longer needed. Bizarrely, it includes a How to add a local library link.

      sjw
      Local Superstar
      April 28, 2024

      Maybe the new App should be called S3 allowing us "minority" local users the chance to still search our local libraries stopping further damage at S2?

      We're still not sure if the new app prohibits us from searching our local music libraries. I've asked @Corry P to elaborate on this (see earlier in this thread) but haven't heard back from him. Maybe he'll respond after the weekend.

      That have confirmed it in this thread.

      So the music is all there and indexed and you can play it and navigate it but the contents are deliberately not shown in a search.

      Kumar
      April 28, 2024

      @Corry P : Comments? How does this reconcile with what you have been saying here so far about search going missing only for a while? Does this apply to S1 as well?

      beynym
      World-Class Superstar
      April 28, 2024

      Maybe the new App should be called S3 allowing us "minority" local users the chance to still search our local libraries stopping further damage at S2?

      We're still not sure if the new app prohibits us from searching our local music libraries. I've asked @Corry P to elaborate on this (see earlier in this thread) but haven't heard back from him. Maybe he'll respond after the weekend.

      That have confirmed it in this thread.

      So the music is all there and indexed and you can play it and navigate it but the contents are deliberately not shown in a search.

      Thanks for the link. @Marco.B however doesn't say if he's referring tot the new app or to the Windows Desktop Controller. If there will be no more searching my local library in the WDC after the 7 May update, I'm in trouble.

      Marco.BAuthor
      Retired Sonos Staff
      April 30, 2024

         

      @Corry P Will the personal music library (on my NAS) still be searchable  with the Windows Desktop Controller once the new app has been released? TIA.

       

      Maybe the new App should be called S3 allowing us "minority" local users the chance to still search our local libraries stopping further damage at S2?

      We're still not sure if the new app prohibits us from searching our local music libraries. I've asked @Corry P to elaborate on this (see earlier in this thread) but haven't heard back from him. Maybe he'll respond after the weekend.

      That have confirmed it in this thread.

      So the music is all there and indexed and you can play it and navigate it but the contents are deliberately not shown in a search.

      Thanks for the link. @Marco.B however doesn't say if he's referring tot the new app or to the Windows Desktop Controller. If there will be no more searching my local library in the WDC after the 7 May update, I'm in trouble.

       

      The desktop controller will continue to work with the core playback controls. Searching your local library shares is part of this and continues to work.

      But since the controller won't be updated anymore and the Sonos environment will evolve over time (music service APIs, player firmware, etc.), we cannot guarantee this will work indefinetely.

      Bumper
      Bumper
      April 30, 2024

      @Marco.B  A Sonos rep replying on social media says the desktop controller will only work until the end of the year. 

      What’s the plan for search after? 

       

      Have you fixed the smbv2 index bug? 

       

      Marco.BAuthor
      Retired Sonos Staff
      April 30, 2024

      @Marco.B  A Sonos rep replying on social media says the desktop controller will only work until the end of the year. 

      What’s the plan for search after? 

       

      Have you fixed the smbv2 index bug? 

       

      At the moment we do not have a date when the desktop controller will be discontinued. This will not happen until the mobile app is capable of setting up shares. I think the Sonos rep meant that the sunset of the desktop controller will happen until end of the year at the latest.

       

      I'm not familiar with such a bug. Could you give me more information on this?

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