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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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1674 replies

jgatie
May 21, 2024

How do I get my music library back?

 

Where is your library housed?  If it is on an NAS, the NAS must have SMB 2 or SMB 3 turned on.  If it is a Mac, there seems to be some issues with a Mac that will be fixed in a coming release.

Enthusiast II
May 21, 2024

*(in relation tot the search function) I mean: to be able to use the serach function to search artists, albums and tracks in our own libraries instead of havind to scroll manually from A to Z through the many items of a collection….

I sold my remaining shares the day the downgrade crap-app rolled out. 

Trending Lyricist I
May 21, 2024

My need is very simple - I just want to be able to ‘add to queue’ from stuff in my Music Library on my Mac as I have been doing for the last 15 years is that too much to ask.

I can find no way too achieve that on my Iphone 12 although I can still do it from my desktop ( for the moment !)

If anyone knows how to do this simple operation in iOS I’d be glaad to know how.

its impossible since that feature does not exist. Its a new bold app started from zero so nothing was there when they started. Now Sonos are adding features back to it, I think I saw June as eta for adding to queue.

Avid Contributor I
May 21, 2024

Can add to my list of issues:

  • Napster music service no longer functional … opening up that service and there is nothing behind the icon, nothing to browse and that service doesn’t show up in the search output … none of my Napster saved songs/playlists/channels work

 

Which ever leader(s) at Sonos push for this release to go out should be fired … and if I was the Product Owner I would quit…

Contributor I
May 21, 2024

How do I get my music library back?

 

Where is your library housed?  If it is on an NAS, the NAS must have SMB 2 or SMB 3 turned on.  If it is a Mac, there seems to be some issues with a Mac that will be fixed in a coming release.



Samba on a NAS. It doesn’t work, I get error 913, which is enormously unhelpful. 

Enthusiast II
May 21, 2024

Can add to my list of issues:

  • Napster music service no longer functional … opening up that service and there is nothing behind the icon, nothing to browse and that service doesn’t show up in the search output … none of my Napster saved songs/playlists/channels work

 

Which ever leader(s) at Sonos push for this release to go out should be fired … and if I was the Product Owner I would quit…

Spence is your guy!  Buck stops at his desk - it was b/c of new products/revenue he promised in earnings calls.  Probably something like this at the go/no-go meeting with dev.  “Customers be damned, full speed ahead, release the crap-app or get fired!  He’s never run this company well!

For the many years and over $10k in Sonos gear (not to mention hour upon hour of investment in time with bugs/issues brought on mostly by Sonos itself),  I was once a promoter of the great hardware for Whole Home Audio.  Now I’m getting flack from friends, family, and associates for ever even mentioning Sonos.

Starting with the S1/S2 screw-up in 2020 and now this crap-app (not to mention the tone-def and arrogant marketing/executive teams), I’m DONE!! 

I expect I’m not alone.  

 

jgatie
May 21, 2024

Another bunny who’s not going to get it.  Sigh.

Contributor I
May 21, 2024

How do I get my music library back?

 

Where is your library housed?  If it is on an NAS, the NAS must have SMB 2 or SMB 3 turned on.  If it is a Mac, there seems to be some issues with a Mac that will be fixed in a coming release.



Samba on a NAS. It doesn’t work, I get error 913, which is enormously unhelpful. 

See the other forum posts on the 913 error it has instructions, you may need to update the advanced settings too to give Sonos the permission . It worked for me… sorry I am having trouble pasting in the link …..

 

Contributor I
May 21, 2024

How do I get my music library back?

 

Where is your library housed?  If it is on an NAS, the NAS must have SMB 2 or SMB 3 turned on.  If it is a Mac, there seems to be some issues with a Mac that will be fixed in a coming release.



Samba on a NAS. It doesn’t work, I get error 913, which is enormously unhelpful. 

See the other forum posts on the 913 error it has instructions, you may need to update the advanced settings too to give Sonos the permission . It worked for me… sorry I am having trouble pasting in the link …..

 

Yeah, they’re useless too. Nobody explains what the problem is. It’s just do these steps on my system worked for me. My NAS isn’t a windows PC or a Mac. 

Lyricist II
May 21, 2024

It’s cool, everybody. Don't worry about your broken stereo system.

 

Just buy $450 headphones!