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The new Sonos Mobile App & Web App

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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.

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 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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Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @minimalist

You can find the web app at http://sonos.com/web-app

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

minimalist

Avid Contributor III

@SilverGrey “My Library” only shows up for certain services (Apple, Amazon and YouTube for me). But since Apple Music is the only service where I have local library I’m guessing this is just “my library” in the cloud for each of these services. So its to local files.

If Sonos has cut out local music streaming of the new app they are going to have a lot of angry customers.

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mmarti

Lyricist I

Just updated on iPhone and lost ability to play the custom radio stations URLs, I am still seeing.

Click on the tiles in my favorites doesn’t connect speaker with the radio station URL. Nothing happens.

Also TuneIN (old) is gone…

Is this expected SONOS ???

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beynym

World-Class Superstar

Hi @minimalist

You can find the web app at http://sonos.com/web-app

I hope this helps.

Where are my playlists? Can't seem to find them in the web app.

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beynym

World-Class Superstar

Hi @minimalist

You can find the web app at http://sonos.com/web-app

I hope this helps.

Where are my playlists? Can't seem to find them in the web app.

Found them. They're in Sonos Favorites.

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only_sleeping

Enthusiast II

Any cosmetic improvements (which are subjective anyway) are massively outweighed by:

Not being able to search locally stored music
The awful system for navigating locally stored music - no alphabet at the side of the screen means swiping through albums, slowly, as they load, somehow more slowly than they did before.
Not being able to add songs to the queue. An absolute basic feature of a music playing app.

Another Sonos disaster, and not worse than the time their update literally stopped the Port playing music, but close enough.

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chavster01

Lyricist III

The web app needs a light mode, can’t seem to see where this is in the settings

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chavster01

Lyricist III

Also the side panel (on default view) duplicates almost exactly the functionality of the panel at the bottom.

When you press on the queue button it doesn’t scroll to the currently playing track (the app does this). It’s also painfully slow and scrolls down about 10 tracks a time, nice when your playlist is c. 500 items.

I get this is new but in 5 mins or less of using this there shouldn’t be such basic UX flaws which testing would pick up.

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chavster01

Lyricist III

It also doesn’t appear to be possible in the web app to remove items from the queue or drag and drop them to reorder.

Was this even tested?

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7o2

Contributor I

For anyone missing the sleep timer, the Mac Sonos Controller still works.

I just tried a 15 min timer and it worked ok

The new web app doesn’t seem to have it though.

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