Update on the Sonos App from Patrick Spence

It seems Sonos are not going to change course here @Toolio. They’ve accepted and apologised for the development delays as they ran into some unexpected issues, it seems. I’m happy to wait patiently, but it’s each to their own.

I can still use the new App with few issues and I have lots of other methods to play music/audio in general to my Sonos speakers anyway including AirPlay, direct control, voice services, line-in/TV audio etc. plus a good many more options besides. So I am just going to wait it out until things are sorted.

Anyone eagerly awaiting wall-to-wall losses and resignations following today’s quarterly earnings report are likely to be a little disappointed:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/sonos-q3-earnings-preview-stock-1033645218

I have got mine to work with the new android app. Its counter intuitive though. Tried all recommended solutions on WiFi but couldn't even see the devices or set up a new system. Decided to make up 2 network cables and connected my Play 1's to the network using them. Everything worked as normal but here's the strange thing, I disabled WiFi and had the same issue as before. It seems that the devices need to be hard wired but with WiFi enabled.

Don’t believe your lying eyes people!  This product is in fantastic shape and a Sonos cloud service outage taking out the ability to use the speakers in your home, connected to music services you pay for, but only on the new app, isn’t really an issue.

Nothing to see here.  Please buy their stock.

I can’t stand not being able to listen to my music. My playlists are sitting there in “recently played” (ha I wish)…. and yet “something is wrong… try again”.

Oh yes something is very wrong.

We don’t need newer, “better”

The whole point of Sonos is to play music and if it doesn’t do that simple thing, then it’s useless. There aren’t many things I would moan about not having access to. Not much you can’t really live without for while. But music is not one of those things I want to live without.

Please consider allowing us to download the last version which worked while you undo the angst you’ve caused.

I’m going to Pop some popcorn and tune in.

https://investors.sonos.com/news-and-events/events-and-presentations/events/event-details/2024/Sonos-Third-Quarter-and-Fiscal-2024-Earnings-Conference-Call/default.aspx

I think I found a workaround for rebuilding my playlists.  As you know, many of us had compilations blow up so (I am working this on a Windows machine) opened the music library and selected “Folders”.  I picked my link to my music (NAS) , then Music.  All my music is there and the compilations are intact.  So I deleted old playlists, built a new one and selected music from the NAS path.  Seems to work fine.

Sorry. No can do that earnings call. It conflicts with today’s Yankees doubleheader. Besides, I’ve never traded Sonos stock before and there’ll be a blizzard in the Seventh Circle of Hell before I’d do it knowing what I know about corporate management now.

So where are all the positive responses to having the ability to downgrade from S2 to S1, with so many thousands of requests for this specific functionality?

Probably enjoying their systems and no longer wallowing in bugs and missing features.