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Grouped speakers keep disappearing every day recently

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So I have a TV room as my main room with an Arc soundbar and a Left/Right set of speakers. For music to play across the whole home in Spotify, I have 5 other rooms added in on the app. I’ve had this setup for years working fine. But just recently the grouped in rooms keep disappearing one or more times a day. I’ll have “TV Room + 5” showing in Spotify (the 5 extra amps driving other rooms). Then awhile later all 5 have been unchecked in the app and Spotify only shows “TV Room”. Really annoying that my other rooms keep dropping out.

Also, I have it setup with an Xbox to pickup the sound input from the Xbox vs the music system and for years that’s worked no problem. About the same time every once in awhile, one or more times a day all of a sudden the sound just stops playing when watching tv on the Xbox and when I look at the app, its back to playing from a music source.

Are these some of the bugs in the new app and are they going to be addressed?

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ILauderAnswer

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I’ve got thousands of dollars in Sonos equipment. I expect them to get their * together.

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Sonos is making a major effort to reduce the bug count and add missing features in the new app. There is a lot of discussion on this around here as well as the Update note at the top of the forum home page.

You can track progress here:

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/release-notes-for-sonos-software-updates

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ILauderAuthor

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I do have the current 80.06.03 IOS app.

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Timclark65

Lyricist I

I have the same problem which has annoyed me ever since I purchased the system. The only answer is to get another system. It’s a Sonos problem

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ILauderAuthorAnswer

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I’ve got thousands of dollars in Sonos equipment. I expect them to get their * together.

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Timclark65

Lyricist I

I have had this issue ever since I purchased it 10 months ago I am so sick of it constantly loosing speaker connection etc on the phone fixing it and now the new app is soo broken and SL speaker and Sub not working 🤬🤬🤬

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Qazer

Contributor I

And son on , and on , and on .......Its just a disaster !!!

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ILauderAuthor

Avid Contributor II

Well the latest Sonos app update on Aug 27 didn’t help any.

It is still randomly dropping off rooms from my group. I have to open the Sonos App, go into the current group and turn back on the main room. If it was just one of the 5 other rooms in the house that keeps dropping off would be workable but its always the living room that drops off the group and that’s my office. Its a PITA to keep having to fix the group in the app to get the music playing again.

I haven’t tested the Xbox watching tv yet, but I had to finally turn off my Sonos Arc because watching TV wasn’t possible anymore with how often the Sonos Arc would cut out. I would have to keep pausing what we were watching, open the app, toggle the TV AutoPlay on/off to get the sound to start again, then it was so bad a few times I had to reboot the Xbox to get it playing sound again. 5 times just watching an hour long show. I gave up using Sonos and started using the built in tv speaker…..

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

It is often the statement of ridicule, but have you tried turning your whole system off including the router and turning all the speakers on again, one at a time starting with the router, to see if that makes a difference? I appreciate it has worked great for you for years, but as it’s been a few weeks now since you first posted, is it worth trying this, just in case it sorts things out?

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ILauderAuthor

Avid Contributor II

Good point, I haven’t powered down all the amps and restarted them. The router and Arc has been rebooted a few times. I have tried shutting down the sonos app on my phone and running it on the PC that spotify is running on, same behavior.

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

It might make no difference, but I have needed to restart my Arc twice for a couple of reasons and it sorted my issues straight away. After all these app updates and firmware updates, it might just all need to ‘start again’ on your system. (Maybe also log out of the apps and shut them down again before you boot everything back up, then log back in once all hardware is rebooted.)

Good luck with getting a good result!

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