Soldato
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Holy cow, that new Sonos app is awful!
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Caporegime
Yeah it's hot garbage.
Caporegime
Probably the reason that the primary connection is Bluetooth, can just use an off the shelf solution that is mature rather than a janky Sonos wifi solution.
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I've just had the same experience trying to use it to play some music from a playlist on YouTube Music.
Only option I found is to just airplay to my one new generation play one. Which means I can only use one of my speakers. Utterly dreadful service from this company again. It took them years to get a semi useful app and now this. Hardware great software terrible. As time passes to replace my original play ones I will find another speaker system to use.
+1. Repeated issues with not being able to see my speakers, not linking speakers, linking the wrong way, and not being able to unlink speakers. I had no issues with the old app.
Soldato
Anyone have the outdoor speakers? Looking at getting a pair for a revamp of our backyard.
After some quick reading, it seems they need the amp to connect to the existing system. I can wire them in by looping form the existing lights out there, that’s ok. Not sure where I would put the amp though? Would rather it was hidden but not sure how I would do that.
If they do need the amp to connect to the system then could you not just get a non Sonos branded pair with a Sonos amp?
After some quick reading, it seems they need the amp to connect to the existing system. I can wire them in by looping form the existing lights out there, that’s ok. Not sure where I would put the amp though? Would rather it was hidden but not sure how I would do that.
If they do need the amp to connect to the system then could you not just get a non Sonos branded pair with a Sonos amp?
Caporegime
The outdoor speakers are just standard passive speakers, they don't need power. You could use any brand in their place (even the Sonos ones aren't made by Sonos, but Sonance).
The Sonos Amp will need power and can't be kept outdoors, so you need long cable runs to the speakers.
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Soldato
So a Sonos amp indoors, hard wired to both speakers. Eying up the Bose 251. Then I suppose the amp would then be a new “room” in my Sonos system?
Soldato
Apparently it took ‘courage’ from Sonos to upgrade the app, which is awful management speak for we can’t bring ourselves to apologise for this borked release that clearly isn’t ready for public beta oh and we would like to force you to use the system a specific way so umm sorry about those missing features lol
Caporegime
Yeah all my speakers drop out regularly. Can't play any radio stations most of the time.
Soldato
Since the app update destroyed the ability to listen to my radio stations and music library I've barely listened to anything. I've only got a Beam 2, Roam and Play One so not as bad as others with more extensive setups.
Soldato
My biggest bug today not being able to stop music without closing and re-opening the app!
Soldato
Just sounds to me like you lack courage......
Luckily with this debacle, so far I have got away fairly scot free as the Beam 2 and two One SLs as surrounds are really only used for TV source usage but I'm confident that they will be brave enough to eventually break this as well
I'm not sure whether it's related - to be honest I've always rarely used the app rather than just playing directly from Spotify. But I'm sure that when playing to a SONOS speaker via Spotify on my phone, using the phone volume controls would manage the speaker volume. That doesn't seem to be the case any more, so I do have to use the SONOS app to change volume.
Soldato
I think they have broken that as well as I'm sure it previously worked on my phone that way and doesn't now!