T2boogie's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 2:35 PMI bought a couple of Sonos speakers in Jan 2018; I’d heard great reviews about the technology and was finally ready to commit. Since then, I’ve regretted that decision. The speakers provide quality sound, but the app is always problematic. So much so that I’ve had multiple tech support calls (their technicians were cool). But the point is that instead of updates improving the app, things tend to get worse (for me)... a lost of functionality, new bugs, etc. I can’t complain about the sound, just the app. I’m tired of listening to a song and right when it’s my favorite line, having it cut off midway.
Mrdrig's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 2:29 AMThere is a lot I love about the Sonos system, however there are two things things that are very frustrating and inexcusable. The first is that songs regularly skip while playing on Amazon music. The second is that songs will consistently end prematurely while playing off of my iPhone X. Please fix ASAP. It’s been going on for far too long.
Dtaugher's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 2:17 AMModern perfection. Great design - fantastic system. Highly recommended. Not much more to say.
Livforever's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 2:12 AMI don’t know what happened with the second to last update. I used to be able to turn on my apple tv and it would play immediately through Sonos Play Base. Now unless I click into my phone app for Sonos the option for the audio output for apple TV doesn’t even show up. Once I do then I manually have to go into the apple tv settings to manually select the sonos speakers for audio. Why why? Is there a way to go back to the tent version? So sad.
tiredof grow withour quality's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 2:07 AMA few years ago I committed my whole house system to Sonos. After the last 2 upgrades I wish I was back on my old cds. It’s a clumsey, user u friendly system. I think they are throwing out upgrades with minimal beta testing. I am mad and trapped
cntryfaninjersey's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 12:26 AMSonos has had this problem for a while, and it still isn’t fixed. If you want to listen to a playlist or any music on your iPhone on your Sonos system, Sonos will suddenly stop playing in the middle of a song, and maybe if will skip ahead several songs before resuming play. At first Sonos tried to blame it on WiFi, but that was a mistake because everyone who reported the issue had perfectly functional WiFi. It turns out that the problem happens when your phone screen locks. (This used to not be a problem.) Once your screen locks because you aren’t using your phone, Sonos stops playing or skips songs. The “workaround” is to change your settings so your screen never locks. Not a good option for your battery, but that’s what Sonos suggests. One would think they would have fixed this problem with the update, but that’s not the case.
Eagle10hj's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 12:22 AMApp goes into search for sonos update and stays there no update anyone else is having problems ?
PreOwn3d's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/5/18 12:04 AMThis was easily a 5 star system. Then to get ready for Airplay 2, they neutered my current system functionality. In response, I neuter this app rating.
Albert Val's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 4:50 PMI love Sonos and I use my speakers everyday. I’ve had these for almost 10 months now and still no Alexa support available in Mexico. I speak fluent English and wouldn’t mind the fact that Spanish wouldn’t be available but waiting on the “Smart” part of the speaker to be fully available is concerning.
Dannnnnnnnnnnnn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 3:07 AMI bought 5 of these a year ago and have had constant problems ever since, especially trying to play music from a source other than Spotify (eg music on a phone), which typically plays only the first 30-60 seconds before skipping to the next song. The sound quality is great but the software is glitchy and poor.
Avemaria1a's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 2:57 PMI used this during the day for work. LOVE IT.
1000kevin's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 1:50 AMUnfortunately I’ve experienced several problems with Sonos especially with connectivity and the bridge that it was originally installed with. I’m not real tech savvy but enjoy Sonos when it works but find it dropping songs quite often and tech-support hours aren’t up to speed with the modern world where it’s 24 seven so it’s tough to get a hold of tech-support when I need it and I don’t understand the system well enough to diagnose the problems myself.
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee10's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 1:25 PMI’ve found that the music periodically starts and stops. I’m not technically savvy enough to figure it out, so we live with it. Disappointing.
The super big Kahuna's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 1:20 AMWow what a great idea but horrible execution You'll spend more time connecting and reconnecting your Sonos speakers than listening to music If they would stop trying a music service company And just be speakers it would work a lot better DO NOT BUY THESE SPEAKERS
wishtofix's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/4/18 11:21 PMWent three years with no issue but in last 2 -3 months my Sonos Amp and speakers dropping connection every 10-15 min.
Social Media Woman's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 8:06 AMAnything you can think of, it’s here in podcasts and music.
Suzanne0307's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 3:40 PMUsed to be cutting edge! Now it doesn't work! Wish it would go back to when it worked!
Dontinelle's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 2:31 PMSometimes the app doesn’t recognize my internet connection and I have to wait long periods of time for it to either turn on...or if it’s already playing then I have to wait for the controls to come up so I can turn it off or change songs or volume. Most annoying is that I’m constantly having to re set up one or both of the speakers as though it’s a new system. I miss how old analogue stereos just worked when you plugged them in and hit a button. No fuss no muss.
clanzedric's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 2:29 PMWe have always wanted a sound system that performs double duty. This system serves as the tv sound and as a radio for my app on my iPhone!
m16p22's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 2:19 PMWe like Sonos very much. It is sometimes glitchy and stops a song in the middle and starts a new song. We don’t know how to fix this. It tends to only do it on 1 zone. But otherwise it is great to have.
aaflygirl10's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 2:05 PMThe app is wonderful, except when the music stops during mid song and it jumps to the next song repeatedly.
michsonosfan's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 1:54 PMLoved my Sonos system for over a year and now with the recent update, it quits playing after 1-2 songs from my iPhone8. Super frustrating and makes the system nearly useless. Since it has to be controlled with their app, you are stuck. Spent hours with tech support and they could not resolve. Love the quality and sound and flexibility, now I just want it to play music.
FunWithLogos's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 1:22 AMWhen an update is available, the app will not recognize the TV, UNLESS you run the update. Running the update resets everything and you have to reset and setup EVERYTHING like it is a brand new setup... this is horribly annoying!!!!!
CHM13's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 1:18 AMDon’t even think about using your iPhone to to anything else if you are streaming music to your Sonos speakers. Even if you leave the Sonos app open there are frequent interruptions. Music stops or randomly skips to the next track part way through a song. Sonos, just make all your speakers AirPlay compatible and get rid of this awful app.
Riverbottom nightmare band's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 11:58 PMevery time i download a podcast for an ‘on this phone’ playback on sonos the podcast cuts out a few minutes in or tries to skip to another episode. it’s maddening!
gab pam's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/3/18 11:13 PMi love sonos and think the sound system is phenomenal but the navigation on the app is just awful. it’s difficult for me to find anything i want on the soundcloud plug in: such as an option to go to my own soundcloud profile or simply search. i think the apple music plug in is difficult too and doesn’t allow for as much mobility as i would like in this app.
arcade glass's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 9:45 PMI am well within range, however every 3-5 minutes it will change my podcast to a different episode, with a little error saying it can’t connect to my phone because it’s not in range of the WiFi. What?!
Macobb's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 8:35 PMThe app was a solid 4 stars but the new version is such a huge step backwards. You can’t control Sonos via the lock screen anymore. You might as well use Google Chromecast. That too has cons but info need to go into the Sonos app every time I want to change volume, a song, etc. I’d rather use chrome cast and save $350 by not buying a connect. It’s had a significant negative impact on my enjoyment of using Sonos.
Justin Hunnicutt's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 7:02 PMIt’s fantastic when it works, but about 20% of the time it goes on a run where it cuts out in the middle of a song and either jumps to the next or shows it’s s playing, but no sound is coming out of the speakers. Proximity to our router seems to be irrelevant.
jenipizza's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 4:07 PMThe app takes forever to load and resets. Very annoying and seems to be very finicky. Also, can’t control from my lock screen.
NickRider's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 2:49 AMThis app is incredibly glitchy and unstable. It will just randomly not find my music, skip songs in a playlist and stop playback on a podcast (both when the podcast is downloaded to the phone or just streaming from stitcher)… but wait, there’s more! It also randomly loses/unpairs speakers when they haven’t been unplugged/moved, often has trouble connecting to my music/etc... services, lags on playback, and the new feature of playback directly from the phone via Airplay is nowhere to be found. When you pay this amount of many for speakers that must be controlled by an app, the app better be solid. This one isn’t. *********9/1/18********* Update! The website the developer suggests for hints on how to get around their sub-par app design is “disabled for the time being.” Here’s a recommendation, guys: Don’t make me work to figure out how to make your app function the way it should… Make a better app.
CliffSpencer's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 12:44 PMThis system seems to get worse every year. It is not uncommon to have speakers drop out midway through a song. Today I fired up the system in my bedroom, the bedroom was now unknown to the player. After adding those speakers back in the system froze 5 minutes later, the app eventually crashed and when I restarted the bedroom was again unknown. When I bought Sonos (about 9 years ago) it was known as the system that ‘just worked’. Those days are long gone. I have spent way too much time with Sonos support (very nice folk) changing network parameters - blah blah blah. I am sick and tired of turning on my system and having to spend 15 minutes getting it back on the air. Perhaps it all started when Sonos switched to standard WIFI instead of their bridge, I don’t know. I’m almost at the end of my rope here.
C'mon - really?'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/2/18 12:04 AMWhy is it doing this?
KK bey's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 6:28 PMI try to play music and it says I have to update even though I already did update so I can’t play music
Velolion57's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 4:59 PMI’ve been a Sonos user since very early on. I have two Play:1 speakers that I use as a stereo pair. I was very disappointed when the v9.0 update, which apparently enabled Air Play on the One (plus other current models), disabled the home screen controls for those of us using the legacy speakers. I’ve also experienced the same as others where the last ~20 seconds of each track would be cut off when I was playing from a locked iOS device. I keep nearly all my audio on my iPhone & iPad and generally play straight from those devices’ libraries instead of from my Mac, as the latter spends most of its time in sleep mode. Surprisingly I just accidentally got the lock screen controls re-enabled and the end-of-track cutoff seems to have gone away. For some reason one of my speakers dropped off the system and I couldn’t get it to reconnect, so I did a full-on controller reset on my iPhone. I also unplugged both speakers and then basically set my system back up, as if it was new. No idea why, but like I said this has caused the end-of-track dropout to go away and my lock screen controls to come back (even though Sonos says explicitly in their release notes that this function has gone away for those without Air Play compatible speakers). Very weird, but now my system’s back to how I’ve used and loved it for the past 6-7 years and it’s great! Hopefully some others might try this and have some luck getting full functionality back.
mikeATLCO's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 4:11 PMSound is great for its size but it needs Bluetooth connectivity also and the app can’t see many of my iTunes songs for some reason.
Paris Frillman's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 3:38 AMCrashes repeatedly. Running current version. Very frustrating.
JC@)!%'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 3:15 AMSongs skip and play different songs half way through
mimirut's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 3:03 PMGreat sound.
Mad Traveler's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 2:43 PMThe Sonos system sounds great and is super convenient. The app is just OK. Search functionality is hit or miss. I don’t know why you have to pick whether you want artist, song, or album etc. (you don’t when you search for a song in google... in google you can enter anything, even a few lyrics, and find the song) and the spelling with Sonos search has to be just right. The Sonos app is also just not intuitive. I use it every day, and it still takes me a bunch of clicks to find the current queue. In conclusion: good, not great.
Dcsks's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 12:51 AMIt was working semi-decent but since the last update it skips or just stops songs. Sonos likes to blame WiFi and internet but nothing has changed in my house other than the update. Very disappointed especially for the money. Not recommended!
Vance4242's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 12:29 PMPodcasts frequently stop abruptly and start from the beginning or start a new one. Very frustrating. No issues with music apps.
Kerityuo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 12:06 AMPurchased system at Best Buy sold me an external hard drive and technician did not know how to map my music to system. Still unable to figure out how to play my music. Every time I call Best Buy it’s expensive. No one to speak with at Sonos working with algorithm that does not solve problem with sonos. Would recommend having some one who knows how to install systems they are selling.
busterhayes's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 9/1/18 10:50 PMSonos has provided countless hours of music enjoyment. Several friends and family have left our house wanting their own Sonos system with most following through. A great wireless source, should be in all homes.
Amberlee Thiede's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 7:00 PMWith the latest update, Sonos removed the ability to control the speakers from the lock screen. It’s a complete pain to switch from whatever I’m doing to the Sonos app just to do something as simple as turn down the volume. Please give that ability back!
Sannycat's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 2:25 AMThe sound is beautiful...and I have a heck of a time getting it to work. I loaded it with songs and it worked great for the first few months. The last 6-12 months it can’t find all the speakers and/or it can’t find the songs. For the money, I’m not loving it. The playbar again has beautiful quality sound except the functionality that makes you able to use the remote doesn’t work perfectly. Dialogue is often too quite while the music blasts my ears off. Again sound is great, functionality is poor. Overall rating, just ok.
sonoson's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 2:20 PMThis app is a nice compliment to the great speaker lineup.
Alberto22192's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 2:00 AMMusic skips when the phone is locked. :-( I can’t have my computer running all the time in my room when I’m not on my phone.
EYCR's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 11:27 PMLook somewhere else for your wireless music app, this is a pathetic attempt to stream music from you smart phone or iPad and it’s a complete failure. Cut’s out, can’t un-group rooms and is usually a total mess and inoperative after each update. Sonos is a a disaster waiting to happen.
IIJBII's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 10:54 PMI’ve been a Sonos user since they launched (sonos check out my account)..... the constant updates have been a pain, but it’s crippled my system. Not every time I play music is skips before a single song ends, all the time. I’ve done the updates, move, twist, shake your WiFi. I have multiple phones so it’s not the connection or router. It’s the c*** updates, check the forums. Sad to see a first just turn into a paperweight. Glad the market has a lot of options these days.
Fridgeair's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/31/18 10:27 PMApp is very inconsistent with rooms disappearing and reappearing
ajdjsjsshejwj's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/30/18 9:49 PMVery poor software upgrades. They hardly ever work. Have complained to Sonos repeatedly but they never respond. Very dissatisfied with them.
nbcgal's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/30/18 5:54 PMSo since when does Sonos decide to keep skipping from song to song long before the song is over? Most irritating! Fix it!!!
dhehdhdjdjdjdjdjdjdj's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 9:23 PMEvery sense the last update my app keep force closing while still playing music. This needs to be fixed ASAP. I use my sono everyday
[gotch Kink]'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 8:33 PMSystem is more clumsy now. Worse issue however is the removal of control from lock screen. Please bring it back
Mrskachur's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 6:08 PMI have had Sonos speakers for many years (love them when they first came out). We have one in each room of our home and use them daily. Lately, the music will skip or cut off a song before complete. Very disappointed. Sonos, please fix this app so that it goes back to the wonderful app it was for so long. 😔
apps should work's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 10:53 PMsays it cannot access WiFi when other apps can, troubleshooting is not helpful
Inletchik's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 10:17 PMWe have Sonos speakers in 3 rooms and enjoy listening to music every day with Pandora and Amazon Music. Much better than having the TV blasting all the time!
35 alive's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 8/29/18 10:11 PMLove my Sonos and Pandora shuffle!
BungalowBill143's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 8:44 PMLove SONOS. Do not like I have to upgrade Spotify to hear my playlist.
Bill & Roseann's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 5:40 PMWe have been enjoying the Sonos products throughout our home and garden for about 10 years now and absolutely love it easy to use and the sound quality is excellent!
vgbd's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 5:33 PMThe theory behind Sonos and the way it works is fantastic... The sound quality is great and the ease of set up is amazing... My only quarrel with it (which from what I understand is going to be a thin of the past soon) is that it doesn’t play music that’s in the cloud from my phone... Only music that is downloaded on my phone... I understand why that is but it is the thing that won’t allow me to give it 5 stars... This may seem petty as Sonos and Apple have announced that they will play well together after all with Airplay 2... Looking forward to that...
Attttttttytt's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 1:46 PMThis speaker system is my most prized possession after my family, and I guess my dog (too close to call on that one). The sound quality is great and the app is slicker than the scales on a red fish. Improve your quality of life by 3x by purchasing these speakers.
ayo_og's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 1:14 PMNeeds major updates on the music account available
Lholliday's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 12:10 PMDo these people actually try to use their own app. That would be a start. It really couldn’t be much worse.
bifsheper's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/9/18 12:04 PMToo many updates.... always updating the system...once a month should be plenty, not 3 times a week...
Biagio919's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 4:56 AMIt’s the easiest way to have music streaming to wherever you want just as long as you have an electrical outlet. Lol 😊
g8 NSA's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 2:53 PMEvery time I try to use the app it asks me to download an update. In addition, there is a ton of buffering that happens using Spotify. I have the music downloaded onto my phone from Spotify. My WiFi runs at speeds of 39 up 38 down consistently. Cannot resolve the problem
dr bream's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 12:27 AMSonos people are so helpful!
jamesslc's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 12:01 AMLiterally have to set it up almost every week. Constant updates. Absolutely the worst.
Amm19's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 11:17 PMMuch better when it was embedded in Control4
jdubinMKE's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/8/18 10:44 PMTried deleting then Installed and then tells me to update. The second update is not allowed on my iPhone according to apple. Everything used to work just fine.
IU-Beach's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/7/18 4:45 PMVery, very enjoyable. Upset that it took me so long
Alo Alo Hola's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/7/18 3:26 AMThe best quality sound I’ve heard for your home. Love them.
4koma4's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/7/18 2:20 AMI almost bought a couple Bluetooth speakers to pair. Instead I ended up with a few play ones which is so much better for the same price. Now I’ve been adding on and have a couple play threes also
BetterLivingRPh's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/7/18 1:40 PMWe have Sonos in the master bedroom, office, living room, and patio. We absolutely love love love our Sonos system!
ohmygodjusttakemynickname's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/7/18 11:57 PMThis app is very laggy. Whenever I want to choose a song from my Apple Music a notification pops up saying there’s an error and the song can’t be played and after a few tries it finally works and this happens every time even if I’ve been listening to my music already. So basically if you want to listen to a specific song from one of your playlists be prepared to work for it. Also, your song playlists may take a long time to load and the A-Z scroll on the right side of your screen may or may not even show up at all so be prepared to scroll through every one of your songs until you think you’ve reached the right section where it will be and then wait for the titles and cover art to start appearing. Also, if you want to stream music through YouTube and listen through your speaker, you can forget about it because that’s not an option. Other than that as long as you can get your music playing the sound quality is very good. Just wish Sonos would update their app and fix these bugs or whatever it may be causing the app to be so slow. (Mind you, I don’t have connection problems with my internet and other devices like this in my home so it is internal within the app for sure.)
ardilla y mapache's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/14/18 5:05 PMThe more Sonos you have at home the better. I love music and having Sonos really makes me enjoy it more. The sound is great and it’s excellent when I’m entertaining.
Fmillathisusernameisnew's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/14/18 2:28 AMApp rarely connects to speaker on the first try. I have to unplug and re plug then toggle the WiFi before it MAYBE connects to my iPhone. It has been connected to the same WiFi for two years and this only started happening last year.
Flippy2011's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/14/18 2:17 AMSonos is crap. That is all
eurotable's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/14/18 1:02 AMThis WAS a great product, now is just one big UX mess. My system never runs properly consistently for more the one day. The updates are terrible slow and you usually have to re set up entire system. The smartest thing to buy is a bluetooth amp connect any speakers you want then stream any music you want from your phone or tablet no need for Sonos It’s antiquated technology now. 😆
Scott3694's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/14/18 12:39 AMTried everything, will update if they can fix it.
Elmorellu's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 9:29 PMMy husband loves sonos. I love the idea of sonos - but am constantly frustrated by the glitches in the interface. I go upstairs and am in the middle of listening to a podcast through sonos and it stops. When I push the button it starts over. It seems when they fix one problem a new one arises. I just want to be able to put it on from my phone and have it work without constantly having to futz with it.
Apple-Mark's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 8:58 PMKeeps on saying error! Updated: okay Working
JLdog's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 8:45 PMMy anger with Sonos is boiling
Corgi Dog's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 4:54 PMUpdated app and now I have no control over anything. App no recognizes any of my Sonos components.
Lil ttyl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 4:25 PMSonos has been in my family ever since I was a kid. I was thrilled when I was able to purchase this system for my apartment There is no better feeling than walking inside your home/apartment and being welcomed with your playlist playing in all the rooms or just the rooms you choose. This truly makes my home feel like home. All you need is WiFi and a smartphone!
stephen mono's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 3:41 PMConstantly cuts connection from WiFi and loses speaker pairing, tech supports best suggestion was “reset the WiFi”. We run a bar off of this system and it’s been a gigantic headache
CDC III's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 1:23 AMSonos speaker constantly cuts out and skips songs half way through. Not what I expected. Speakers are. It even far away from my router
wriky's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 12:08 AMthe songs it pulls in are phenomenal ,sounds great to! small glitch here an there but so what. still worth it!
Stevemazich's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/13/18 11:37 PMThere is still no option to put Pandora stations in alphabetical order. So stupid.
Mark Cody's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 9:43 PMThis is such a cutting edge technology, it seems counterintuitive that I can’t control it from my Apple Watch?
jolumeme's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 7:40 PMTiene un sonido #1 lastima que no tiene Bluetooth
Nickcinn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 4:28 PMI have no idea how this new-version of the app is now organized. I keep thinking the problem is me but after several months of using the latest updates, I still don’t have a clue. This after using Sonos for more than five years without any major issue like this. Not amused.
Scott A's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 2:42 PMSame review as always: the audio quality os Sonos products is superb— just unbelievably, insanely great. But they keep asking you to review Sonos, a request that comes from within the (sometimes downright infuriating) software, which is just not a good idea, Sonos, because your app is, well, loony. I cringe each time an “update” arrives.
busterbubba's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 2:25 AMExcellent sound Love being able to choose different music channels for different rooms And run my streaming with ease
hlopez242's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/12/18 11:06 PMWorks nice nice sound
Dogzer's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 9:46 PMWe have to reset the speakers every time we watch a movie or play music on speakers.
quepaseo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 9:39 PMi bought this for my music, but had the installer put it in as surround on 65 Samsung. It has actually saved me money because my wife now stays home all weekend watching movies instead of shopping. The sound for all genres is fantastic!
'Squid's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 8:31 PMI’ve had my Sonos for years, I just added another two nodes, I LOVE the system. It’s been rock solid reliable, aways ready to go. Upgrades are painless and reliable time after time. Sonos have done a fantastic job there. But, 0 the controller app… oh dear, absolutely awful. Please do something to make the next update usable and intuitive again.
LK's iphone's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 7:36 PMLove our Sonos
Disciple69's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 7:06 PMI have these speakers set up at my work station,the sound is great, sometimes I have to turn them down.Siriux,Amazon,Apple,Pandora.Music all day. I love my job and music 🎶 makes it even better 😊
Jonesy2111's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 5:36 PMIt’s awesome.
Photodad1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 3:43 PMA Great speaker at a great price. Easy to connect to WiFi network. The Sonos app makes selecting your music and changing the volume levels a breeze. Two thumbs up!
rockingrosen's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 2:52 PMI know their app has something to be desired. I like it, but when the phone rings and the music playing on iOS, you can’t turn down the volume. I play music at a fairly high volume and this “bug” is truly annoying
Frustrated Seattle's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/11/18 11:38 AMSound is VERY lack luster for what I paid. Wireless is a nice idea, but I Hate the delays in accessing controls from my phone. I’ve read sound Improves if I invest in a sub woofer and more speakers, but at $700 a piece, I’m super hesitant to invest. If the sound from the get-go was price appropriate, I’d have no problem investing in more, but it’s dubious at best. Also, getting the sound bar to play my music is so hard that I have yet to figure it out. Thought it would be easy for anyone’s device to “hop on” and DJ” but it’s not. That doesn’t help. But frankly, the sound is so unimpressive I’m not in a big hurry to figure it out, because my home stereo (Harman Kardon) blows it away. Overall it’s just expensive for what it is.
sonos rock's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 8:12 PMAwesome sound system. I have had top of the line speakers and these beat them all!
Why do I need a nickname???...'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 5:31 PMSonos speakers sound great, except when the app disconnects and turns off the speakers randomly. This happens for our speakers when playing music, audiobooks, and podcasts, as often as every 5 minutes sometimes. This of course makes listening on Sonos very difficult, as the app is also a bit slow and clunky. (I wouldn’t have too big of an issue with the slowness of the app, except that I have to restart it repeatedly) On a side note, Sonos also needs to incorporate podcasts better. Podcasts subscribed to cannot be streamed, but must be downloaded. In addition, it is very difficult to navigate through the podcast precisely with just a slider and no rewind/fast-forward buttons like the native iOS app.
bandido273's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 4:33 PMthe screen hangs up after walking around the room when calibrating and waking up the neighbors with the loud beaming sound. The screen hangs up in iphone 8 and 8plus
gigigg126's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 3:59 PMIt fills my house with the music I love, and the artists I enjoy. Have speakers all over my house. Love it!
rriveron's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 2:36 PMI love Sonos. I have all of them. The sound from the whole set is amazing. I recommend it to anyone. Thanks
gfbozz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 2:25 PMWhile the app has improved, it’s got a long way to go. Needs to be more intuitive to hop between functions.
David6670's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 2:17 PMWhile I’m quite happy with my Sonos hardware, the iPhone app leaves a lot to be desired. All too frequently, when I’m streaming music that is resident on my phone, there is WiFi interference (I guess) and the music stops. That’s not so bad, but when play resumes, the app has skipped ahead - usually by several tracks - instead of resuming from the point at which comms was momentarily lost. This is simply unacceptable and infuriating. I spent my entire career as a software engineer and can’t imagine why sane behavior would be impossible. The only response I’ve gotten from Sonos support thus far is to request that I submit diagnostics when this happens. But my issue is not that comms is lost, it’s what the app does in response.
fghttggiiiseg's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 1:05 PMHere’s the deal on the 56-year-old guy who spends more time on the tractor or his pick up truck or boat fish and it definitely does not enjoy anything high-tech. The guy at the store told me it’s not a big deal you can set this up yourself and he wasn’t kidding I now have great music in every room I want to complete different rooms at a time different songs all from my phone. What would you look at here I guess I know I’m a technology and now
scott03's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 6/10/18 10:00 PMI’ve spent a small fortune on multiple Sonos Connect units. On a far too frequent basis the app can’t find the units on my network just moments after they were available. It takes several attempts at killing the app and turning WiFi off/on along with a few moments of prayer to get it to connect again...if I’m lucky. Sonos has a great concept but execution is poor. It’s too bad there isn’t a solid competitor to get them to make their system live up to the promise.
Yesssssssssstssssss's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMI am having marked trouble while listening to my music on sonos. Music keeps getting interrupted and changing to the next song if music is being listened from iphone. Sonos equipment sounds amazing but can only listen to music if it is from in my computer.
MSC1121's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMI cannot add my new sonos speakers because the Sonos Controller app says that I must update the app to proceed.there is no update available in Apple’s App Store either for the Sonos app OR iOS. Using a brand new iPhone XR. Contacting Sonos was no help as they could not figure out a solutions returning the speakers now. I can get the same quality (or better) sound with MUCH easier setup and maintenance processes for a fraction of the cost. I do not recommend this or any of their products.
Texas hop's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMBest system ever! Great to give as a gift- terrific sound!
GetSonosRight's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMThere are problems with songs skipping when playing iTunes downloaded songs. I have where there problem has been around for a long time. It past time for Sonos to fix this issue.
Bradrey123's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMI don’t really care about how unintuitive the app is. I can forgive that if the app works and remains stable. But it’s not stable. It crashes or locks up constantly. I have also run into situations where the music will cut in and out. The speakers are fantastic but the app can make or break the experience. Please take the app seriously, Sonos.
stevieDMC's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMYou can’t develop an app that shows a map of the individual speakers. Lame. I like to toss this whole system out the window. Frustrating!
spinetingler's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMI am so happy with all my Sonos items. Playbar, Sub, Beam and as of today two play:1. The app is great and voice commands are fun!
Robin Ross's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMThe speakers stop playing randomly. Have reset and restarted multiple times. Fail.
Bevo17171's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMThis app is crap
eichie02's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMMy dad introduced me to it a few years ago went from one play 1 to a play 3 not just bought a play 5. Awesome sound glad I bought it Sean s.
finnjaf's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMLove my Sonos speaker! Sound is fantastic and it was so incredibly easy to set up. I can see anyone doing it. Kids, Middle Ages and the elderly!
difemo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMI have good sound. Nothing else need be said.
tgrarob's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/31/18 12:44 PMPlease make a connection with Apple Music so I can play music off the Apple Music app
Anapanaj's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMThe most quirky, inconsistent app that does not work. It does, however, consistently disconnect, cannot connect, and does not interface with music sources properly. And just to be sure it wasn’t us we have even employed the use of a professional electronics installer. Many friends struggle with the same issues. After a significant investment in Sonos systems and set up throughout the house it is disappointing to say the least that the app does not work consistently.
Lisahacle's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMBut I am over 55.
Gdubchocolaye's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMLove the speakers, easy set up and connection. But the app connectivity is terrible. It consistently drops out while listening to music or podcasts. I have asked their support team for help and they don’t even have a fix for it. If your reading this, you have probably already bought the speakers but if not, you would be better off getting other speakers.
davidmoccasin's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMSporadic and does not work reliably
Plantboy10's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMSonos does not work on iPhone with your own music. It will play a part of a song then skip and skip and skip. Very unhappy.
dfeeryuhgfds's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMSongs constantly cut out 1/2 way through, incredibly annoying
Wachywalky's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMIt would be nice if the system was more advance with smart tech for the price point it is at. App is okay. Sound quality is great for size of speakers. Wireless Connection is a breeze, but requires wife unlike straight up Bluetooth speakers - (pros and cons to booth). Customer service was very helpful and easy to deal with the one and only time I had a problem
Brad the Bold's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMWant to stream music to your speakers while you work out? Great! Oh you want to use a work out app at the same time? Sorry then Sonos will start skipping songs after playing them for 2min then switch to a random song. Then skip a few more. Then stop. How’s your workout going? U mad?
Do Cal Don's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMEvery time I request Alexa to play music, she will play one song then stops playing.
Monster Robin's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMBoth my girlfriend use Sonos Excellent product
The Best Stuff!'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/30/18 12:35 PMThe app is in desperate need of an update to fix A problem that has started in the last month or so. I have a playlist on my iPhone and when I tried to use it each song only plays partially before the next one comes on in the queue. This problem did not happen with previous versions. Streaming music services seem to work fine but the music stored on my phone does not. I have rebooted the phone and tried everything I know to fix the problem. Help!
FLL33304's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMFor anybody considering a wireless music system in their home Sonos in my opinion is the best. All you need is a 110 outlet to plug in the speakers and the sound system works fabulous I have speakers in every room. I love it.
gluttonbuttin''s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMSuperior sound functionality and customer service. I didn’t like that one song though.
PR2Racing's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMWe love our Sonos systems. No constant messing around like all other systems, it just plays....
hlanzeka's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMI can’t play other artists from all around the country
Aloro1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMBest ever sound 1000/% power sound stelar. 📈✅💹⤴️
tgrarob's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMPlease make a connection with Apple Music so I can play music off the Apple Music app
17 monthUser's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMAfter 6 years of owning my Sonos I am still amazed that this company would shut down my Sonos Connect until I downloaded their flawed update. This is the third time I’ve been aggravated by their flawed update and if I had just purchased this product I would be returning it immediately. I always prefer to update my devices once the “bugs are worked out”. Why would Sonos even put out an update without extensive testing and reviewing periods? It speaks to their foolishness or maybe a sense of urgency to collect and sell customer’s personal information. Why else would Sonos need to access your cellular data for a unit that is hard wired at your home (and not mobile). When I purchased my Sonos it played Pandora commercials just once every few hours. Their updates changed that benefit too. There are better choices for streaming at home and I will not ever again recommend a Sonos anyone.
mugolf's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMThe functionality of this app is terrible and doesn’t connect well with Apple Music. Love Sonos but man the app is brutal!
Jrzoltowski's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMThe speakers are great, great sound. But, the app is super glitchy. Freezes or just turns off frequently. I wish you could just connect your phone through Bluetooth and run music through these speakers without using the Sonos app! If you run SiriusXM through it, especially listening to any on demand programs....forget it, can’t fast forward or rewind....so when the app shuts down on you in the middle of a show, which will happen, when you reboot everything you cannot go back to where you left off....you have to start the show from the beginning. Once connect everything sounds great, I just wish the interface with certain subscriptions and app worked better as it’s the only way to use Sonos speakers.
Mentaltherapy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMIf you don’t own Sonos you need to get with times. Tune management by rooms is amazing and this app makes life way to simple
KenshinYJ's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMUPDATE - my sonos speakers went out of sync yet again. I tried adding the speaker back via the dreaded app. And alas, Sonos YET AGAIN DISABLED the add speaker feature until I updated the app. Dear Sonos, if you keep up this practice, how are the users who have an older iPhone who can no longer update their iOS and therefore can’t update their Sonos app going to use this expensive stereo system that THEY PAID FOR?? Have you thought of this before you thought of your incessant c*** updates and constant disabling or app privileges unless an app update is made? Or will all these similar complaints fall of deaf ears? UPDATE- if you are having problems Alexa finding your sonos speakers, try this. Go to Alexa app and delete the speaker in from the menu “Smart Home”. Then use Alexa app to rediscover your speaker again. Then it should work. —————- The update knocked out all my speakers out of network once again and proceeded to tell me I need to add all my speakers again. Here we go again.... Now add salt to the injury, when I tell Alexa to play my music via my amazon music account, Alexa cannot find the speakers. Once again, are Sonos app developers listening here? Please stop taking my system hostage. Why do you prevent users from using their system if they don’t update the app when everything WORKS????? Stop it. Please!!!!!
Horrible!!! Terrible Version's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMI bought the Playbase with sub and two Play 1 surround speakers. From the moment I opened them and plugged them in, I was more than impressed with this app. It makes so incredibly easy to connect the speakers to your WiFi and get them up and going. And the room tuning feature of the app on the iPhone is wicked cool! Best app I’ve used in a while.
N/A71's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMMy sonos has been cutting out a lot recently when listening to the radio. I don’t know if it’s the sonos or the tunein app or a combination of the two, but it’s really annoying.
Rompy12's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMIt worked great for 3 months then our Sonos Beam quit recognizing and broadcasting the TV sounds. It is the Christmas holiday period ,but we have not had any replies to our email that we sent about this problem 4 days ago.
Nick734736's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMI frequently receive error codes; messages saying I already have music playing on another device (I don’t), requiring me to restart my phone; sometimes it can’t find my speakers, despite being connected to Wifi. Sometimes it takes me 5-10 minutes or troubleshooting before I can listen to music. A real headache to use sometimes. Have seriously considered returning the speakers due to the app.
Bmulz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMSound is awesome. Fills the room and the phone app is great. Doesn’t work with Samsung One remote. Need to update.
Sanchez1680's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMI’m gonna sell my whole set up. The amount of complications when changing WiFi is ridiculous. The problems on a constant basis is ridiculous. Alexa doesn’t even work anymore.
Jphven's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMSonos, enough. You’re not innovating enough to warrant app updates every time I open up the app. It’s just music and I just want to turn it on and listen...
wbwick's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMThe crisp sound, and ease of use make sonos a special must have in any home.
aggravators's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMUser Friendly
Anonymous29172$393727383&'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMThe Sonos app is great for listening to music, but as an avid podcast listener, it’s upsetting that the podcast restarts as I am listening to it. I could be in the middle of a great podcast when it restarts from the beginning and I have to find my spot again.
Quiltinggran's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMIt’s always playing in my home.
Ray_iphone4s's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMProblem: This Sonos Controller app in iOS doesn’t finish the playing song and advances to next track when the music is from ‘On this iPhone’. In contrast, the same songs are played without advancing/skipping when they are with ‘Music Library’ (which hosts by a running PC or NAS). I rate this app 1 star; since I intend to control music in my home from iPad (and/or iPhone) where I arranged music into iTunes list with specific ordering/sequence.
Albd's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMAfter recent updates, I can barely connect to Sonos through the app. Cannot find system on network.
al12356789's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMIt is not easy to change from one WiFi to another. That’s the only thing that needs to change, and possibly have a blue tooth set up and an inverter for car rides!
Joe741's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMSystem sounds terrific and is very easy to setup. There are occasional times when SiriusXM just doesn’t work. It’s very frustrating but otherwise no problems.
TryHarderFace's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMEasy to use and amazing sound.
El Carapila's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/29/18 12:36 PMWe purchased playbar and 2 speakers for the tv room, and we are happy customers!
picdad's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMFor all the hype, Sonos stinks. Unreliable, and unpredictable. A freckles system at best. It appears to know WHEN you want to use it because in our experience that is WHEN it fails. When you try to get technical assistance, miraculously it’s a real challenge to get help. The good news is Sonos is ALWAYS ready to CHARGE you for more product. That system seems to work flawlessly. Save yourself some stress and. DON’T buy Sonos.
Mr T 03/28's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMI’m very disappointed with Sonos after the last update to 9.3.1. The application repeatedly skips and/or randomly jumps songs when playing a playlist from my iPad. At times it states its lost the connection to the iPad and will not play songs. Application testing should catch these things before releasing an upgrade. Please take a look at this to correct the problem in the next release.
too too many's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMToo many updates. Way too many
stonehillatnorthhills's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMDoe not work with my I phone
To being healthy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMLet me start with the positive. The look, ease of use and the sound are all amazing. The bad. The Sonos speakers are big WiFi hogs. Had I read the reviews and Sonos users portal, I would not have purchased them. The speakers consistently drop out. All due to the WiFi network. I’ve been through three providers and the outcome is always the same. I’ve called Sonos and they work some magic, all works for about 15 minutes. Of course this is after I’ve hung up with support. The connectivity issue is all you find on the user portal. It is a major issue with Sonos, If you have more than on speaker. I have the surround setup and when it works, it is amazing. However the sub, play ones and occasionally the sound bar all drop off. If I had to guess, I’d say yesterday with all day Christmas music playing, the play ones and sub dropped off 10-15 times for 10-30 seconds. Sonos tells me the fix is a new router. Not the c***** ones you get with your internet provider. Thanks Sonos for the help. Once again had I known what I know now, I would have bought the Bose. It uses RF to link speakers and one speaker hooked to WiFi.
Tiger1867's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMThe Critical: 1) Every now and then playback through the app will change to the next song without the first one finishing. All settings have been checked, app deleted and then reinstalled, etc but the issue periodically happens. 2) Playback and/or connection with Pandora can be funky. Sometimes when playing through the Pandora App, it will launch and play through your Pandora feed through the Sonos App🤨. The Good: Love Sonos. Love what they are doing with sound. The app has been fantastic, especially when I took the plunge to really explore the app and the integration of music services.
fredloveshismuaic's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMBad UX. Love everything else.
Leslie Kriegler's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMGreat product and great app. I am visually handicapped and as a result, I need to use speech to use the app. It is very accessible and I appreciate the efforts of the developers to make it that way.
Dragon Dictation 's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMI can’t imagine ever going back to using stereo equipment with bulky speakers. All I need is my iPhone and I can play my downloaded music, radio stations, Pandora and more. Sonos is technology at its finest!
Newcarguy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMThe speakers are off the hook & the App takes listening to music next level!!!! Easy & super user friendly plus reliable!!!!!!
MinnieCRM's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMHard time keeping it working.
joekazmodiaz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMSounds is incredible for such a small speaker! Love it!!!
keviny1971's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMBuggy. Doesn’t hook up to internet. Very difficult
curtchop's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMI assume the small Asian children building these are hopefully making 10 dollars an hour or more for this price to be so inflated. More likely and 3000% markup
Anonymous 1-1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMGood and useful but annoying to search for songs because they are categorized so much
apudnsusian's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMNeed to get the bugs with the app sorted out. The fix isn’t making Sonos users change their SiriusXM password every other week. Fix the issues!! Not worth the money if the speakers can’t play music!
Timbo907's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMUsing this app the Sonos One will not connect to my Apple Airport Extreme 2.4Ghz b/g network. Customer support was only available during a time convenient for those living in the EST. By the time those of us are opening presents in Alaska, the support window had closed. Smh...
south florida cracker's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMThis speaker will never update and I can’t add it to my system very poor Bluetooth capability
Farbuck's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMThe title says it all: Absolutely fantastic
RLUSOMstars's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/26/18 12:30 PMAmazing sound. Easy set up and connectivity to my other Sonos devices and rooms. Very versatile. Only issue was getting Alexa to recognize my Sonos Devices.
georged128's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMAirplay won’t work. My recently downloaded music from Apple is t even showing up and my guests are on the way. Should have bought Bose.
Dw2679's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMSound quality is ridiculous. I also love the fact that works of your apps and not your phone itself
Kevy76's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMThey rank up there with the bose.
brflechs's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMI don’t have this issue on iPhone but on iPad it’s not letting me select music from the iPad to create lists or queues....very disappointing was not an issue before
Zpin1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMKeep getting disconnected from Sonos. Lost all my playlists when I resorted to factory reset. How can you not be addressing all these complaints about your update?
GTR4Dove's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMI have had Sonos since it was first introduced. Initial the App was easy to use and straight forward. With each update and added functionality it has gotten more confusing and less intuitive. My poor wife doesn’t even like using it anymore..... the app is packed with options, but for everyday use it is a pain. Unless you have something saved in your shortcuts, you have to rethink how to select and find music channels that I want. I consider myself somewhat technology literate and find myself pausing trying to figure out how to do things. For people who are confused easily by technology this app will drive you crazy. I know .... I hear from my wife all the time. I think Sonos needs to use the KISS methodology (keep it simple s***** ) and redesign this app and let the average person test it and not a bunch of engineers. I wish I could rate the Sonos speakers and system separately because I would give it five stars. The app needs to be easier to use for basic functionality for the technically challenge. If you make it easier to use....my wife might let me buy another speaker…
Sonos letdown's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMIn my opinion the app is clunky and so frustrating! The Sonos system works fine for the television, but when it comes to music thanks to their app the system is almost unusable! When the iPhone locks there are no audio controls from the lock screen and the music skips constantly making the app unusable. A big reason I got this system was to be able to listen to my music library, with the ability to easily control it from my phone. Unless I compromise my iPhone by setting it to never lock, music listing isn’t an option.
gmlaudone1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMI demo’d several systems including Bose and I Love my Sonos. Excellent fidelity. Excellent surround imaging. The WiFi system is the way to go. I want more! Hats off to the designers. You nailed it!
Rodvhfs884's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMThe design and usability of the app is bad. Tough to figure it out. I do software design and this is just badly designed. But I would accept it if the system worked. It doesn’t. I have a solid high speed connection and multiple WiFi access points and it doesn’t work reliably. Avoid it if you can.
303Rp's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMAs a user...this app is not user friendly, dose not support adding and removing functionality to rooms, having speakers as different groups, and limited tuning for premium price product. The landing page should be set up with a tile type menu that increases navigation, linking of devices and over all functionality.
Mrsvis's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMLove our Sonos sound system but when we stream music through Pandora or Amazon it cuts out frequently and this is very annoying because it did not do this before. It will say can’t connect or unable to play yet this never happens while streaming tv or playing Pandora from the Apple TV app. What’s going on!
Hedden2Home's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMOur Sonos has been a wonderful addition to our home. It is very easy to set up and play but we continuously have problems with our settings being arranged differently every time we turn it on. We have seven speakers and quite often only one speaker will be turned on or two or three will be turned off and sometimes it won’t allow us to access Pandora. You must keep regular updates which can be a pain, but when it’s actually playing, it’s an extremely nice system.
goi726's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMThe Sonos feed is not browsing my music preferences.
KB899's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMSimple and intuitive to set up.
Screened in porch's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMThere’s a software update ever time I open the app. What’s up with that!?!?
Jetlat7878's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMThe app is not working as it used to. Just this morning I noticed the volume control does not work. The system plays for awhile then shuts off. Sometimes when switching artist, the song doesn’t begin to play. I agree with others that the app isn’t what it used to be. Now the app is the issue, not the sound system.
Derek Gross's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMWhenever I update the app I spend days trying to get it to work again. The speakers sound great.
TeamVClan's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMWish it could be controlled by Control4 like it use to be. That would truly make my life easier.
dtsonos's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMI’m sick of all the updates and making me re register zones that have been registered before.
kimberthered's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMAt first I loved my Sonos it was fun,novel sound was clear and it wasn’t hard to use. Well now that’s over it seems it’s not long from on update to the next nag nag nag do YOU HAVE A NEW UPDATE (and your usage won’t be as good without) oh my goodness I miss the days of popping in a Cassette or CD and a radio didn’t require a freakin UPDATE! Oh never mind streaming is not that great I can’t get all local stations. .... like I said honeymoon over I’ve had my sono’s for about 3-4 years....I’m looking for a way out.
1738bruh's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMVery glitchy and stops working about 25% of the time. I have to reinstall the controller on a regular basis. I am tech savvy and run Apple IOS at home, just FYI
M&M Cambo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMMy app keeps disconnecting from the music services. Which makes my Speaker’s useless.
Cupertino Dad's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMImpossible to update the the speaker for new routers or wireless networks. It asks you to hard wire to your router, but it won’t detect the connection. It just gives you the run around with different instruction. Better off resetting it.
we sell houses's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMJust updated my sonos speakers and now it says it does not support my music??? HELP ITS CHRISTMAS EVE!!!! We just bought these about a month ago.
CV Farm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/25/18 12:14 PMMusic cuts out all the time for no reason.
Really Sonos?'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMWouldn’t buy again.
John G. aka JP's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMI use an iPhone and don’t like that I have to unlock my phone and open the app to adjust the volume or go to next track. Otherwise, it takes some time to get used to how to navigate through your music from the various sources. I just feel like I spend too much time Messi g around with this app.
papa1022's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMI love my sonos. My problem is it keeps disconnecting from my tv remote and now I can’t reconnect. Impossible to get someone on the phone for help.
Rc in big D's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMSONOS is the modern solution to tie modern music and entertainment options together. Support is smart and helpful
gpeekaboo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMThis is possibly one of the worst user interfaces I have encountered, especially for a brand of this size and innovation. Dont get me wrong Sonos speakers and the concept itself is brilliant, however the organization of the app makes it painful to use. Take a hint from Spotify and make this user friendly, there is no use paying upwards of $200 for speakers, when they become difficult to use due to sub par programming.
The Star Of Frisci's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMNo system comes close.
JPTrnthm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMConsistently stops play regardless of app update. And as of 12/23 it’s still without change.
nickname7419469304's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMAbout once a month a software upgrade is pushed out resulting in the system losing connectivity and a need to call customer service.
uyb's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMOdoyle rules
8);:;8)(338&?(:3('s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMSonos constantly drops out in the middle of songs, despite strong WiFi signal. So frustrating that I rarely use the app.
YogiBear9's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMIf you are considering a speaker system for your home, you have found it! Look no further. It is simply the best. Yes, it is more expensive than other systems, but you get what you pay for. Easy to set up, easy to enjoy. Makes for a great surround system for watching movies, or for simply listening to music. I can’t say enough great things about it. Just buy it, but think of it as an investment. You will get so much enjoyment from it. You won’t be disappointed. (Sounds like a Marketing message from Sonos, I know. But it’s not. I’m just a satisfied customer 😊).
Jeaparra's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMLo recomiendo 100%
allrisks's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/24/18 12:33 PMAlways unable to access my iTunes music. This is getting really annoying
CrJJJJJ's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMGetting really annoying, relax ya maniacs.
Oscar Jameson's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMI expect to be able to control music from my lock screen (as every other music app allows), so I’m confused why Sonos chose not to include this feature. This is the same for controlling volume, I don’t want to have to unlock my phone and open the app just to turn it down or up. I should be able to do this from the lock screen. Also, why is there no bluetooth functionality? I get that Sonos wants you to use its app to ensure quality audio playback. But this is a real pain if a friend wants to play music - they have to download the app and then sync with the speaker. The speaker is not easily portable. As to my point about bluetooth, because the speaker plays via WiFi connection, if you take your speaker somewhere else you have to set it up on a new WiFi network. I couldn't figure out how to do this. If there was Bluetooth functionality I could easily just connect and play from my phone. Love the speaker, hate the app.
feeling a fool's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMThe speakers have very nice qualities. A bit pricey perhaps. Yet I have several so .... main problem is the software it remains buggy. They seem to favor the phone and leaves us desktops behind
TEH 99's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMGood sounding CD quality, flexible, reliable, supports most popular music services. I use Connects with my own amps for existing wired in-ceiling speakers, Sonos speakers, and Soundbars for a total of eight zones so far - party mode truly rocks the house. Sonos just needs to support high resolution files. It deserves the best sound available.
panda pops alot's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMMy problem is if I want to play music I have to pay for it.Also when I search for a song or artist it says it has no clue or something like that.And it’s really annoying because I bought my Sonos speaker to listen to music better and got the sonos app to play music on my sonos speaker.Im sorry sonos but I am pretty disappointed.So this is my feedback.P.S please make the sonos app better
atspa's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMThis is the worst app that I’ve ever used. I’ve used it on different iphones and Ipads and it freezes up all the time, on all of them. This is terrible!
mook3527's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMRandomly skips songs.
mojitosam's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMDoesn't play full songs I've purchased on my phone! So lame!
sonoscantfixit's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMNot happy because sonos won’t play from iPhone. Stops in middle of a track and skips to any track
claudiobennett's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMGreat speakers quality but the app needs a major improvement. You want to listen a album and I keep shuffling to different songs and artists. I'd like to be to be able to skip the song without to have to unlock the screen and this is not possible. Probably going to donate it to my brother and buy a boose...
Josehoya's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMWorks pretty well. Just wish it worked with Apple Watch
Red bull racing #1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMThe integration for airplay2 is terrible. I can see the amp as a choice but it won’t connect at all. Also I can’t edit my Pandora shuffle playlist in the Sonos app. Overall needs a lot of work
Russ87's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMI can't even enjoy my speakers anymore because the recent version of this app skips songs without any interaction whatsoever.
U txt t r e r's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMWhen I see the red notification dot in the latest versions I figure maybe there is some important update I need to read about. I don’t expect I will be seeing the same new product ads I saw and deleted yesterday. Remember the boy who cried wolf? How do I opt out of these repeated ads? How about fixing some of the flaky UI aspects and inconsistencies between music services?
kle4358's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMStreaming music from your iOS device is broken, and skips to the next song after a minute or so of every song. This problem has been known to Sonos for months, yet they cannot or will not fix.
Kbnic's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMI love everything about my speakers! My favorite is the alarm feature. I can set music to play at the start and end of our day. No yelling “time for bed!” Or “get ready for school!” The children simply hear Sonata in D Minor and they know what to do!!
nacygh's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMVery nice collection
Happy Ho Lucky's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMKeep having to Unplug and Plug my Play 3 in way too often. I have had SONOS in the Phone a Few Times and it appears as though the Tech People just aren't Technical??? I gave up!!! It’s such an Issue with my Speaker sitting right next to our Modem That I’am we’re just dumbfounded. I have done All the Updates and it is just a Real PITB that I have to keep unplugging the Speak and Plugging it back in. Just a real Dumb thing that Continues to Plague us with SONOS! I would rate the App better, but..... It takes me a While sometimes to even get to the point of being able to USE IT!!!
Tester 921's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMThe Sonos app skips with Spotify music. Great design, but poor execution
bruceofmb's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/23/18 12:03 PMDid an update now nothing works
Patrick New York's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMIt very un-Mac. It doesn’t work well. Is buggy and frustrating. It feels like a bad windows port. The error messages don’t make sense and you can’t debug it. I’ve never been able to play music from my computer. I guess it works great for streaming, but if you don’t do that. You’re in for a world of pain.
money faucet's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI’ll be removing this malware ASAP. Dunno why on earth I would need an app to connect to a bluetooth speaker but it was immediately clear when I opened it. I can only use the “music devices” authorized by sonos. So glad I tried before buying and know to avoid this c***** product altogether. Save yourself a headache and buy a proper speaker that doesn’t push this nonsense.
cathyvek's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI loved my Sonos system, but lately it will not play a song all the way through. This happens only when I play music on my phone. I can play Spotify, Amazon, etc. with no problem, but my favorite play lists are on my phone. I’m very disappointed and sorry I bought this system.
Kahee's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI have a control 4 and speakers throughout my house and Bose headphones. Sonos is great. I use Spodify and love they have podcasts now. My only wish is I could use it with YouTube since there is great music there
jcash2417's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMAmazon music is terrible with this device.
gettos's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMMany bugs that need to be addressed, when playing music from my iPhone the songs skip by themselves, I have to leave the phone unlocked to be able to listen to the songs, it’s annoying and disappointing that Sonos been so expensive and can’t fix this problems...
Wild horn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMSince installing 4 speakers throughout my office we have been uplifted with beautiful sound easily synced to Pandora and Spotify Highly recommend Sonos
Chatham #9's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI'm retired, and want to simplify things. Sonos has done that for me. It drives the sound on my tv, vastly improving my ability to understand dialogue (tough for a 67 year old). It drives the audio for all of my Apple devices, providing excellent sound as it replaces apps, preamps, turntables, and CD players. A simple way to get great music playback. And... I think the sound is excellent!
Hoffy45's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PM..........then bought 4 more!!!!
Life explorer's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMour sonos is out for 2 days now! Out of nowhere, the Play button is “dead”, doesn’t function anymore!!!! Our app is up to date; Wi-Fi system works as usual for everything else! Is sonos app malfunction? This is the second time it happened! Last time it came back eventually with no reason! Now it is dead again! We spent hundreds $ on your system, we expect better than this!
mjr029's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMAbsolutely love sonos. App works perfect- bug free and simple to use. Sound quality and user experience are paramount!
Cinderelldad's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMWe enjoy more and varied types of music with a two room set up of three Ones a Playbar and Sub. Sound is theater quality. So nice to listen to tv with this! Alexa is obedient and even tempered. Ready at your beck and call.
missyhulsey's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMWould give 6 stars if I could!
fsboswfl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMHas glitches. Skips songs randomly. Stops suddenly.
Grizzlethorr's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMCan’t play your own recordings (that I am aware of) maybe I need to try harder. Like the SONOS development team. Seems like weekly updates. Yeah. Needs more frequent updates. Actually, no it doesn’t. WHY DON’T YOU JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU GET A DECENT BUILD AND STOP WITH THE GODDAMN UPDATES!?!
Anthony Croix's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI’ve messed with a lot of systems through the years to sync music throughout the house. Most were complex, costly, underperformed and turned out to be a waste of money. Sonos isn’t the least expensive option but I believe it the best. Especially given the ease of set up and the great online and phone support. Sound is great without any reverb throughout the house, upstairs, down and outside. I highly recommend
bill in gouverneur's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI loved Sonos but am finally sick of it getting bricked every time they update the speaker software. We have it at our second home and every time we arrive an upgrade is required. The app and speakers are unusable until an upgrade is completed and the upgrades fail every time. Horrible to brick the units to mandate an upgrade and leave people without service. Sadly, I would look at amazon or others if you don’t like constant buggy upgrades making your system unusable.
Cycling56's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMThe app is not as responsive as it used to be.
tomatotomato's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMPerfect time for a review request. Been trying for 15 minutes to play music. Keep restarting the app. Usually it’s just the skipping songs for 10 minutes to worry about
Christophe au Benin's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI live in Africa where bandwidth is poor and Sonos often doesn’t work. When it does work, it is constantly updating. I am not happy with the product.
109germ's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMOnce you get one sonos you want more
newer is bot better's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMWhen we bought our home over a year ago we placed Sonos on every level and have the speakers in at least 6 areas. It was so easy to use but over the last 6 months it has become so time intensive and challenging to use. We usually just play music from our phone. We too used to tell people to get it now I say its not worth the aggravation. We invested a lot of money into this system and I regret it.
Mr.Breeden's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI like our Sonos soundbar, but the app is the pits. It isn’t intuitive for searching, it can’t figure out how to bring up results if there are misspelled words, podcasts are hard to access, and the app doesn’t save search history or common searches.. I use Apple music, and their app is much easier and more helpful...too bad I can’t use that app with the speaker. Seriously, I am baffled by the juxtaposition: top shelf speakers but a very flawed interface to use it.
Matt4568's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMThe most recent update has had trouble connecting to the sonos. Turn WiFi off, back on. Still doesn’t work. This happens pretty much every time I open the app. This is with a completely up to date IOS on iPhone X. Hopefully they fix it soon.
unusednuckname5555's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI expect much better software for a $200 speaker. The app regularly can't find my speakers, drops connection in the middle of songs, and occasionally forces a software update before I am allowed to interact with my speakers. I only use the app to set speaker groups at this point, the Spotify integration works better than the app itself. I suggest allowing users to opt out of software updates as well as caching speaker addresses so it doesn't have such a long discovery time when I want to use it.
call it quits's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMI’ve been completely dissatisfied with Sonos in the past 3 month period. I have been hit with one problem after the next. Previously, no troubles. Now, constant skipping, stopping & simply not playing from my iTunes library. M4a simply not recognized. I’ve spent hours on the phone & computer with sonos tech support.
mr. (plasterer)'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMIt is marvelous I’m enjoying it that’s why I want to get another one thank you
pcw90802's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMTerrible - unfixable issues
Timmihg's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/22/18 12:14 PMWhat happened to Sonos!? Hardware works great but recent versions of the app really messed up. Now I can’t access some of my music on my phone and songs stop playing mid way. I’ve upgraded to latest version of app and iOS but it doesn’t fix anything.
Cyaner's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMI just spent several thousand dollars to get our first Sonos products. I bought a whole-home system including two Playbars, multiple Sonos One’s, a Sonos Beam, etc. I should have done more research on the freaking app. It is the most confounding, confusing, cuss-worthy, useless app I have ever attempted to learn. I’m a competent tech person...not an expert by any means...but I learn and navigate all apps without assistance. Not this one, though. It is frustrating beyond belief. It is the WORST! At first I appreciated the app’s clean look. That lasted until I needed to troubleshoot our system which happened at breakneck speed. Then I realized how very little explanation and help screens there really are. What is there is overly-simplified and the most basic of instructions. I will have to call our A/V professionals back out because apparently sharing useful information on this app is too much to ask. Even as I’m typing this, my husband is screaming he cannot get sound from the TV on a Playbar using the app. My husband is beyond frustrated and I am so regretting I didn’t check out these reviews to see all the unhappy customers complaining about this version of the Sonos app before I spent all the money on the hardware. I never write app reviews but this one deserves a great big ZERO out of five stars. **UNSATISFACTORY**
Talldark1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMThe difference between getting up and changing an album or cd is night and day
Mtb-co-kd's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMI wish there was better more robust interface to my music on Apple. I want to be able to play anything. A video with sound. I want to play it with my sonos 1 or 2. The sound quality is pretty awesome.
cj12245's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMI’m not one for public reviews, as a business owner I’d prefer to contact directly and privately through email or phone. Unfortunately I cannot find a phone number for sonos, and the link for email contact on their website doesn’t work. So, here we go. I bought my first sonos speaker 2 yrs ago & it worked flawlessly. So I added another speaker and their amp, again it worked perfect. Then I added 3 more speakers, and another amp at my cabin, perfect once again. So last winter I added 4 more speakers. Worked great for a few months then something changed. Occasionally everything works fine, but more often than not it skips songs and/or quits playing. This has been going on for over 9months. Their speakers are wonderful, but if the app doesn’t work, they’re completely worthless. I have noticed that they work better (but not perfect) through airplay than using the sonos app. I use iPhone/iPad. and update iOS and sonos app regularly. Same problems exist at two different locations, two different internet providers. The only thing I can think of that both locations have in common is that I have Control4. I don’t use Control4 to access the sonos speakers, but do use it for accessing the sonos amp, which I very rarely use. The control4 is the only thing I could think of that may possibly interfere, maybe an update where it periodically try’s to contact other endpoints and that causes a skip or something with your app??? I have seen similar reviews of the sonos system skipping on iOS but didn’t see anyone mention control4, I do hope this helps to fix the issue.
Shinxanta's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMReally tired of the app constantly stopping my songs and skipping ahead by a few when I open the app to check on the current queue. App is super annoying, listening to music seamlessly is a fantasy at this point.
realtor-ron's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMUse it in our clubhouse, pool, tiki area and pavilions! Only thing I’d like more is if it had a simple clock feature to play from 8am to 9pm.
WingMark's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMThe Sonos app takes a little getting used to as the go to place for music via my new Sonos system. Once you do though it’s quit seem less and easy to use. I currently have three zones (if you will). Living Room/Kitchen, Master Bedroom, and Pool (w/Sonos Pre-Amp). It was all easy to set up and now easy to play music throughout the house (whatever and where ever). Remarkable improvement over my previous traditional and outdated Yamaha receiver set up with wires running everywhere. Now all controlled from our iPhones. For instance now my wife can be in the Master listening to her favorite playlist while I’m outside cleaning the pool listening to mine. Now when we go out to the hot tub at night we bring along a phone, open the Sonos App, and just like that we have our entire music library (Apple Music or Amazon Prime Music) at our fingertips for our listening pleasure. I don’t know why I didn’t upgrade to Sonos sooner. It has provided us with the music and TV audio quality and flexibility we’ve been looking for.
flakes's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMI have a Sonos 5.1 system that I have been using for about 6 months. When the speakers are working the sound is incredible. They were easy to set up and they look nice in my living room. The app is a hot mess though. From my experience there are certain things that need to be done well. I need to be able to switch between sources ... TV, music, 2 computers, echo fairly quickly and I need to be able to move components (speakers, subs, etc...) between rooms fairly easily. The UX of the Sonos app fails so miserably at both these things that it is often easier to switch sound sources within other apps, like spotify or the apple preferences, than it is to use the Sonos App. As for switching components between rooms. My power failed in my apartment, and when it started up one of the Play:1’s and the Sub were not working and the app listed them as ‘?’. I tried unplugging them, I tried resetting them, eventually I managed to delete them from the app and reinstall them. However they got put into a different room as my other components and that room was not listed, nor can I move them from room to room, nor can I find a way to simply delete the entire setup and start over from scratch. Don’t know how the app got a 4.7 rating. It is a hot mess.
adoozie's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMWhen I browse “on this phone” on Sonos only a few of my songs and playlists from my phone show up on Sonos. Would love the fix if anyone knows it!
user12345678912345678911's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/20/18 11:56 AMBEST SPEAKER EVER PERIOD.
Xman gamestar's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMIt does not stay connected and skips songs after playing one for about 30 seconds. Very unreliable for an expensive unit. I wish it performed better. Ironically a typical Bluetooth speaker would work better.
RetLove's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMWe have lost all functionality with this latest update. Get your c*** together, Sonos. Your customers deserve a functioning app and product.
Jkbffdfhkkjbcf's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMWhy can I use most my other music apps without a problem but every update I’ve had problems using Apple Music. Not a big deal to most but I’m having reoccurring problems with Apple Music. And yes my app, software and music app are all up to date.
box127's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMConstantly stopping after one song, even when pressing “play all”. Works one out of 5 times. Cool idea but it’s executed very poorly.
MDI gardener's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMEvery time I try to use the speakers it seems there is a new update, I need to reconnect the speakers to wireless (with Ethernet cable), then I can’t access controller without updating my software, creating an account or modifying existing one. I wouldn’t recommend purchasing Sonos to anyone, wish I hadn’t given some as gifts, back when they worked well and sounded good
Uvmcats84's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMSonos was 5 star but now 1 with so money glitch with 9.0 and beyond. No lock screen with AirPlay, skipping with AirPlay etc.
Not Home Alone's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMI love my Sonos system my housewarming party was s hit!
Kevin kinnett's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMI had the Polk system at first, did not work at all. Very difficult. Had it 3 days and returned. Went with Sonos. Never looked back great system ,,,,it works
DLR Connecticut's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMAfter spending hours on trying to troubleshoot the issue (based on Sonos website), our Sonos One is basically unusable. It’s incredibly frustrating. If you call Sonos, you are out on hold for an hour.
freeman123's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMSoftware eventually works right? I find I use AirPlay more and more
ThadVT's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMBedeviled by ear fatigue for way too long in our master bedroom, we started looking hard at the Sonos One for relief. Wow! Just what the doctor ordered. Silky, smooth audio streams delivered with the right power and the right clarity. And a no fuss, paint-by-numbers setup helped the medicine go down that much easier. After hearing the first one, we doubled the dose for double the pleasure ... in stereo. Couldn’t order the second Sonos One fast enough. The system ties to all our devices, including Apple TV, and connects to a slew of content. We have a 10 year old, 40” Samsung flatscreen, and adding stereo sound with this level of fidelity made for nothing less than a transformative moment. Stunning sound with even highs and heavy distortion-free bass. The Sonos One represents our first foray into the world of Alexa. And so far, so good. Ripping our old Samsung sound bar off the wall never felt so good. Crystal clear WiFi stereo - that streams as smoothly as it sounds - is just the therapy our tired ears needed. You really can listen as well as you hear — with a speaker at least as good as a Sonos.
Phenris's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMNow it has lots of glitches, podcasts will abruptly stop and start over from the beginning. Really annoying.
SanfrAnon's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMIf you buy sonos, expect to continually be forced to run updates. Between the app and sonos hardware, if either is out of sync, forget backwards compatibility, welcome to a world of compliance. I have various devices that I use to connect to sonos, and this effectively blocks a wide range of features within the product. It’s very disruptive. The last thing you want is a 3-5 minute pause in playtime or to schedule around and plan around these inevitable and frequent updates. It’s mind-boggling that in todays tech world, sonos engineers can’t come up with a stateless solution for minor version support across basic feature-sets. I could understand being a few major version behind, but that simply isn’t my case. Their engineers seem to be extremely out of touch with customer experiences with little attention to what impacts their customers most.
Best Ragman's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMWe built a new house with speakers in every room, one of my best friends was telling me about Sonos, went to Best Buy, ordered the system, it is amazing. Thanks, Sonos!!!!!!!
xyzadjbcrub's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/19/18 12:35 PMHard to understand
Sage 06's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMA system that requires many phone calls to make it operational. My system is non operational now.. Had five or more down times to date. New app is not useable by Chrome or Firefox. I give up.
Reverse!'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMUsed to work perfectly- now it skips and drops out all the time for like 2 years now- I have six speakers it’s a total nightmare. No tech can help me, and no, it’s not because I need to leave my phone unlocked. 🙄
Violet9876's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMThe Sonos 5 looks nice on my shelf but it I actually want to listen to music I use my cheap $60 Sony Bluetooth speaker because while not attractive, it at least actually plays music. This app is impossible. Songs start and stop at random, you can’t make playlists out of music you have on your phone (seriously... about this... what the f*ck???) if you use the volume control it will completely ignore you but then 20 minutes later will suddenly change volume. Absolute garbage.
dchimm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMI hate that you force me to update, then you disconnect all my music with every update. This time, I lost my second speaker- now I have to try and recover / re-add to the first. Please test your update more thoroughly. Update: new update to fix this issue was pushed quickly. Added one star. Second update: after downloading and installing update that fixed issue, I received an email telling me it was my connection and link to a document to read. Really!?!? Removed two stars!
g vszsfd bn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMThis is a great app, but it needs to be shown on the lock screen. Its frustrating to open your phone, find the app, and wait for it to load to actually pause or skip a song. I also think it would be wonderful if Sonos could stream music from the internet!
LisaIHan's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMWe love our Sonos. The sound quality of the speaker is fantastic. We use it daily and rarely experience any issues with the app functionality.
Powelltravel's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMThe sound is very good. It it not easy to navigate the program. I have to call for help at times. Recently it was working fine until an update caused it not to connect to our network. About 3 different technicians did not know how to fix that.
Malibu Fred's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMYou are listening to a great song on your phone or Spotify and totally digging it. Then, the song randomly skips in the middle to the next one. It is infuriating. There are suggestions on forums that do not work or are highly technical. The Sonos site says they are working on it. Pandora and music from the Sonos site seems to work but that is not good enough. This is a major defect and it should be disclosed before the store and they take your money. I will be returning it.
M5432111's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMWhat can I say other than without my music from this source life would be empty.!!!
Sonos bad boy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMIt is a daily challenge as the WiFi is a constant headache
Mhuffnw's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/18/18 12:31 PMIt makes zero sense why this app should skip so much. There has to be something just very wrong with how it fundamentally sends data across the internal wireless network. Like zero buffering or something deeply s***** like that. If I play all speakers, it skips less. But that’s a huge waste of power. I’m sorry I bought this.
cd nj hello's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMThis is a great concept. My one complaint is too often the app freezes when I want to adjust the music. This is especially common when I use the iPad.
CDubs66's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMIf you want easy to use, great sounding music system...SONOS IS IT!!!
SRSch's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMGlitchy. Doesn’t play our music lists. Gets overwhelmed w large music library. Constant resetting of system speakers. Annoying.
gregluv9's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMThe UI is problematic. Have been using for a couple of years and it has slowly evolved to something less intuitive than it used to be. Something as simple as switching between TV and a speaker grouping is not obvious at all (where it once was). This shows up in situations where I want to play a playlist (day, holiday music) while having the sound off on a football game. Switching to the TV is can be done by changing volume with the TV remote. Switching back to the playlist in resuming is...not obvious in the least. If I do figure it out I generally have to restart the shuffles playlist. Anyway, it works but frustration marrs the experience.
new worlds;3's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMSonos is some of the best speakers I had app is great to
Ezra5's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMReceived a note that the app was updated recently when I opened the app today. After two years of flawless performance when playing on my sound bar from my iPhone, suddenly now it disconnects after about three or four songs. This has never happened before. Internet is fine; no problem with playing to a JBL speaker via Bluetooth. I’ve reset router, modem, and the playbar - still cuts off after several songs. All indications point to a problem with this latest update to the app. 2 stars only because it’s been flawless until now.
fshprnzz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMThe best sound and so easy to use with app
538645's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMI am stuck in a Sonos update loop. I have updated to latest IOS- no help. Very frustrating
Dal deserto's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMIt’s my speaker and I would like to listen to my music or listen to Spotify ( with advertising )when I want ! Or maybe watching and listening YouTube videos??? It’s not Sonos problem if I have a subscription with someone!
justonemore's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMMy system of over a dozen Sonos components worked flawlessly until the 9.2 update of October 2018. When playing from my iTunes library, the speakers have 5 seconds of L-R channel dropouts whenever I start or resume a song. The 9.3 update didn’t fix anything. Obviously everyone here is super píssed. Waiting for a Developer Response to all these complaints.
dchimm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMI hate that you force me to update, then you disconnect all my music with every update. This time, I lost my second speaker- now I have to try and recover / re-add to the first. Please test your update more thoroughly.
kcmahan's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMCurrently my app keeps asking me to add a speaker. It says my account does not exist and will not let me control my Sonos. Then suddenly, it will work again, although it is only controlling the sound bar and not the rest of my system.
billcaywood's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMSyncing is easy - but 1. I cant play files from my phone without using and aux cord. 2. The app isn’t accessible from the lock screen. So, you have to go into your phone and locate the app, wait for it to load then pause. Kinda inconvenient. Again, connecting and setting up is pretty intuitive and simple, but not being able to quickly access the app is a bit of a let down.
anonannarbor's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMThis used to be good but now it has an enormous bug. If you leave it as the active app while the iPhone goes to lock mode, when you unlock the iPhone the app has crashed. It looks like it is open, but none of the controls work. Every time I unlock the iPhone, I have to close and reopen the Sonos app (and wait for it to go through its boot up routine) to be able to use it. This should be a really basic thing for an app to handle, but it just can't.
JPTrnthm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMConsistently stops play regardless of app update.
SS123412341234's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMUser experience has gone downhill. Cannot spontaneously enjoy music any longer. Sonos forces you to update software so often that it takes the fun out of starting it up and just playing music. What a mess!
Apps for nick's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMI have thousands of dollars worth of Sonos equipment that has turned into pile of junk because now all of a sudden things don’t work the way they use to. App is constantly loosing connection. When you change songs there is a unbelievable amount of latency now. Many times songs don’t play. They will literally go bankrupt if they don’t fix this pronto. This is their bread and butter. I even bought the latest Sonos amp, I have two play:5s with Subwoofer. I have playbar and 2 Sonos 1 in 5.1 setup with sub. I have two Sonos play:1 in bedroom. I am panicking because I have several holiday parties scheduled at my house and I am completely dependent on Sonos system. I could easily play any music I wanted from any service and I bragged about Sonos a lot. Now I am going to have to eat my words and afraid my parties are going to be ruined. My home is laterally Sonos showroom and it is definitely going to do unrepairable damage to their reputation and ruin my holiday parties. Worst part is their customer support is non existent. I called in there was an over an hour wait. Now they are closed on weekend. They make y’all claims about 24/7 support don’t believe any of that. They ask you to post in their forums and hope someone like a power user replies.
Kayakbabe yawls's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMSonos discontinued the ability to use the first remote controller they made and sold without telling anyone. All customers lost the ability to use the very expensive controllers they purchased . There is a second generation controller they made which is fabulous and still works. People can visit my home and controller the music without having to let them into my wi-fi network. I have had more than enough viruses and such from letting people use my network in the past that I simply do not allow it anymore. So the ability to have a remote hardware control device is a godsend. I am super happy with it. In fact, I bought three of them. I am seriously careful about updates and the day Sonos decides to have the 2nd generation controller not be supported, will be the day I do not do anymore updates. SO.... auto update... is not for me. And the face that they are not listing exactly what is in the updates... well...that is just lazy. Since this system works over our home network with all our other devices and computers which we bank with and do other private things with... SONOS needs to tell us what is in these updates.
hernahhhhluvsbagels's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMMy family has been a frequent costumer of Sonos, with over 5 speakers all over our house in a variety of sizes. For the past 6 years since we’ve gotten our first speaker, the sound bar, we have been very pleased with our (expensive, yet) great quality speakers. They will cut out every now and then, most noticeable during movies, but that was only a slight annoyance compared to what we are dealing with now. Perhaps it is part of a new update (we have the latest version, so the app being outdated should not be an issue), or simply the app crashing, meaning it will be back up and running within a week hopefully. But, since this morning, Sonos has let us down. An overall irritation, disappointment, and not what we paid for! The speakers (rooms) have been unable to group, and some speakers are silent, despite the loud volume it is set on (they are also all plugged in). We could select a song or artist or radio to play, but the speaker will simply not react whatsoever. Being a loyal patron of Sonos, my family and I are frustrated and hope this issue is resolved quickly, especially with the holidays. But to those interested in purchasing one or more Sonos speakers, they have overall been a great investment for our family. We have been spoiled with these great speakers scattered around the house, making it so that when they suddenly fail to do what they are supposed to, it is especially aggravating.
JoelScoles's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMI used to be able to change the volume from my lock screen. This was a useful feature when watching tv. Now I have to unlock my phone and open the app to change the volume. I used to be able to turn down the tv with my Apple Watch. You should only be adding features, not taking them away. At least add it as an option in settings.
Gbguadd's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMI can’t get them to play together anymore. The app is full of glitches
GothamSenator's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMLove some of the features of the app (e.g. controlling specific speakers), hate that one of pretty much forced to use the app and use its interface which isn’t the best by any stretch.
32771's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMWherever you guys are trying to do whit Sonos you guys are making a mess, I can’t even play the music from my library, and yes and upset about it
TAGwoodlands's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/17/18 12:21 PMSonos is very good except it does not allow the purchaser to adjust the volume level on EACH individual song. This causes volume level spikes on playback for some songs in a playlist. It does use some selected meta data but not all music formats are supported. The software really needs to be fixed or provide a plug-in to allow for individual volume level adjustment for EACH song. This would improve the product greatly and allow it to be competitive with streaming audio where their software does this automatically.
wolfygirl2892's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMThe app is the best one I do not know about you but I like it
musichouse123's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMFor the most part it works as expected. Unfortunately they did some upgrade a few months ago and now you cannot play songs off iPhone properly. They skip or just stop playing. Many people have this same complaint online but so far no response for a fix. Hope soon!
Ringsided's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMWhat I enjoy about this app is that it fails in a different way each time I attempt to use it again in a fit of either forgetfulness or insanity. I’m pretty sure I’d have better luck getting my Uber app to connect my Sonus One to my home wireless...
skyblue12123's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMunable to connect message within app all the f*cking time.
justmythoughts2's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMYou can’t play all of your music from your Apple library. I can only play about half of my collection. So this is really just for streaming pandora or Spotify. Also, with the play bar hooked up to my TV, both speakers play by default which creates an echo... I have to manually turn off sound from the TV every time. And yes, I’ve followed all the directions...
ncadman's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMConstant updates and keeps cutting out during parties.
Sonos Fan 100's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMFor the last several updates, the performance of the app on an Android OS has been unstable. Performance is great on iOS devices, but on the Android, the app crashes consistently and is almost unusable.
Rockataier's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMApp updated and now I can’t play music from my phone. What gives
erikjenny's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AM10 great years as a 7 unit Sonos owner. Most recently acquired their subwoofer which adds a lot of depth to the dual Play5’s in our living room. Never had an issue or problem!
Latin Paratrooper's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMThe app cuts off after playing one song, is not intuitive, and does not play well with iTunes. Love the speaker, hate the app. I wish Sonos would just focus on simplicity, usability and real functionality. Sonos is trying to be all things...they should just concentrate on being a great speaker
Jerryd55's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMAll of sudden Sonos does not Cary SiriusXM. No way to contact customer service. Not even sure they have one.
Magurk1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMWorks good except ITunes, they need to fix it Does not show all music on I Pad Also I cannot get Alexa to work on the Sonos play 1
Swag Muffin...'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMNo real equalizer or sound imaging. In Apple Music services there are no letters on the right side of the screen when you scroll and the alphabetical sorting considers the word The in front of the band name.
Blackcat Flyboy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMI’ve owned many sound systems over the years. Sonos by far has been the best.
T. S. 1984's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMWe have four Sonos speakers and two users. Ever time we add a speaker only one of our Phones can control a speaker. My wife has control over all four and I can only use the most recent speaker added. My app doesn’t recognize the other speaker. A frustrating product if you have more than one user, with each using their own phone.
JPHZYX's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMWe have to reset EVERY time we want to change the volume. Fix this bug!
jaylbg2018's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMConstantly updating, worked good when new. Problematic lately
throwingdartsatphish's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMThe apps drops connection and requires unplugging the speakers to reset. Thumbs down
lissopalis's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMI love the speakers and the sound quality. I find it confusing how to save music, load music sources and how to easily use it time after time. We seem to lose settings, the speakers can unsynch and so on. This is however my typical with technology- so I accept this as a given. And likely I need to take time to “learn” how it works. I’m old school and just want to throw on my album, tape or CD- take your era pick. It used to be so easy.
Eddie90502's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMSpeakers are pretty good. Not the loudest but great sound quality. 3 stars for not being able to use YouTube with the app.
Joe135778746780975346890087's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/16/18 11:52 AMGreat if you have a big house and you like to listen to music.
Pk1310's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/15/18 11:49 AMSonos has turned in to garbage. EVERY time I connect to my speaker, I get one song if I’m lucky before it disconnects. Support is worthless. What I really don’t understand is I can connect to every other type of streaming device in my house with zero issues. So it’s not my phone and it’s not my network. It’s Sonos. Plain and simple. Fix your software issues and I’ll give you five stars. I’m not the only one that has this issue. Check internet reviews and you’ll find others with the same issue. Save your money, or invest in a system and company that actually works, and will acknowledge problems when they develop bad code.
Compromisse1987's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI had my Sonos play for 2 years, set up was tedious but fairly easy but the Sonos app is very inconsistent. There will be days when it works as expected but other days it is impossible to play anything through the speakers. The most common problems include not finding the sonos speaker, not able to connect to networks and not able to browse music, these problems occur even when your internet/wifi connection is working well. In addition, changing to a new modem/router is a very painful process due to the large variety of errors that one can and will encounter during the process, specially if Sonos is working with Alexa. Finally remember the inherit limitations of the systems... only can play music through the sonos App or Alexa and connectivity is limited to ethernet and WiFi (no Bluetooth, no jack connector). Despite the software/app is lousy when it works it is a nice speaker.
Dave_3d's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMInconsistent connection to the same speakers in my living room..
megan5986's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI started having trouble over a year ago now their support page even says it doesn’t work well with iOS
CruzBautista's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMApp is much easier to navigate and use everyday. I’m also enjoying the connectivity with Alexa!
Qwsdghgyifyohff's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMApple Music does not work on Sonos. I get all of my music from Apple Music and kind of mad. Can’t jam out anymore. They should partner with Apple.
google assist ant's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
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Macklive's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMSonos Sound Systems are the perfect marriage of sound and design.
Thee Fishsticks's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMBased on commercials I thought I could just turn on whatever was on my phone in any room I wanted. The application always says it needs updating when I launch it. Then once that hurdle has been passed, it never syncs up with what is actually downloaded on my phone or iPod. The application will show multiple icons of the same podcast with various episodes listed under each. Confusing. Fix your application already! This has been going on since I bought the system about 3 years ago. It was expensive. I’m annoyed with you, Sonos.
Digitaltuner's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMHave not had it working in a year plus. Hundreds of correspondences and calls with Sonos. Continually skipping songs and losing connections. Many software issues and cannot have apple airplay in any other component in your system. I have 6 speakers, boost, and a connect, and have tried everything and like many others I still have ongoing issues. If you have many WiFi connections, AirPlay, and want a great system in your high end system I would suggest something else. They have no solutions other than turning of my other ‘smart’ AV components/receivers/TVs and that does not work either. Very frustrating and I have thousands into this system.
Jetsfan1963's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI knew I had to have these speakers when I first saw one .
wb yeates's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMAlways striving to be better.
Johnny Heavens's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMIf you don’t have friends and love to maintain your sound system in your spare time then Sonos is for you. If you like simple and easy to get at sound in your home/office...find something else because that is no longer Sonos. Just browse the support site to get a taste of this for yourself. There was a time not long ago that I would have woken the kids up early on a Sat. morning. Dressed up nice and been happy to be canvassing your neighborhood simply to share the greatness of Sonos. Today I would point you to some of the new Bose systems or even the Google or Apple “smart” speakers if you’re interested in being speaker stalked. The latest piles of code that is the so is app have done nothing to add to the experience. Sure there are a bunch of music services you’ll never hear of outside of the app but that’s it. If you just bought the speakers then consider alternatives during your return window. The Sonos app used to be simple and clean and for a few years I’ve continued to add Sonos in all the places and told all the people how great it was. No longer. The speakers/hardware are as good as always but late versions of the app have simply piled on clutter, useless layers, and usage complications. Such as requiring an email to use the app that simply take away from the experience. Now aside from the creep of garbage and complexity into the app, a while back Sonos forced an update that requires you to login to the app with an email and there no way to roll back to the days of sanity where one could simply open the app (or even invite a guest to do so) and start playing music anywhere in the house from anywhere else’s in the house. Now you must login. The scam they sell when you call support is that this is for “security”. Security for what? If you can access my Sonos then I have already given you the private WiFi credentials that let you see the speakers on the network. If I must sign in then I’m actually becoming less secure because now my account info is available anywhere I’m signed in. They aren’t protecting my music. In reality they now force everyone to use my music service accounts because they can’t add their own without my signing in. This means that they get to s**** up my playlists and channels rather then adding their own. They aren’t protecting my ID. In fact now they collect it for ZERO gain in functionality to us the user. Worse, I have some Sonos at the office and at an AirBnB and gone is the ability to let people simply enjoy the sound. Now it’s an administration task that must be maintained. A Guest or employee wants to use their own pandora, Apple Music, or Spotify? Tough luck unless I’m there to sign in and help them add services. If I’m already signed in then even better, now they have access to modify my profile and settings logged in as me. Kids run an update at home and I’m not there...option A nothing works until I get home...option B I give them my password. Again this is for “security”? The AirBnB is not only had the Sonos removed but is replaced by a Bose that simply lets a connected user/device (an iPad we leave available) or easily play your music to the available speakers. Easy as it should be. Sonos-I have dozens of speakers and have sold dozens more for you but shame on you for taking away the simplicity of the system. You have modified the experience to less then what we paid for and if I could return every single one of my speakers then I would. If you want to “protect” settings in the Sonos app then require an OPTIONAL PIN or login to update the speakers but remove the requirement to login simply to connect to the controller. You have taken functionality away. Not added to it and your own support site is drenched in this same sentiment. Go back to simple and honest.
Stick555's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI love my sonos players and use them all the time. Every time you release an update you tend to make the experience worse for the user. It use to be a much simpler controller. Why did you get rid of the controls from the lock screen? Now every time I want to do anything I need to open the app. Awful experience. Please bring back the lock screen controls like every other media app has.
Sonos letdown's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMThe app is unusable if I want to listen to the music library on my phone unless the phone is left unlocked. When the iPhone locks there are no audio controls from the lock screen and the music skips making the app unusable, and consequently making the Sonos sound system is bubcus in my opinion.
Saehappyone's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI am renting an apartment that has the Sonos system already set up. I love how easy it is to use. I do wish the sound fidelity of the speakers was better, and also I’d like to be able to adjust the bass and treble levels.
Snowgrill's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMAs said above, there have been a few occasions when the app skips to the next track or podcast when playing files from the phone.
igod69m's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMThis is a good app, unfortunately...... A few months ago there was an update that totally s****** up being able to listen to SiriusXM over WiFi. Anytime I try to use SiriusXM on my sonos, it says “connection to SiriusXM was lost”. No it wasn’t. Exit the sonos app, works fine. I never have an issue using SiriusXM on my phone except when trying to play it over my sonos system. Come on guys, fix it!!! I have $3,000 worth of sonos equipment, I keep getting more, but I can’t use it for what I want 50% of the time....
Walking dead is awesome's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMWould give 5 stars but they need to add Spotify!!!
mm44mm44's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMLove my Sonos when not skipping or stopping. Great sound quality. Literally, just stopped while typing. Wish I could trade it all in. Unfortunate.
jaboudro's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMReally bummed when the ability to control audio was removed from a locked iPhone.
Todd_925's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI’ve been collecting Sonos for a year now and I have been really impressed with how sleek and simple things are. Other reviewers have mentioned that the app has become clumsy and complicated, maybe there are some improvements that could be done, but you are just a swipe or button away from any setting you want. Not sure if they have a capacity issue for learning new things or what the issue is, but I’m normally a pretty critical judge and this works well for me. Had an issue with air play being choppy, visited the Sonos forums and found out setting up Sonosnet by direct wiring one speaker would solve it and reduce network traffic on my router and it worked perfectly. To mention my favorite features of this app, we have multiple users, devices and music accounts and it works flawlessly. Choosing between Spotify, Pandora or just different accounts on either is easier than I would have imagined. Operating from multiple devices, also easy as it gets. You can see what is currently playing and where from all devices at the same time and control from any of them. One request for Sonos to improve.... The explicit filter is set on Pandora, but doesn’t carry through to Sonos, so we’ve had a few embarrassing moments during family gatherings with kids present.
caliminneapolis's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMI bought 2k of sonos units for the WiFi 10 mths ago. For home theater. I’ve had issues with working and not working month to month. Even reset all units and powered down my house!? Finally called Sonos support csr suggested a boost will help. I didn’t buy it....It’s been a week now since the conversation and sonos has been just like when I first connected it. As soon as I get home the surround sound is automatically available. I’m reluctant to update now that its working perfectly.
newestnickname's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMLook at their support page
extremelyfrustrated1021's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMIssues every time I want to play music. I now have 7 rooms on Sonos. Main issues: music cutting in and out. Rooms not appearing in my Sonos App. I have tried all the reboots, unplugging, and still so many issues. Very, very frustrating.
Nicki8000's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMThe last update is not what I would expect from Sonos which is overall an awesome product. Can’t add speakers because it says update your app (which is already up to date). C’mon Sonos, push a hot fix out ASAP. This must be embarrassing for y’all so please fix it quickly.
jamesduncan80's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMGreat except for the Alexa app. It plays one song and stops
Deuce8000's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMSpeaker sounds great!!! However the app is awful! It’s a challenge to use and unless you have the new version speaker you can’t connect it to YouTube or other music apps unless Sonos partners with them! UE MegaBoom is a much better option if you just want a great speaker that sounds great plus easier to use because you can connect to Bluetooth. I really want to love this speaker but I find myself using my Bluetooth speaker because my phone does a far better job of controlling the sound then this app. Sonos do yourselves a favor and stick to making speakers! Leave the apps to company’s that are far more qualified!
elliejudie's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/14/18 7:55 AMWe live in Florida and listen to WQXR FM, NY via SONOS I-Tunes all day. Love it! SONOS makes living in Florida perfect!
Benoit Family5's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMI have used Sonos for years and loved it but for the past 5 months have not been able to use my Spotify acct along with the app. It sure if it’s the new update.... the customer service at Sonos has been unhelpful, frustrating!
Sime 709's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMRecently, the Sirius XM application stopped working. I get an error message with every station, stating “No Longer Is Available on Sirius.” This is very inconvenient because I listen to Sirius every day on Sonos, or at least I used to. Besides that, I love Sonos. However, this is a very frustrating problem that I hope gets resolved quickly
Madrox616's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMThree days ago all SiriusXM stations stopped playing on Sonos. A message comes up that says “this station is no longer available”, for every SiriusXM channel. But the channels play perfectly in my car and online. I reported the issue days ago but as of today no resolution
Couple 9199's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMThe best part about the Sonos system is it easy to bring music to any room. It has wonderful Fidelity but would benefit from buying the subwoofer. The weakest part of the system is the undependable Alexa communications. The system seems to lose the connection with Alexa on a constant basis.
jfjfkdmdjskddofjbffb's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMMusic stops playing when the lock screen shuts down! Such a shame that I have 8 speakers in my home and a sound bar for the television this is my second review and the 6th phone call to support and you would think they would reach out to me to help!
US Grapes's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/13/18 12:02 PMSonos app works fine on my iPad & wife’s iPhone but not on my phone. Happens all of the time. On same wifi network, same OS...same iPhone model. So annoying!!!!
Safety Mike B's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMThe new version 9.3 wants to update the Sonos system but will not. Love my Sonos until the recent changes. I have tried all trouble shooting guidelines to no avail. Now it won’t even play. I find it difficult to believe you can only get tech support on Monday - Friday. Some of us have to work.
Thom Yorke's Lazy Eye's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMExisting alarms don’t show up unless I open and force close the app multiple times and I add a new alarm in a new time slot - then all of them appear. Otherwise it’s blank. Please fix this. I primarily use my Sonos as an alarm
hmjbhmhmjb's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMLove Sonos. I want em in every room in my house
Kubisuro's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMWish there were an easy way to switch the Beam out of TV mode and back to the music queue. The app or Beam don’t seem to remember where I left off in the music queue. I certainly don’t remember. A shuffle Albums (in track order) feature would be nice. I’m rocking out to Apple Music and using Air Play 2 for the One and Beam! Woo! Even shuffle songs of my entire Music library works. A few versions ago that crashed the app. Just got to be patient for the queue to load. Would be great if there were Siri shortcuts. Sonos devices ROCK.
ok2018909's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMLove it!!!!
GrkItalNY's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMWhile I love the sound quality, the program is horrible. Can not get it to play through an entire song. Usually around the 2min mark it skips to the next song. rinse and repeat.
For jeff😂's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMThe never ending updates are exhausting.
Benballs61's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMEasy to use and tremendous sound quality to boot!
DaBears704's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMStarts playing then stops, since last update wayyy worse. Please stop effing with something that works.
deversm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMAt a time when they face more competition than ever before, I've just about had it with the Sonos app. The hardware is great, but the software has never been more than average at absolute best. And this app is far removed from its best days, the latest "update" being the most infuriating of 2018. It seems to be a ploy to force the user to turn on automatic updates, as there appears to be no true update to install. Saying "no" to turning on automatic updates only takes one to the Sonos app on the iTunes store. Sonos would be wise to completely scrap their current software team and try something new before the whole company is relegated to the technology scrap heap along with other companies who couldn't evolve.
Greatawesomeyoullloveit!'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMMy husband got this for me as an early Christmas present, and I absolutely love it! My sister in law has one in her kitchen, and I love how she always has nice music playing. She told me she had a Sonos. We ordered that day. Set up was easy! I have been listening to Christmas music ever since! The piano is so clear that you think someone is actually playing live in the house! We have it in the doorway of the kitchen and living room, and it’s more than powerful enough to send sound into those rooms fully and even pleasantly all the way to the bedrooms! You will absolutely love it! I am just using it with Pandora!
Matt586794's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMConstantly fails, doesn’t save settings, and when its not failing it lags or skips. The very few and limited services that you can use thru this app like audible are not nearly as good as the audible app is on its own. The app alone makes it not worth buying the Sonos speakers.
MelbyY's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AM!
jSouldart's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMYou’ll never get my money again thieves.
willItryAgain's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMJust a little tired of the cut outs and the sound popping with static from speaker to speaker. Especially after updates.
Cary L. Adler's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMSimply the best way to stream music!
Chcad's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMReally enjoy the Sonos system. Would like to see easier navigation when changing from single room to multiple rooms. Otherwise I would highly recommend to all.
huhwhat1973's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI don’t know what’s been happening lately at Sonos but seems that every update anymore I need to ‘fix’ SiriusXM. Long time user getting frustrated here.
sb2uk's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI’ve had 2xSonos 1’s that I love. 4 years ;- no problem with the iPhone Sonos app controlling the speaker. In the last few months - the sheer number of situations where the iPhone won’t connect and the d***** ‘you’re holding it wrong’/‘have networking problems’ forum snarky comments are annoying. There is an issue here and I’d appreciate it it being addressed. In the interests of full transparency have a recent iPhone XS and it might be that, but everything else seems fine. Only the Sonos app seems affected. I can still get Spotify music by pressing play on the speakers I just can control them without literally power cycling my phone.
LJ EB's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMBest home sound system there is!!
Cyrndvm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMVery unstable lately, when shifting from one device to another, the app hangs up, also some speakers disappear from app, and sometimes will stop playing or wont right away start to play with the rest of the rooms.
Taaaaserfaaaaace's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI like just about everything with this app except for two things. First, there is no way to quickly jump to the letter of the artists. You have to scroll all the way down the list. It's a very minor thing but really annoying when you have such a vast library to go through. Second, for whatever reason, when using Soundcloud you have to select each song to play. When the song is over, it plays a song from another music source such as apple music. When I play my "likes" list on Soundcloud it doesn't go song to song like the rest of the music sources. That is a HUGE pain. Other than those two things I don't really have an issue with the app. I don't like having to use a certain proprietary app to use the speaker but it isn't too bad. I prefer just connecting and using a music app as with other speakers. I'm guessing it has something to do with how the speakers are connected and how they "talk" to each other. I only have one speaker for now but plan to get more in the future.
CM9924's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMThe app is rather inflexible on switching from the Sonos speaker to phone, and the connection delays are frustrating
wsc33's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMThe app is adequate but does tend to behave poorly on a sporadic basis. Pity that Sonos didn’t just channel it’s music through whatever player the client wishes to employ. We should be able to access our Sonos system from our phone or computer like we would any Bluetooth device. Sonos would appear as output option which would offer a much wider array of sources that could be played thru Sonos and give us a much larger number of players to use to play our music.
Gail-Oakdale's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AM*Love* my Sonos!
B9366's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMIs anyone now having troubles connecting to SiriusXM? I have tried everything but every time it says station no longer available. It says that for every station.
datkinson69's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMIt seems like I have to go through an update once a month and it always loses my sound bar & bass. Great when it works but the updates cause too many problems...
DjangoR.'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI have enjoyed my Bose docking station for years. Now I enjoy wonderful sound throughout our entire home. I can adjust the volume in each location or completely disable a speaker if needed. I love the phone app. It puts all of the controls right at your fingertips!!
classicMN's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMWorked great for a few months. Now skips songs, and stops playing. Cant make it through a podcast either! Stinks! Would rather just plug into a speaker at this point.
efkc's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMConstant blinking...it’s an elegant design - high tech made simple. But lately for no apparent reason not wanting to cooperate. Restart, deleting and reloading the app, resetting WiFi Won’t play via the amp to all zones. Contacting service, hope we can straighten it out.
BillyBoy44's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMHaven’t every really liked using the sonos app over ITunes where I have over 20gb of my music and playlist saved on. I have been using the sonos app recently for my time share. I am using the sonos play bar and sub. Poor rating because the app keeps stoping one to two songs into playback. I have to then either spect the next track or close out of the app and start again. I have the latest update installed too. Sure is a pain when you just want to hit play and enjoy!
etmmerdz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMDon’t even bother looking for anything else. Just get Sonos and enjoy!
masse14's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI opened the app this week and it prompted me to update, which I did (confirmed I am on correct version) and I can’t get past the need to update page, it keeps prompting me to update and then says I don’t have any updates. Now I can’t use to play holiday music:( Grrrr.
Jacquey O.'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMCustomer Service not 24/7 and ANYTIME you change ANYTHING it is a MAJOR ordeal. Sonos I wasted precious hours of putting up my tree listening to Nat King Cole because I needed to unplug my Sonos to plug in my Christmas tree lights. Of course it wouldnt come back on and I trouble shouted and Googled everything aaa and your customer service department is closed? Really?!? What a buzz kill!! Going to a easy breezy Bluetooth speaker thank you very much!!
spo1977's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI never thought I would go wireless but now that I have, no looking back. Looking forward to adding a subwoofer. My music sounds great. Please make it possible to run tv through speakers. Thanks.
wishing I bought a Bose's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI hate this app with a passion. The menus are convoluted - you can’t use any of the Music services without buying premium products. It won’t even allow me to access the music on my iPhone- the speaker is nice - but the app has made me deeply regret buying it. I wish I had purchased the bows. They are infinitely easier to work with. I would never recommend this to a friend.
DLpuck's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMAwesome system. Everything from wired speakers to TV’s to Sonos 1,3 &5. Love it.
KMac012's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMClick add new speakers, says it needs updated, opens App Store, its already updated (today), so it says “open” app, click open, go to add speakers, rinse and repeat. Deleted app and reinstalled, restarted phone, same thing
thadn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMSonos messed up my party!!. I have used Sonos for years. Everyone o now has Sonos because of me. I’m sorry to say don’t anymore. Can’t get music to play continuously without it stoping. Very annoying. Tried every recommendation out there, upgraded my internet etc. it was after one controller update and everything went down the drain. Please bring it back. You will loose us if you don’t. I had a big party set up speaker in very room and it was a nightmare.
emullett's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI love Sonas, however it’s seems to be going down the tubes. Always disconnecting, can’t play music, can’t find rooms. They linked w pandora but that is worse. For the price of this system it should work all the time. Seems all the lower price players are taking their toll and I am getting ready to move over too. Not good considering I have over $2k in speakers in two homes.
Frustrated Sonos Owner 152's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMBe advised that the Sonos system does not support fully playing music. It has a “sample system” where it only plays the intro 30 seconds before fast forwarding to the next song. Given the amount of times we’ve asked tech support about it, I can only conclude they believe this is a feature not a big. In conclusion, do not purchase tuis if you want to use it for music.
annabella48's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMThis latest update has disabled all my music subscriptions (Pandora, Amazon, etc.). I’ve gone into settings and reauthorized multiple times and it kicks them out again after half a song or less. Fix it!
Fruit ninja Garrett's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI have Sonos throughout my home and it is without question and incredible sound system! I highly recommend Sonos to anyone!
Ibjbf's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMCan’t understand all of a sudden it’s stopping mid stream. What a pain. Spend good money and have to put up with this..update do not buy a Sonos system. It is a fraud. The music keeps stopping both on my streaming and iPhone. Try calling tech support is a waste. They have an issue that can’t solve.going to toss and go back to Bose.
tiredofSonos's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMShuts itself Off ALL the time. Problems all the time. NOW not playing, says my Sirius XM stations aren’t On Sirius XM- ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER !!!
1marantz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI have 3 Sonos. Continues to lose connection or to get one to play correctly I have to disconnect the other two.
Mark92127's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI’m stuck in a loop. Tells me I need to use the latest version, sends me to the App Store. In the App Store the only option is to “open”; no “update” option. Just want to play music. Frustrating
Dlbdbadba's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMI do not need or want app updates as often as you push them down. I couldn’t careless about your “bug fixes and new features.” The updates disconnect everything, I get it working again, and 3 days later there’s another update that improves my experience literally not one iota. I just want the music.
mbrzzy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 12/12/18 11:04 AMHave had sonos for years - and just bought 2 more speakers -but becoming less and less enamored- constant prompts to update app for no clear reason. and every update seems to lead to more problems - songs won’t play through, keep freezing. Sourcing from my turntable especially seems to lead to inconsistent signal with frequent pauses and dropouts. I don’t want to be able to talk to my sonos - just want to stream from itunes and from my turntable without constant problems. please fix this.
jbbraun22's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWish it played longer than four hour sets and didn’t require an unplugging to reset device- other than that #Awesoneness
sqo0ba_steve's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWhy is there still no DARK MODE throughout the entire app? It's actually worse that the NOW PLAYING page is dark while the others are bright white. Please add a switch for us. Please? Also, really need a better way to browse Spotify... Or can you help them to better integrate speaker grouping? And letter index assisted scrolling. That's what I want for festivus... (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
DackinaBox's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMThe speakers are constantly offline and not able to be found by the app but perfectly capable of playing through Alexa and by simply hitting the play button. Fix your software Sonos.
Carolyn of Dublin's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWhenever I try to group rooms half the time they don’t show up to group.
Jimt29's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMThis app is so bad it makes me want to return the speakers. Lacks continuity, it should have more controls on a page instead of one control in triplicate. Needless sub menus, settings where they don’t make sense and like that. Two stars because it does work. Reminds me of programs from the 90’s. There is a lot more to change to make it truly user friendly but I don't see writing here will make a difference. I will be rooting for you, though. Your speakers and direction the company is going is great. 11/24/18 I recently wrote to support for help 4 times for the same issue. I got 4 conflicting answers and each answer not only didn’t address the issue but the answers were in conflict from paragraph to paragraph. That said, I do believe they mean to be helpful.
Ezra-I like music's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI think that sonos is a great app. You can play so much music!
onefelipe's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMYesterday the app worked great. I searched for something in Apple Music. Found it and played great. Today nothing. It just keeps asking me to add it to my Sonos
TinaHenn's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI like the Sonos system in our home, but we use Apple Music Family Plan, and only one Apple ID can be used. This is really limiting. My kids want to be able to play their downloads, my husband his, but only my ID, and therefore my phone and downloads, are recognized by Sonos when it comes to Apple Music.
hey youl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI love this song because it is so good and peaceful and I rate this song a five stars
ronniet2218's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMThe interface with Spotify is klunky. The search doesn’t work well. All around not a great ap. Clearly a hardware company making software.
PattiLynn1130's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI agree that it was better before. Too many updates and confusing
justonemore's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSystem of 12 speakers worked great before the October 2018 version 9.2 update. Now unable to resume from pause or start playing without prolonged dropouts and delays. Fix this please. UPDATE: The November 2018 9.3 update has the same problems. Speakers. Still. Sound. Like. This.
HelpMe77's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMAgree with previous posts about app deterioration. Why are they making it more difficult to use the system?
sloanLA's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSince they implemented AirPlay 2 I cannot get this app to work properly. Crashes every single time I use it for the past 6 months.
J3oe's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMThe speakers are great. The app is terrible. It works slowly. Any time there’s an update the app stops working until you download it. It’s not intuitive. Huge pain.
Adamforpresident's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMCool, and now you can’t add speakers bc “app needs to update” after it’s already been updated.
Mekstl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMEasy to use ...... great sound !! Plan to buy more speakers for more rooms !!
seek great sound's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWe have never been happier with our Sonos system throughout our home .. have multiple speakers and love the ability to listen to sync music or separate music in each room
Ryanisheartless's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSo let me say that I love my SONOS system and wouldn’t trade it for anything. This app, however has some issues that have been ongoing and need to be resolved. First: Apple Music Playlists Only playlists that I have created myself are accessible via the sonos app. The Apple Music curated personal mixes are not able to be accessed and an error happens any time I try to load them no matter which way I navigate to them within the app. Second: when scrolling through the artists view within the Apple Music section, there used to be the sidebar to the right with the alphabet that could be used to quickly jump to a certain letter in the alphabet. That has been gone for some time now and makes it extremely inconvenient to find a particular artist when you have a huge Apple Music library like I do. Last: controls for toggling repeat/repeat all/shuffle should be directly on the play screen. An extra menu just to get to those is completely unnecessary. I thank you again for building an amazing product, and I look forward to seeing what future releases hold for both hardware and software!
bclb3753's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI often get an error message that I can’t connect to Spotify or any of the other music sources, and can’t play music.
Emmatorpederson's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI use sonos every night to listen to my music. Great product! Also in the event that I can’t get a record to play I search it on sonos.
FeckYourNicknamesJustWork's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI can’t play anything via Spotify, because Sonos insists that the connection is lost.
kleighg74's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMComplicated to set up, continue to get errors and can’t fix it. I’m good with computers and electronics and this was a gift for my elderly mother. She can’t figure it out and gets frustrated.
loal1964's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI love listening to music in my house However There is always a problem with the connection.
looses connection's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMLooses connection constantly when moving in and out of Wi-Fi zones in my yard.
KJohnsonMD's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSpeakers sound great when you can get them to work with the awful interface that has been crashing since the airplay 2 update! Almost useless to listen to music via iTunes because halfway through the song it skips to the next song. Please fix this Sonos, as you have ruined a great speaker!
gadgetgeek2's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI'm updating my review and deducting a star just because it's so annoying that the app or some other part of the Sonos system needs to update every other day. It feels like every time I'm in the mood to listen to music, Sonos is in the mood to force me to wait while it installs some update that doesn't apply to my equipment. The pathetic ios app and the constant updates afloat make it not worth using the system. I've been using the Sonos app for years, and it was easy and intuitive. I don't know what their design goals were for the new version, but now it's nothing but confusing and frustrating. I think I'm selecting to control music in one room but the app goes back to the original room. It's like you do everything in disconnected parts of the app instead of in a flow that makes sense. Sonos, please undo the update and give us or functionality back!! Original review: We've had Sonos components for a few years now, and they continue to add new features. I haven't ever felt like my initial investment in the parts was no longer current and I needed to upgrade. I can play from my own music library or Pandora or a huge selection of other sources, and they all sound great. And I love being able to control the sound in any room in the house from any of our iOS devices -- fantastic!
Dan from Canton, ohio's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMOnly 3 of 5 wired speakers have sound
Katzsdsu's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMDifficult to use. Not intuitive. Clumsy interface.
SajagWorld's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMOn the iPhone x, 95% of the time scroll by letter doesn’t appear when I open the songs list.
NickRindahl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMConstantly unable to connect to streaming music services. Considering switching to Apple HomePod.
ezracing's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMGet sound have loved it for 6 years now new update controller app to much going on need to be simplified again
JS20850's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI can’t add a speaker. Asks me to install update. I have the latest. Even deleted and reinstalled. Fix this please!
SBCpp's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI used to love my Sonos speakers which I bought about a year ago. When I updated this app a couple of months ago I found out that I can no longer use it to control my speakers and listen to my music unless I create an account and password with Sonos which was not required before. Because there was no way around this, and I did not appreciate this trick, I went out and bought an Apple HomePod. To my surprise, the sound quality of this little thing is better than my Sonos system. No more Sonos for me.
benleedscarson's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI don’t want to spend 5 minutes updating your software every time I want to listen to music.
NayNurs's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMDon’t like that I can’t find the channels I want to stream and can’t listen to YouTube etc. but the sound quality is worth it most days
Ggr4dy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWhom in the h*** did the design and interface for the latest update? The Windows 97 team? How in the h*** do you take something great and turn in into trash?
tobehealthy's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWe enjoy it but It is very flaky. Half the time it doesn’t work as expected. Needs better support.
Club 160's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSonos is great . The only thing I don’t like is the way my music library is separated between Apple Music & others
Teresa U's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI would like to use Sonos with any application not so limited like it is
Gdirhnshdkdbsv's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMOmg. Can I please listen without interruption? Seriously
mumbly79's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMLove the sound quality! App could be more user friendly. Takes a while to get used to navigating the app.
bearcat60's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI love my Sonos system. I have three Sonos speakers throughout the house. Have one with Alexa . In the summer I move one out by the pool.
Dani70023's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMSimply the best ... and nice shoot build on
Marist198's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMJust found out your co cannot be counted on to repair your products. I would never have bought these speakers if I knew you didn’t stand behind your products. Not looking for something for nothing, I would gladly pay. I will not buy any other Sonos products.
TheFrankie49's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMWhat a great hardware product, under the control of a very complicated and confusing control software. Almost always my goal is to turn speakers on and off in separate rooms, and control volume. Seems like every software update complicates this simple task. Looks like your software is designed by programmers for programmers, and not from a consumer user group. So, I mostly leave my remote speakers off, instead of trying to figure it out.
CyndyO's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMI love the tone of the Sonos speakers. The ap is easy to use and has lots of options. It’s great that I can take my house speaker anywhere I want in the home.
Sir Alan B'stard's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMDecent sound but this CONSTANT obsession with updating software that works fine is what will make me never to buy another Sonos device. I use the system infrequently and every time I decide to use it, it’s a song and dance of updates and reconnecting. If there a way to avoid incessant software rollouts I might be inclined to add more units but frankly after enduring this for more than five years I’m done.
Joericenyc's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 11/29/18 12:30 PMThe Sonos system is great but negotiating the app is a minefield of going back looking around and silly leads to nowhere. I guess we are stuck with it. Try changing your password on your Wifi. You need to be an engineer to reprogram the speakers. I watch the YouTube video twice and it didn’t work. I can’t connect back to my Echo. For some reason my entire house starts blasting my Music when I don’t have the app open. Give us a break. Great sound terrible software.
SueBee71's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMAmazing quality and great price. Easy to use. Highly recommend!
Chirojonnymac's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI have multiple Sonos speakers both at my house and office. Awesome product and easy to use app
sepibo's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMFinky finky software! Fed up with not being able to play my Spotify music.
theChamps's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMApp freezes, crashes, and songs skips. Also why can’t I put a play 5 and paired play 1’s in the same named room. Ridiculously expensive speakers. Wireless and sync is awesome. Please get you app issues worked out, if you are collecting crash dumps you get one each time I open the app.
ChrissyManor's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMSonos is a fantastic sound system. Great quality and excellent sound! Love it!!
Mikestan86's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMLove my Sonos system, app is great but I would like an option to control volume, tracks, etc without always having to open Sonos app. An iOS widget would be an easy solution to this.
3StarNickNamesalmostgone's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMProblems occur moving previously installed Play:1 Speakers to a different room in your house. True you can always group the rooms but you loose tuning and pairing features. Perhaps it’s an effort to sell more speakers. Everything else is perfect.
TiaEst's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThe set up it’s horrible, did not sync at all with my apple router, ask for a LAN connection, really? Really? Spent an hour, downloaded the app 10 times already, very frustrating! My google home works much better!!!
Stefan Petses's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI need to speak to someone at sonos who really knows what they’re doing so I could play videos off the sonos tube app and air play it off the TV, and have the sound come out of the sonos speakers. I need to speak with your top expert technician. Text me at 914-424-0694. Thanks!
Brian7690's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMEver since I’ve received my Sonos system any questions that I’ve had, any concerns that I had, the Sonos customer service team has been there to help me out professionally. Every family member and friend that has listen to my system has been wowed by the amount of clarity and deep rich sound of the Sonos speakers. I wouldn’t call this a review I would call this a complement!! Thank you again to all the Sonos team for making my ears have a unbelievably rich experience
aldi19876534's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMApp not working anymore after latest update. I hope it will get fixed quickly.
Kaiser1392's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMCannot get connect to connect. Shows on my account but not in controller.
AF7HG's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWorks well. Love Sonos and the app. Only minor annoyance is the pop up dialogue when adding songs to the queue — need a smoother experience.
suren1313's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI’ve had these 2 Sonos products for approx 2 years and I’m still amazed how incredible It sounds for being wireless. I’m NOT an audiophile by any stretch; however, for any typical average user- the sound is Siiiick. The playbar sounds incredible- it’s loud and clear. The base rattles the windows and it sounds like elephants rumbling through the house during action movies. ( bass is still less than half way turned up. I live in an average 2500 Sq foot 2 story home and you can hear and feel the base rumbling in every room. Did I say I’m amazed how awesome this is - especially being wireless? I’m eventually going to buy more speakers but this is more than good enough for now. I’d def buy this again. Great job Sonos.
Fergie n her pups's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMBest purchase I have ever made to listen to music in my home!!!
tomeola's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWith a single touch of the screen have the ability to adjust bass, treble and volume levels tailored to your individual taste for your favorite songs. Similar to stereo devices with equalizers. The one feature that would add a star to what is already excellent.
JaDe_in_atl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMIt had to be re added very often. Now it won’t connect at all and it’s not WiFi
mikekiks's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMCan’t stream amazon from two devices simultaneously—frustrating.
sfo user 666's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMStreaming services work well but playing music or podcasts from phone or tablet inevitably fails, and then when you try to restart it begins again from the start, which is incredibly annoying. Unless Sonos can improve this performance, its future is limited. We did not experience these problems the first few years. This problem only arose in the past year.
Lee Adams's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWe have tried every way advised to troubleshoot but our Sonos constantly skips 1/2 way through songs. I don’t recommend it.
SamanthaJames's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMDoes not play well with Apple Music or Apple products
$"&!'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWhat in the holly h*** happened ? New update flushed everything down the toilet. Awful.
shudderer's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMOpened the world of music and all its joy.
G4Monster's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMLove Sonos. Recommend it to friends and family. I struggle with the mobile UI. It takes much mental energy to think about what I want to do each time I use the app.
Girls!!'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMKeeps skipping mid-song on my iPhone playback. Will probably return the speakers.
morrison1182's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWith solutions that work for both new and old home audio systems, Sonos is the most efficient was to modernize your home audio. The user interface is intuitive making setting up/using a breeze. Thank you Sonos!
JonInAtlanta's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMAbsolutely unusable when it comes to playing music stored on the phone. The moment the screen shuts off it skips to another song, plays that for a bit then skips again, on and on. Sonos support forums have literally pages of people with this same problem but in the past 6-8 months the problem continues. I suspect they’ll never fix it as a means to force customers into buying newer airplay hardware.
Coolj692's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMVery bad update. Constant lag and skipping Music. Always freezes
edgy_memes_37 <---my ig's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMA lot of times i will try to use my Sonos speaker on Spotify but my speaker doesn’t come up on the device list and i have to go to the Sonos app and reset up my speaker in order to use it on spotify and it’s a long difficult process
mschultz's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMIt’s an okay app that enables you to control your Sonos system. One major flaw: NO OPTION (that I can find) to prevent screen lock. WHY?!
jutland norton's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMFeature should be addressed with Sirius and on demand should be more searchable.
review 4 u's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI really enjoy the great sound, but wish the system worked with my Eero mesh network. The Play 1 Left/Right cut out once in a while despite being on a conventional, dedicated wireless network.
LinkyGoomba's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThis app cuts songs off part of the way through. This needs to be fixed. Otherwise, the speakers are great, just wish I could listen to the whole song.
joacolla's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThe best music I have ever had at my home. Many rooms, garden and living room with exceptional quality of sounds. The Sonos 5 and subwoofer are quite magnificent. Thanks Sonos!!!
Job002's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMNot easy to reconnect and use Alexa, sound is great
warrior rabbit's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThe app sometimes has problems with snooze (which is problematic, anyhow). Or it will tell me it can’t find the connection, even though it’s connected and I can start/stop even if it’s telling me I can’t. Mostly it’s ok. There are some issues sometimes where the speaker won’t play the music selected, but that’s not an app issue.
ezaback's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI got my Sonos as a Christmas gift from my daughter and son-in-law a couple ... few years ago. I’m not really tech savvy and had a few reservations! But they know me better than I know myself apparently. It is so simplistic in it’s beauty. I LOVE IT! That is before the update. There’s so much functionality change. It’s not just fix a bug or two update. I’m disappointed! I’m gonna have to have the kids look into an update!
Loli63's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThis the best sound system we’ve had, having had BOSE in the past and others. The wireless feature is great, but more importantly you can move your speakers to different rooms with no effort and listen to music anywhere.
leegirl dc's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMBest investment! I’m a music lover so I really enjoy streaming through Sonos. The best!
Lovenitya's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI love this whole system- I connect it to my Google Home and my kids and I just love the sound! Watching movies and any music makes it a Experience
asingan's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMKeep on improving ! You have actually surprised me with ease of search !
jkgm's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMNot nearly as usable as the desktop app that they recently completely gutted. Bring back the desktop app since the mobile app doesn’t have equivalent usability.
Clarke McAllister's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMThe Sonos app is working beautifully. I really enjoy the control that I have over my song libraries and play back settings throughout the house.
Sbushlnzl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMI have the Sonos soundbar, 2 play one’s and two play 5’s. Trying to navigate the Sonos app to get them all synced up is a bit quirky and not very intuitive. I was able to get surround sound set up with the soundbar and two play one’s in the rear but cannot get all 5 working together, not sure if that’s possible and since I did not get a reply from Sonos support so I still don’t know. Will do more Googling and YouTube. Switching back and forth between music source and tv creates all sorts of issues, music defaults to sound bar and Play One’s when I only want to play through Play 5’s, I have to go into app and navigate around to turn off family room 2 and turn on family room. The sound of the speakers is ok but not $2000+ ok. I realize a lot of what you are paying for is the wireless convenience and technology but if it’s finicky to use and lacking technical support it’s probably not the best value proposition, just my opinion. In all fairness I probably should not comment on sound quite yet since my room acoustics are not great with high ceilings, hardwood floods and no rug or window treatments, new construction and still putting things together.
nootherncknamesavailable's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMLove music but wish way to alphabetize the genre
DSMGSX1's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/13/19 12:36 PMWhat’s with the c***** monochrome windows app? Looks like complete crap! Give us some themes we can choose from! Give us a color for the controller other than BLACK!
MikeMc1010's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMAfter like one song when streaming through iPhone.
xxxcvbnmkhgfduytpiwqqq's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMUnreliable. They quit supporting the controllers I paid $500 apiece for and now it’s making my iPhone and iPad lock up every time I try to play some music.
nanoguitar's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMIt is great when it works. When it doesn’t, you just have to accept that. It only spits out uninformative error messages like “unable to add songs to queue”. No suggestions for how to fix it. No directions for where to go for more info. Nothing. It just doesn’t work, and that’s it. But when it does work, it’s great.
Laurap1274's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMIt’s saying I have to upgrade my Spotify and be a subscriber in order to listen through my sonos? If that was the case I would have bought a regular blue tooth speaker so I can listen to my playlist.
puhakanet's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI do not understand why my Sonos system continues to not work correctly. I have 7 speakers in my house and it was working but since January 1 it has been terrible. I keep getting messages to upgrade on my desktop and then it will not download the upgrade and freezes up. It will not let my desktop run the Sonos. The system came on yesterday using a tablet but only 4 of the 7 speakers would work. The it would not turn off. We wound up unplugging the speakers to make them stop. The Sonos speakers are fine but the system is lousy. It performs very inconsistent and cannot be depended on to work when you need it.
BB-Montana's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI have been very disappointed with my Sonos. I have trouble switching music between rooms. Sometimes it won’t even play at all in a certain room. I also have connection problems with my PC and main music library. This is good sound, but a poor system.
Bernie Yooper's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI purchased 3 speakers, each for a different room in my house. My wife and I can both play music from our phones and we can each control it from our phones. The sound is just great! Where I work we have a different and very expensive sound system. It’s constantly crashing, we need technicians to come out and service it regularly. It’s nothing but trouble for the people who operate it. Sonos takes a little time and patience to set up. Once you are there you are golden. It has really created a wonderful music experience for us. I am a property manager. I buy all kinds of products. This is one that will certainly impress you. If you are in need of a sound system for a large space and rooms multiple speakers this is the sound system for you.
Kweickert's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI used to love it. I still love the idea of it. But the last year has been plagued with frequent skips when playing from iPhone. No improvement from working with Support.
John Young's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMThe 8 unit system we had was great. Now half are gone and app is stuck in an update needed loop. :(
Shadow_K's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMFor At least 6-yrs, Sonos; all over the house, all the time. Can’t imagine being without it!
GCRx4's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMWow... the sounds from these small speakers is wonderful. I’m enjoying all my favorite songs all over again. And it’s a smart speaker, can’t wait to get a second one to listen in stereo!
GOT8SPD's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMMusic skips to next track for no reason. All random. Purchase music, streaming music, Apple Music, Spotify, all of it skips
JiLLiNT's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI’ve had Sonos speakers for 4 years now and the sound is amazing! Unfortunately the software, the interface and all associates updates have been nothing but buggy and uncomfortable since day 1. Doing regular updates seems to exasperate the problems so I don’t do them anymore...or at least I try not to. Sometimes it all crashes down to the point of not being usable if I do update; and if I don’t update it is also unusable. No way to win here. If you live great sound and are willing to suffer the headaches, get these speakers but realize you will have frustrations beyond belief trying to figure it all out. I have three 5 series speakers and two small as well.
UppityGirl's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMAnd that’s a bummer
Bettyboopst's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMIt’s great for the entire family! We love it! Thank goodness for Sonos!
MegaJam67's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMEvery time app opens, I get asked whether I want to turn these on? Why? Why would I want a snooze alert on? I don’t even have a b***** alarm set? Stupid s***** stupid.
JRVsupreme's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMApp hardly works how it should. Alphabet slider is a hit or miss if it comes up. It’s also a hit or miss if the Sonos player comes up on my lock screen on my phone. Music plays without a hitch but the whole scrolling through songs with a huge music category is difficult.
Endurodan1113's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMGreat app Makes so much sense
randyrsx's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMOnly missing is a youtube compatility... could’ve been perfect
Amy P. D.'s Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AMI really wish that I could access Hoopla.
mrom3's Review of Sonos S1 Controller
Reviewed on 1/10/19 11:47 AM2 speakers $700 and one or other continually losing connection