Hi, Ah interestingly it isn’t showing me the most recent at all merely the first 8 or so in the order they appear on the see more screen I didn’t count. Had it been the most recent I might have found that more useful than the form it currently takes. I guess that see more button and I will be fast friends (laughs). Robin
From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Query about newest version of the Sonos App I guess it’s just so sighted people see more at a glance. It looks like they show the most recent 8 Albums, Playlists or Stations and if you want to see all of them you just have to tap on the “See More” button. It’s not so different from how this works in other apps or even on the PC, if you open Word or Excel you see a certain number of your most recently used files except here you can say if you want to see the last 6, 8, 10 or whatever. I don’t think I have found a place where you could specify this for the My Sonos tab or where, if you wanted to, you could turn off to see only the most recent ones you used. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 6:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Query about newest version of the Sonos App Hi, Oh please do I think it could be useful for things like volume control and room selection for instance. My only other question is perhaps you have some thoughts on design as it pertains to when you first enter the my sonos screen you only see a few of your favorites. I’m curious what the necessity for that is why not just take you to all of your favorites or give users a way to further select which favorites amongst favorites appear there or am I missing something? Robin From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Query about newest version of the Sonos App Interesting idea with the rotor in Sonos, I’ll have to suggest it to them and see if it could be used. Once you get used to the new layout I think you find it more intuitive, I certainly do and like the tabs along the bottom better than how it was before. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Query about newest version of the Sonos App Hi Sieghard, Firstly thank you for making me smile. Secondly I wish your wife all manner of good things and an easy journey through her time of monitoring. Thirdly I knew you’d know I just knew it. I think that was my mistake I might have been on the now playing screen and just didn’t realize it what with all the seeming newness. Suddenly I had an unintended grouping and hadn’t a clue how I did it. I like the new layout quite well enough. But I always think to myself in various places I do wish they’d make more use of the VoiceOver rotor. It’d be neat to be able to change volume or rooms or such that way. Ah well maybe one day. Thanks to you Neal and others for all your hard work on the betas for the benefit of us all. Yes the new speakers do sound neat it’d be fun to play with one and I’m hoping you’ll report back should you have the chance to do so. Thanks again. Robin From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Query about newest version of the Sonos App Hi Robin, you silly girl, OK, selecting a room is all done via the rooms tab. The trick is that one you tapped on a room and it’s selected, you are done in the rooms tab unless you want to group rooms. Let’s say I want to play a particular song, album, artist or playlist in the Master Bedroom, then once that has started playing I want to select the Kitchen and select a radio station. For sake of simplicity let’s assume both the album or playlist as well as the radio station are added to the “My Sonos” tab which is sort of a new thing where all your favourite stuff is. So, I tap on the rooms tab and select Master Bedroom, now I go to the My Sonos tab and select the album or playlist, I may have to select if I want to play all the album or I can tap on a particular song, but that’s essentially it. If you now check just above the Rooms tab, about in the middle near the bottom, it now says “Master Bedroom” followed by “currently playing and whatever it is that is playing. Double tap on that and the “Now Playing” screen opens, at the top left you can dismiss it. Next, if you want to start your radio station in the Kitchen, dismiss the now playing screen, tap again on the rooms tab, select kitchen, go back to the My Sonos tab and select your radio station. You could also go to the Browse tab and select any of your sources like your library or whichever music services you have set up. If, let’s say you are on the now playing screen for Master Bedroom, there is a “Master Bedroom” button at the bottom centre. If you tap that and select another room it will be grouped with Master Bedroom so if you want to select another room entirely without grouping it as far as I know you have to close the now playing screen and go back to the rooms tab. I haven’t checked about a limit on Favourites, but I like the My Sonos screen as it is nicely set up for all your favourites whether they are artists, albums or playlists. I have been on the beta program for Sonos for years, I just deleted the Sonos 8 beta today and replaced it with the full version as that beta has ended. In the past I have always received an invitation for the next beta, I guess I will find out if I get invited to beta test Sonos 9. I am very seriously considering buying one or two Sonos 1 speakers, I’ll be going back to Calgary in two weeks with my wife as she is going to have more seizure monitoring and possibly surgery so I might buy it at a Best Buy there as I can save myself 7% taxes if I buy in Alberta instead of here in British Columbia. I might just use 27000 Aeroplan points which would get me a $200 Best Buy gtift card for this. I definitely won’t order it now because by the time it would get shipped in late October we would already be not at home any more and there is little point to have it sitting here for 3 or 4 weeks until we get back. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:24 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Query about newest version of the Sonos App Hi, I updated to the newest version of the Sonos app this morning and my what an interesting makeover it seems to have received. As usual it’s extremely accessible for VoiceOver users and I’d expect no less from them at this point. However, I am left with two questions for which I couldn’t readily find answers. But I suspect Neil or Sieghard will laugh when they read them and say silly girl it’s so obvious (laughs). Firstly have they increased the number of favorites one can have or are we still at 30? Secondly it used to be that merely selecting a different speaker would switch the app’s focus to that speaker sending your sound to it. Today when I selected a different room it created a group with the room I’d selected previously. So how does one select a different speaker without creating a group? See told you it’s probably ridiculously obvious but my weary brain just didn’t hit upon it today so I apologize in advance and say thanks for the rescue today (smile). Robin -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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