SonoPad for Sonos

Anyone with a Sonos device knows that their app is a complete mess right now. I decided to search for an alternative and found SonoPad for Sonos and SonoPhone for iphone. I liked the phone app so much I bought the ipad app too. It is well worth the money for 2 reasons…1)The volume control has ZERO latency! What a gift! 2)I use PocketCasts to listen to podcasts. On the Sonos app, I’d have to scrub to get to a position if I started on my iphone and went to my Play 3 (yes, I’m still rocking my Play 3 speaker). Not with these apps! Both sync the timestamp and it goes both ways; speaker to iphone/ipad and iphone/ipad to speaker, What a gift! Can’t wait to see what else these apps can do. Back to listening and controlling my media without friction!

When Sonos rolled out it’s totally redesigned app, almost every basic function was missing. Clearly there was no testing, nor was there any consideration given to all of us who created a Sonos ecosystem over the years. Fortunately, I already had the SonoPad app on my iPad and I was able to perform roughly 85% of the functions that I previously had using the S2 app. Sonos really screwed the pooch this time around, but fortunately Sonopad is a very good workaround. Not all functions are there, like adding new directories for a Nas Drive, or to set an alarm. All in all, SonoPad saved the day.

Was exited to find an app that would work (the app from Sonos is a joke). But, this app is not a good as it sounds. It’s not intuitive. It doesn’t find playlists like it should. When it does and loads them, it doesn’t play anything even though you click the play button. It’s weird the way it does load playlists, then has to load them again in the play list-play side. The really stupid thing is, when I open the native Sonos App and got it to play (finally), THEN this app turned right around and was playing the same play lists. If I turned playlist off in this app, it auctioned on the native app. Just kluge. And while the developer is nice, there is simply ZERO help files out there. So now, I have paid for an app that isn’t working and difficult to use and a native Sonos App that is a joke and doesn’t work correctly at all. Which means, my Sonos system is now all junk to store in the garage. This is infuriating. I would not buy this again.