SonoSequencr

I had a Sonos Play One for several years as my kitchen music system. Despite its evident sound quality, most of the household stopped using it in favour of a portable Anker speaker, due to the lack of Airplay 2 and the clunk factor of the Sonos app. Ideally I was looking to add a speaker to it to make a stereo pair, but Sonos wouldn’t let me do that with an Airplay 2 enabled speaker. And so it was that the Play very nearly ended up on the scrap heap and I very nearly bought a set of AudioEngine speakers to replace it. Then I found an article recommending this app as the solution. I now have a stereo paired Sonos One second gen with the Play. They sound superb together. The Anker has been banished and the household has happily scrapped the Sonos app. Sonos should be happy ‘cos I didn’t throw their old speaker away and I spent more money to buy a new one. Why Sonos refuses to build this app’s functionality into its own app I just don’t know - they’d sell more kit if they did. But in the meantime, a massive thank you to SonoSequencr for enabling me to run my speakers in the way I wanted to configure them and making the impossible easy.

Credit to the author. This app has now allowed me to setup an older Play:1 together with a new One SL as surround speakers to a beam that was simply not possible with the Sonos app (why not Sonos?) - as it will not allow that combination. Once the config has been setup in this app, you can then (if you want to) simply return to the Sonos app and continue as before. I may well use some of the other features, however, being able to overcome this one annoying Sonos limitation is well worth the cost of this app.

Bought this app for just one feature - to schedule night mode on/off. Can’t do this without a ‘premium’ subscription…. Always read the small print.

Like you, I was annoyed that I couldn’t stereo pair my Sonos one with my Play:1. I was also skeptical as to whether the app would work. I am pleased to say it works completely. You don’t need to sign into your Sonos account. As soon as it’s setup it recognises the pair on the Sonos app. You can tune both speakers with true play together instead of separately etc. Would recommend fully. Ps, thanks to whoever made this!

Really Don’t waste your money It’s half interesting when it works but invariably it has decided to disconnect and you need to go back to your phone and coax it back to life Only for it to not be able to find anything next time you try to use it Wish I could get a refund. Feel properly ripped off

Sonos have too high an opinion of themselves and won’t let you form a stereo pair of different devices presumably due to some perfectionist hi fi view. I bought a couple of new devices to spread around so I could benefit from AirPlay 2. This brilliant app allows me to pair a Symfonisk with a Play 1 and I’m well pleased. Be warned though, the app is not intuitive at first sight. The bit you want is the “config” link against a device where you can add a stereo pair. You can carry on using the Sonos app or you can use this app by itself. And of course I can now use AirPlay without upgrading every device.

Thank god this app exists. I'm a new owner of the Sonos Beam and was gutted when I realised I couldn't create Alexa routines to schedule Night Mode or Speech Enhancement. Not currently supported by Sonos despite users asking for years apparently. I've been looking for alternatives or other ways to do it and came across this app on Reddit. It does exactly what I need. I've set Night Mode to automatically turn on late in the evening and turn off in the morning. Subscription is also offered at a very generous price so couldn't be more happy. Thank you.

This apps fills some of the gaps with Sonos. I got brilliant support from the app developer when adding a new sub to my system. Recommended if you want to gain extra control of various Sonos speakers around your home.

I use this app every night to put my daughters to bed. Has recently been crashing (assume it is related to Sonos S2), but have been able to get in touch with the developer, hopefully it is an easy fix.

This app has allowed me to create a really helpful screen of buttons for various processes I carry out to use my Sonos setup across a large home. The developer even helped me out with an issue to get my system working better. Not sure why Sonos themselves don’t provide some of this capability but they don’t. This app makes my speaker system one-touch user-friendly for the rest of my family.