Plex for Sonos

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We’ve just released our biggest update to Plex for Sonos ever. We made significant changes to our backend service resulting in noticeable performance improvements and a much more reliable playback experience.

New

  • Additional info available for artists: popular tracks, bio, tour dates

Fixes

  • Faster browsing, searching, everything.
  • Playback is more reliable.
  • Supports direct playing FLAC, AAC
  • Browsing other servers / libraries is simpler
  • Numerous user interface enhancements to all pages

Known Issues

  • If you’ve previously used the public beta, you’ll be asked to reauthorize with Plex again the next time you use the service
  • When authenticating you get a scary warning about being in Virginia
  • If you are still seeing the old version in your Sonos app you can force the update by doing the following:
    • Desktop: Check for updates (there won’t be any), then restart the app
    • Mobile: More, Settings, Online Updates, then restart the app

Please post any feedback or questions in the Plex for Sonos forum.

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v2.0.2

Fixes:

  • Display track artist instead of album artist on compilations. (#98)
  • Having large playlists will no longer timeout the request. (#103)
  • Generic “Unable to browse music” error message shown instead of more descriptive errors. (#106)
  • Actively test PMS connections. (#107)
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v2.0.3

NEW:
 - Allow ALAC tracks to direct play. (#100)

FIXES:
 - Paginate large libraries to prevent timeouts. (#108)
 - No longer show the security alert during authentication. (#93)
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v2.0.4

NEW:
 - Distinguish shared servers with owner username. (#125)

FIXES:
 - Use plex.direct connections when available. (#122)
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v2.0.5

NEW:
 - Use local connection for playback when possible. (#2)

FIXES:
 - Properly report platform metadata. (#5)
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v2.0.6

FIXES:
  - Unable to connect via LAN when secure connections are required. (#11)
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v2.0.8

FIXES:
  - Paging recently added in a large library could timeout or cause the PMS to crash.
  - Paging a large playlist could timeout or cause the PMS to crash.
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NEW:

  • Added support for podcasts!
  • Search results now return results from all servers you have access to
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FIXED:

  • Users without music libraries couldn’t see podcasts
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FIXED:

  • In some cases browse would fail if all online sources were disabled
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NEW:

  • Ability to add and remove podcasts from My Podcasts
  • Podcast episode search

FIXED:

  • Support for larger album art
  • More informative error messaging
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This release targets Sonos Companion from Android, iOS, and Web specifically:

FIXED:

  • Certain playback controls were failing due to a missing http header on the Sonos API request
  • Various radios would only play 5-10 tracks before ending
  • When controlling playback via Android the Android player would “randomly” jump between tracks when hitting next or previous
  • Playbacks were not scrobbling or showing up in Recently Played
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This release targets Sonos Companion from Android, iOS, and Web specifically:

NEW:

  • Use any authenticated Plex device to control your Sonos queue via our casting integration. Android, iOS, and Plex Web will now see and control a single queue per speaker. Start playback on web, pick up your phone, and control while you move about your home using the familiar Plex app you know and love

FIXED:

  • Playback on Web and iOS could sometimes cause the UI to stop updating the timeline scrubber and playback buttons
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This release targets Sonos Companion from Android, iOS, and Web specifically:

FIXED:

  • Unable to cast to different Sonos speakers
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This release targets Sonos Companion from Android, iOS, and Web specifically:

FIXED:

  • A case where user has reauthorized their Plex app and when casting to Sonos only 1 track plays and then it stops
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This release targets the Plex for Sonos integration inside the Sonos application:

FIXED:

  • Artist pages would only render a portion of albums when PMS was configured to group albums by type (EP, Singles, etc)
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This release targets the Plex for Sonos integration inside the Sonos application:

FIXED:

  • In cases where a user only has access to a single media server artist search results would fail to load the pre-play and instead return an Unable to browse music error.
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