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I get a lot of support requests nowadays from people who have lost their access to their local library. We get it fixed for the majority, regardless of whether you are using my SonoPhone or SonoPad app So here are my insights about typical ‘patterns’ and how to fix them. For all cases it’s important to know, that (even with my app) you still have to configure your music library properly with Sonos. The reason why my app needs you…

I just realize, that I didn’t write anything for quite some while 🙂 With the latest updates from Sonos, people wonder how the compatibility of SonoPad is. Some thought about it: Hope this helps you all a bit 😀 CheersStefan

I have to admit, that personally I’m a huge fan of “tap to play”. Maybe I’m just simple minded – just playing a single album is all a need 🙂 Anyway – with their latest update (6.4) Sonos made “Tap To Play” a default in all their Controllers as well, but unfortunately also fed up a lot of people with this change, because larger playlists/queues are always in danger to be erased too easily. So why not help those that invest…

Recently I got some questions via support, whether SonoPad still runs under iOS5 and whether it will still work with the latest Sonos 5.1 6.4 update. First of all: thanks a lot for asking before upgrading! One never knows if there are new incompatibilities introduced and we have to remember that Sonos doesn’t share any information with me. So all I can do is to run their Betas regularly and adopt accordingly. The good news: Everything is still working, Sonos did…

I recently stumbled across the site luxusschall.de, a reseller of Sonos gear that is able to style your Sonos boxes. As I’m from Berlin I couldn’t resist to order a box with a Berlin skyline and here is the result. Doesn’t it look gorgeous? Shortly after I met with Pascal Hölscher (one of the founders) in Berlin to have some nice coffee and getting some questions answered. Best thing about it: I’m able to offer SonoPad users a discount on…

After christmas I started to work on integration of Napster/Rhapsody in SonoPad. While the other services were relatively easy (they all use the same calls to retrieve the menus, so a lot of stuff can be used again), Napster/Rhapsody is much harder. I actually have to code each menu on it’s own, which slows me a bit down right now. Here is a short preview of what will be available soon in the next version of SonoPad. But the good…

I have just released my first update: it adds support for the WiMP and Juke music services. Both are available here in Europe: WiMP started in Norway / Sweden but is available in Germany + Denmark now as well. Juke is available in Germany only I’m afraid – but Sonos put a lot of advertising on almost each bus stop before christmas – bundling 6 month of free Juke music and a Play:3 so I just felt it was right…

It’s done! After a long journey that started back in July SonoPad made it into the AppStore right for christmas. Writing an App for Sonos turned out to be much more work than I had anticipated before – so I’m happy to have the very first version out now. But let me introduce myself first: My name is Stefan, I am living in Berlin/Germany and I am writing Apps as hobby 🙂 … three years ago I started using Squeezeboxes…