Menu Bar Controller for Sonos 4+
Control Sonos with one click
Alexander Heinrich
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- $3.29
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Elevate your Sonos experience with this powerful and intuitive menu bar companion app, now featuring MiniPlayer, Guest Mode, and more! Seamlessly control your Sonos system without ever leaving your workspace.
Menu Bar Controller for Sonos rests discreetly in your menu bar, offering quick and easy access to essential controls like volume adjustments, pausing the current song, or skipping to the next track. When your music is set, the app disappears from view, allowing you to focus on your tasks.
All Features:
• MiniPlayer: Effortlessly track music and stay informed about the currently playing song with a sleek, compact window.
• Widgets: Add a MiniPlayer widget to your Desktop showing the currently playing song.
• Guest Mode: Control any Sonos system on your Wi-Fi network, even if it's not linked to your account – perfect for offices and hotel rooms.
• Song Titles in Mac Menu Bar: Instantly see the current song title without opening the app.
• Battery Indicator: Monitor battery life on your Sonos speakers with built-in batteries.
• Access all features through an icon in the Menu Bar
• Group rooms in your household
• Play music from your Sonos favorites / Sonos playlists
• Shows current song and artist
• Change the volume of every individual speaker
• Keyboard shortcuts for several interactions
• Use the media buttons on your keyboard
• Apple Shortcuts integration
• Mute speakers and groups
• Skip to the next song or play the previous song
• Automatically start the app when you start your Mac
• Voice Over Support for visually impaired users
• Apple Script support for Apple Automator
• Light and Dark Mode support
• Touch Bar integration
• Now playing integration
• Detects when the Menu Bar is overfull and shows a hovering icon
• Set a sleep timer
This app requires you to log in with your Sonos Account. It does not allow streaming music from your Mac to a Sonos speaker (please use AirPlay for this). Use the official Sonos Controller App if you need all features.
This is not an official app by Sonos Inc.
Sonos is a trademark of Sonos Inc.
What’s New
Version 5.2.4
This version fixes ongoing connection issues with the Sonos speakers. The implemented changes should also speed up the overall experience.
In detail, we found that the app started to hit rate limiting imposed by Sonos, so we have reduced the amount of request it sends. As a result more requests are handled locally and sent directly to Sonos speakers, which makes the app also faster.
Ratings and Reviews
Pretty good. Not essential.
Some companion apps enhance the experience of a product in ways that make you wonder how you did without said app. This app does not do that. It's not un-useful. I like that it gives me a minimal level of control without taking up desktop space.
One functionality that seems to be missing: It would be nice to actually be able to edit your groups, instead ofjust controlling their volume, but oh well.
The one irrritating thing I have found the controler does, that the dektop app does not do: When you get a call or facetime, it automatically stops your music... everywhere. This is unneccesary and an annoyance. Why should the music stop in the living room because I get a facetime call in the office? I find myself NOT using this app to avoid this.
Awesome with my StreamDeck
The initial install worked great. I bought this for the AppleScript support—I use it to control my system from a StreamDeck.
I took off one star because there is no documentation for the AppleScript. I'm a software engineer but not experienced in AppleScript, so I had to do a bit of trial and error. Also, I'd really like the playPause verb to be separate play and pause so I can have one button for Play and another for Pause without having to check if the device is currently playing.
Wonderful, wonderful little app.
I'm constantly managing my Sonos products, and this indespensable app makes doing so incredibly faster than using the native Sonos Mac app. The UI is quick and easy, and the keyboard shortcuts are logical—I rarely actually need to interact with the UI. Between this and the Lyd iPhone/Apple Watch app (also well worth the couple bucks!), I have quick and easy control over my Sonos environment at a moments notice.
Does the Sonos app work? Of course. But these apps make the experience in line with what Apple users expect.
Bonus: the dev is super nice, and super responsive. Dev: You could easily charge more for this app than you do!
App Privacy
The developer, Alexander Heinrich, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Alexander Heinrich
- Size
- 8.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Alexander Heinrich 2018-2024
- Price
- $3.29
- In-App Purchases
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- Feature Update 2024 $1.99
- Feature Update 2023 $1.99
- Feature Update 2022 $1.99
- Unlock Features 2025 $1.99