Sonos users losing patience over lack of volume presets or global EQ in the app, but there's a workaround

Sonos is one of the most popular audio hardware manufacturers, known for its soundbars, smart speakers, and much more.

To configure its wide range of products, the company has developed a powerful companion app that gets updated quite frequently.

It also helps deliver a tailored user experience. However, some feel that the app lacks in some places.

According to reports (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), multiple users have been demanding for the inclusion of much needed features such as volume presets or a global EQ in the Sonos app for quite some time.

The volume preset options or global equalizer can help one to easily tweak the audio settings of their Sonos speakers or soundbars.

This would be especially useful for those who have to switch over from streaming music onto their speakers to watching movies on their television as one needs to manually tweak the audio to make it sound balanced.

You must manually adjust the sound settings on all Sonos speakers in the living room even if the intention is to play the same music file in a group.

Another user on the Sonos Community forums also alleged that they have to manually set the volume levels for their Sonos Amp and Sonos One, time and again.

Although this request has been around for a while now, Sonos has done nothing in this regard. In what seems like a desperate move, customers are now once again requesting the developers to include these features in their app.

I know this has been asked before. I have a Arc, Sub and two Ones. I’d like to be able to put the ones on both sides of the Arc, and go from using Arc+Sub for tv and movies, and then switch to Ones+Sub for music.
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I would like it if it remembered volume settings based on groups or based on what app is playing.
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Fortunately, iOS users can purchase and make use of an alternative app called ‘Soro‘ to easily tweak sound settings on their speakers. However, we didn’t come across any alternatives for Android smartphone users.

We do hope that Sonos listens to the demands of users and brings the much-needed volume presets or global EQ to the app.

In the meantime, we will keep tabs on this issue and update this story as new information becomes available.

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