The app also allows you to browse and play music on your devices from a wide range of apps, USB sticks and other audio sources, by connecting via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Had to uninstall and reinstall the app it each time I had to set them up (3 total times) which was the only fix that worked.Music Center (successor app to SongPal) is the app designed by Sony to manage Wireless Audio devices, and is essential to the setup of Wireless Stereo, Surround and Multi-room features. Also you can’t control volume of individual speakers through the app (like Sonos), you have to manually control the volume on individual speakers. “living room,” “kitchen” “dining room”, etc), so if you buy 3 or 4 wireless speakers and they’re the same color, they’re all labeled “SRS-XB21” in your phone so you have no idea which is in what room. Also the app won’t let you “rename” the speakers (e.g. But then try doing the same thing hours later, with the exact same speakers and the exact same app and you have to go through the whole process again, from scratch, which is insane. Bought 3 of these speakers specifically for a party I hosted and this app alone almost ruined the whole night.Įxtremely clumsy and complicated to add other identical sony wireless speakers to it, called a “party chain” which takes at least ten minutes, and multiple dead ends through the app. This app that controls them however, is atrociously bad. Sony knows great sound better than anyone. My new Sony SRS-XB21 Extra Bass wireless speakers are fantastic. Sorry to the intern that made this app, but I'd leave zero stars if I could. Like I said, there are issues present in this app that it's like they assigned this to an intern. Just fix the issue where the settings you select won't stay permanent! They only work when the app is open or recently used.
if somebody is going to download your app, it's to customize the settings, not to play music on apps that they ALREADY have installed. nobody that has a phone capable of installing apps needs to access their library or streaming platforms via the app-please remove this the entire aspect is pointless.
please fix the bugs and redo the entire interface. You're one of tech's giants, yet somehow in 2019 you can't manage a simple app. How many updates has this app had? Yet how does it still not work? And why is the interface so poor? Sony, you are on the NYSE. I Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they had some college student design this app. This app is ridiculously broken, you'd think that with a company like Sony they'd be able to make a decent functioning app for their products that cost in the triple digits. If you don’t need anything other than sound, you probably don’t need (or want) this app. This app has times where it works as smoothly as I need it, and times where I can’t do anything with it.įor the most part, it’s an app with a simple, easy-to-use layout whenever it’s not being useless. That’s only IF I don’t need to disconnect the speaker in my settings and reconnect them because the app tells me it “needs setup”, and then makes me do the above in Settings (the app never does automatically continue to the next step after I do what it says. I have my speaker hooked up to my phone, and I use this app to change the light settings so I don’t need to get up and do it manually on the speaker. The thing works wonderfully and I love it (even though it lists nowhere that the sound volume is reduced when at low battery, nor is there a way to disable that). I got a brand new SRS-XB22 for Christmas.