Sony | Music Center

it does nothing special or useful and is redundant as well as extremely poorly designed and does not offer anything my phone cant already do. if I was able to play around with the speakers equalizer it would be much better

It is a great app. It makes a playlist for you.\n You can't edit the songs, but it's my go to

Its audio quality is very good. However, when playing music with the equalizer, if you forward it, the volume increases for a mini second at a time. If this didn't happen, I would have given it 5 stars. Otherwise, it's like listening to music on a Sony Ericsson Wseries. It would be nice if it had a dark theme. This app has received many updates but still no dark mode.Even if an update comes, it will be the same, nothing has changed.

best

I like it your app it sounds to be very good and better qualites to listen good, that's clearly sounds good......... ears brains good than bodies activities ok.......,....,....

very good with the new Bluetooth earphones

sp far so good

hi music center....! 🎶 🎵

Los headphones no aparecen (WH-1000XM4C) y el sonido desaparece se abro la app

Amazon Alexa setup not working in sony music center app. Always stuck in same screen provide soundbar name post that no dialog and no updates stuck ever there. HT-A3000 soundbar

I like the sound

no 1 app

good

can't turn my speaker on remotely what so ever.

super

speak to chat keeps re enabling cant disable consistently

usefull

smoothly operates nice app

গুড

so far so good

super

okay

nice

sabwofer control ka button dedo app me .. bas fhir 5 star de dunga 😅

awesome

Good

super sound

does what it is meant to

nice

This the best music app you can ever find online. Every single interface is professionally built. With this app you don't just play music you tune music 💯

ok its good music player. i wish that you allow the seamless play where it automatically join music to next music without the static wait.

sony s40 setting not possible

it's wonderful

Excellent Outstanding

Excellent

black..

thanks a bunch for the day..

hi I have changed my headphones...👍👽🧢 neodymium magnets!!! Danutz C. Chitzac.

app trips up phone player

Please add Dark Theme. My eyes are burning!

deepakkumar

add more updates for sound and illumination

Nice one... I like it....

option show nhi ho raha hai

Buggy App. Please fix the app. My Sony Home Theatre keeps disconnecting bluetooth because of this app. It is interfering. Since I have deleted the app, it works perfect. And I have tried this on my s25 Ultra and A56 smartphone both!

take too long to connect to my setting jbl is better

greatest app I have ever downloaded

Sony ka device hai best hai

great 😃

I like it

Great app with good quality sound

party connect doesn't work

goood

சூப்பர்

jhakash

Nice

It's perfect for controlling my speaker on my phone

satisfactory

very good

star

Where's my bluetooth option? Why am I unable to select bluetooth now?

very best app

fixed the issue i was having with my speakers.

good 👍

sonys SRS-XG500,,,best product for your money.. invest in the best,,"sony one and only..."

super

it's really hard to connect

nice

average

perfect mu6 player

music without stupid popups

se corta mucho el Bluetooth de mi telefono, pero de ahí en fuera deberían de poner algún modo oscuro ojalá en configuración.

They seem to have fixed many of the problems. But that can disappear in one bad update. Fingers crossed that they will leave it alone.

exelence

good

Always my favourite music app

nice work 💯

very nice app

don't worry

art work is missing for some reason and the cover is included

amazing app

good

super boss

sony str-dn1050 av amplifier no support

👍👍💞💞💯💯👍👍

cannot read mp3 embed(ed) album cover

good

it's so good

Sony is still #1

not able to connect ULT FIELD 3. ALSO im not able to connect my SRS 800 with ULT field 3. all speakers should seamlessly connect. nearest competitor is able to connect all its speaker in one app.

nice application 👍

Does not connect to ULT 10

the app shutdown one of my pair groupef speaker

horrible app to use. and my settings keep reverting

can't connect my Sony ULT 7 Bluetooth speaker to my phone

Cannot connect to alexa from this app.

😀

awesome

good

sucks

Amongst the Best Apps to play Hi-Res lossless Audio without any clock errors (both via LDAC & Wired playback)

The Volume doesnt show level in number, we have to see the volume level on car display everytime

It Works flawlessly with my DN860 receiver. It now includes music player also. Nice! Edit 19/08/2026: The off menu on my xb43 no longer shut off the speaker. It works for my 1000xm6 though.

Version as of this date connects speakers well but best to not start an audio player app through it because it slows down interaction with the player app.

Adaptive colors for player form album art looks stunning and album art within folder view keep up awesome work LOVE SONY 👍 Please path/folder by folder the current folder view is very hard to find. Also please add option to import playlist I need to import my walkman Playlist

Seen some 5* 4* reviews, totally undeserved in my opinion As with a lot of sony apps the service is slow, clunky and nearly unusable Sony make good speakers TV equipment but their brand is ruined by poor inadequate software Just like to add this is one of the worst apps I've had the misfortune to rely on as I've spent money on Sony sound systems Looking to buy non Sony sound to replace my clunky, intermittently working Sony speakers The inadequate apps have been the ruin of Sony

updated rating since it seems to be working normally again but still my receiver doesn't connect to Bluetooth right away it's always stuck on whatever input was used last so have to disconnect and reconnect Bluetooth, please update the receivers to go straight to the last input or whatever arc is connected to because it's annoying everytime the receiver turns on it goes to the home screen then you have to go through 2 selection screens just to get to the input you want.

App works fine and all, little bit of a bland app, not many options for controlling things but what bothers me is i bought 2 speakers to set up left and right bluetooth channels for my pc and I have to set everything up on my phone then connect the speakers to my PC rather than it being possible to do in the PC version off music centre. The PC version is literally just a media player totally pointless.

I used to love this app for my flac files.. But after the update in 2021, it started crashing every week or two. I can't even launch the app when it started crashing and i need to uninstall and reinstall the app again which means i have to remake all my bookmarks, playlist and favorites. It's already in 2024 and it's still not fixed even if i bought 3 phones(all different brands) with hi res, ldac compatability eversince i noticed this bug. I ultimately bought a music player for my flac files.

Although in Australia Sony's mobile equipment is not available, I am using this app on Google Pixel phone, Galaxy Tab S5e (I don't like Samsung's bloatware) and on Windows 11. In my opinion it is the best app for Android/Windows user. It would be nice if the app would sync between all my devices. Also, there is no information on the library size i.e how many songs are in the library.

I've quite liked using this music player. However, I have some complaints 1) pausing and changing songs takes a VERY VERY long time -- I just timed it at about 4 seconds to for the 'next' or 'back' to go through. Unacceptable and unusable! No other app has this issue. 2) the lack of a dark mode: all of my other apps have one, so when I open this I feel blinded. Overall it is a tolerable music player.

I just turned my Sony speaker on and it's with the lights on and the option to turn it off has disappeared from the app ONCE AGAIN!!! This is VERY annoying, it keeps happening every so often. Why do you keep messing around with this app? It makes me want to sell my speakers and buy another brand. Unbelievable!! 😠

I can get it to work if persistent. I have spent more time trying to get this app to function then ALL of my other apps combined (X 10) I bought Sony because I thought it would be reliable, that is definitely not the case. Otherwise the speakers sound great used individually without the app.

Limited when it works, and it often doesn't. I use it to control an STR-DN1080, which is an excellent AV receiver. The app interface is rather basic but it does the job for selecting input sources, volume and EQ, sound and speaker settings. Trouble is, most of the time it won't even connect, regardless of whether I use a wired or WiFi connection on the amp. I don't know whether it's the app or the amp's WiFi that's the issue. Either way, it renders the app useless much of the time.

I use it with a Soundbar (HT-ST5000) and the play options are different depending on source e.g. NAS drive I can "play all" from any level of folder (album, artist, entire collection) USB, I have to navigate to the album folder and select a track - So no way to play all albums from one artist (or all collection) Also, if you navigate away from the app then come back, it shows what is being played, but you can't navigate to the Playlist, so have to start from top of file folder again.

No UI customizations. Direct playback of genre, artist, album is impossible without needing to create a playlist or add to an ongoing play queue or to play it next - anything but fundamental Play; in order to be able to initiate any playback at all, there is a need to pick a track to play and only then to return to whatever one wanted to play- as very awkward and unnecessary limitation. If that is not enough, it is unclear how to delete a play queue to create another, if it is possible at all.

I have been complaining about the same thing since 2015. It still & will not play just a specific folder & shuffle the songs when playing from a flash drive. My MHC-V6D just needs to go to FLDR SHUF mode but this app cannot do that, it can only go to FLDR. Not to mention, it doesn't read all the songs in the flash drive. This app is just erratic! It doesn't even know how to operate properly. Sony is just too lazy to update the app even the most basic function is lacking.

Absolutely LOVE it...except for a small issue that still occurs when I connect two or more speakers in Party Mode. I still frequently have quite a bit of connectivity problems that result in spotty sound and occasional unwanted drops of connection altogether. Fix whatever bug is doing that, and you folks will have one of THE BEST sound experiences possible from any Bluetooth anywhere!! Promise.

I found the app to be rather confusing, if I wanted to adjust something. I couldn't really tell if it happened or not. And it sends a lot of notifications to your phone tablet Etc. It sends out way too many notifications or however that works but at any rate it's highly annoying. Yeah I could have turned off the notifications for the app. But like I said I really couldn't tell if it does anything for my speaker. So I deleted the app. I found it to be rather frustrating

The app words good. No issues. I have one suggestion. I need the prompt that reminds me that the battery is at 20% to not happen or be silenced. It interrupts playback, and that no good. I see that there's a way to mute other things with my speaker (SRS XE200) so if the low battery prompt could not happen then this speaker would be near perfect.

Overall, I really like the app! If i could suggest a change that would essentially make this the perfect app in my opinion: 1. Currently, when you select "genre" it only lists all the tracks in that genre. I tend to brows by genre a lot so it would be so nice to be able to tap the genre button and have the option of browsing albums, or artists within the genre instead of all the tracks which is very cluttered to navigate. Hopefully you can take this into considerstion for a future update:)

Shows what Sony has become... Nothing. Bought 2 SRS XB41, spent a fortune on them, only to find out I can't change their names in order to add them both. Every time I open the app, 1 of them "Needs Setup". My original intention was to use them both, at the same time, via the "Group" function, which only works if I manually go and press "Add" on the speaker itself, each time I want to listen to both of them. My LAST Sony purchase ever. They've sunk too low.

I like this app,not only can I manage my Sony speaker,I can also bring all my speakers to a group,that will play as one, it sounds good when you are able to hear your "surround sound",yes it does more than that. Get this app, to get the most out of your Sony product.

Great companion app for associated headphones. For some reason I want to say, "more control" but I'm relatively certain the app's eq (including Sony's Mega Bass adjustment) , button customizations, use achievements, and semi-regular headphone updates provide more control than Mos (here's lookin a you JBL, though you have your pluses too). The addition of spatial audio customizations is excellent cherry for the whipped cream atop this portable audio cake. Thanks, Sony! Walkman, please!!

Absolute garbage. I have never been more disappointed in a feature than Sony's pairing. Frequent outages and interuptions. Its not possible to play music for 20minutes without a connection problem: IN AN OPEN FIELD AT 10 METERS range. Does anybody at Sony actually test anything? Do their own developers actually use the products they make? Quite likely the answers are both NO. This is definitely one of those MeToo features Sony is trying to emulate of other portable speaker manufacturers...

Please do some work on this. The eq is too small. It should scale to the size of the display. And it is too bright. At least give us an invert colors option or a dark theme. There is a ton of wasted space when playing a song. Make the album cover larger to fill up that area more. And add plus minus controls instead of sliders for the speaker position and individual volume as it is nearly impossible to make accurate settings. None of this is hard. Give me the code and I'll do it.

This app has very limited features, at least for Sony HT-A5000. Nothing you cannot do directly on the soundbar itself via TV. The worst part is though every time I try to setup Alexa on the soundbar it crashes the Amazon app and the operation fails. I've tried a couple times a day for more than a week and it still doesn't work.

Could you please add gapless playback to the App? It still has tiny gaps between tracks that are supposed to play seamlessly. It doesn't look good, since audio playback quality is what Sony's reputation depends on. It's such a basic feature and it's still not there. 2) Also, there's no native dark mode switch in the App. The OS forced dark mode is buggy. 3) Could you please sort albums by Year (not Alphabet) when viewed under the "Artist" category.

I have a soundbar (HT-CT800) and two wireless speakers (SRS-ZR5), that I used to be able to set into surround sound mode, via the app. Recently, when choosing to group speakers, the option for surround sound no longer appears. Thus, I can no longer group the speakers into a surround sound mode using my phone. This is very frustrating, given the connection problems occuring, since the wireless speakers recently updated their firmware.

I really like the app and support Sony but I would like you to strongly consider my two suggestions: 1. Automatically launch into main device's media files instead of having to click on "This device, phone, etc." We have horse the ability to access other device's manually. I want to be able to tap on the Sony Music Center app, and have it go right into my music. 2. Please develop a Dark Theme. I love the app but I don't like the white screen draining the battery. Thanks!! Nice tech fillled app!

I have two Sony SRS-XP700 and I'm constantly fighting with this app to get them both to connect. On stereo mode, they'll randomly become unpaired. In party mode, one speaker will randomly not play any sound - but they're still connected, because the lights are following the music on the speaker that isn't making a sound and the volume control communicates with he other speaker. You have to ungroup and regroup and it might end up working after maybe 10-15 minutes of fiddling with it. Terrible.

1. Why is there no way to empty the play queue? 2. Why is there no "play now" option in album / artist /song menu? 3. First time I opened the app I could not find a way to actually start playing music after clicking "play next" or "add to play queue". After clicking around for 30 minutes I found that I had to go to the songs view and click on a random song to bring up the actual music player. Horrific, unusable mess of an app.

It's alright. You can create your own sound profile or EQ which is nice. However, even though it says the CUSTOM sound profile is on. You have to go into the app everytime you reconnect to Bluetooth to actually get the EQ to work. It sounds like it just defaults to mega bass unless you click on CUSTOM again, even though it says its on. Which is very annoying.

[Edit 2021...Updated fixed the issue. Thx.. but still bit slow to connect devices.] Downloaded to connect and control a car stereo (Sony WX 920BT) which is in list of compatible devices. However cannot add the car stereo in the app, automatically or manually. App also asks to connect device to WiFi! Don't have WiFi in my car. Stupid.

I don't see the point of the sound effects. The audio controls are good. I think I like the intelligence of the Sony Speaker and how it activates the Music Center app. I can "add apps" to the interface for quick launch. The lighting is pretty good, though I wish they can be manually controlled. The auto shut down feature doesn't update me with the battery level when turned back on. All in all, Music Center does it's job. I think more features would be nice.

Horrendous waste of time. It simply doesn't work. The speakers and headphones I love. I like the ability to connect multiple speakers which it takes me about a minute to do manually. Note that they should be of the same generation. But the app is a black hole, a waste of time. Tried on Samsung S21 Ultra (current phone) and on prior Samsung phones with the same results.

Cmon sony.. What you doing... ??? This app is atrocious.. your standard has dropped dramatically in last 20 years. We expect better. Please please get with the program sony. !!! One more thing... your srs xb13 bluetooth speaker needs scrapping and starting again. Its a mere toy in retrospect to its counter parts.

This app has worked in the past but now when I try and set up my srs-x77 in wifi mode the speaker always fails to join the network. The "link" light is solid which is supposed to mean it's connected but it's not. I've only had a few Sony "smart" products but it seems that every one is let down by a lack of software support and/or updates. In most cases the support lifespan is short and the software during that time is still buggy and limited.

Stopped supporting my receiver a while back without any reasonable alternative to keep the app connectivity. Bought many Sony receivers before but I'm much more happy with Denon nowdays. Based on this experience I won't ever consider Sony as a possible alternative again - just don't want to wake up one day to find out that app support has suddenly been removed again. Plenty of other companies that I would rather give my money to.

Sony make some of the best looking hardware ever. But they're software is mostly poor unintuitive and clumsy. This app is poor. From the confusing interface to the clunky implementation if you try to play music. I originally planned to use Wifi to play music but that only works if I use built in Home cast. And every time I am forced to refused to pair a Bluetooth connection. I can't find any way to reset and start again. Painful, just painful.

It's okay. I just didnt really want it since I have a music app already. This one supercedes my other but not in a useful way. It overwrites whatever is on my phone when I connect to my car stereo. So, kinda annoying. 😖***Update*** While I still hold on my original comments (i.e. it's annoying) I will add that you can add apps (i.e. Amazon Music, TED etc) directly into the app. If you allow it to auto start it can be a one stop app for AM/FM Radio, Satellite [Sirius], AUX, USB, Bluetooth, & CD.

This works great for playing music through a Bluetooth device, or a phone. But I can't get it to work with wired headphones, the pair that came with my phone. I can get YouTube and other apps to play through my wired headphones. Pretty disappointing, I'll have to find another music player just to use wired headphones occasionally. Since Bluetooth works great, and there are wonderful Bluetooth wireless ear buds now, I'd love to switch to that option, but alas I am also poor.

Because of this app, I recommend friends and family to stay away from Sony bluetooth speakers. I have two Sony GTKXB60 and I cannot use them without being forced to use this app. This app has connection issues, it's unreliable, and it's hectic to sync the two speakers together. I would recommend going with JBL speakers instead (you can use them by connecting via bluetooth and the app is optional).

This App is great. It does everything I need it to do, except one thing. Connect automatically. I have a Sony DSX-A415BT in my car. The Bluetooth is persistent and connects flawlessly 100% of the time. However, having this App is a whole different story. I can't even MAKE it connect to the head unit, unless I do a complete reinstall. I'm sick of screwing with it. I'll just use the BT Audio in the head unit and play Pandora on my phone. I really had high hopes for the functionality of this App. But I seriously do not have the time to do any more with it.

Would be 5 but there is absolutely no way to clear the play queue except by manually removing each song. Want to play a particular playlist alone with random turned on? Sorry! You gotta manually remove the 300 songs in the queue...one by one...takes 4 or 5 minutes. If you leave it be, the queue will grow unending as you use the app. Sony, please fix this. Thank You.

A mess. You cannot select nor deselect folders to scan. The player itself resembles the thousands based on the same open source code that really has no added value here. No equalizer nor other reason to use this app over all the others. Even the integration with Sony connect app is very poorly done. Sony is a continuous disappointment in the software department.

Has poor lighting control options, no color wheel, just a random shade behind umbrella color terms, for example having fuchsia as color instead of green... not a smart device, but this app is basically what they didn't wanna pay to be on the remote. Does have good options for quality just writing Sony on something doesn't make it awesome anymore and as an 80s born child that kinda sucks and makes sense at the same time.

The reason this app sucks so badly may be the fault of the Chromebook I'm using. I can count on one hand the number of apps that have worked correctly on here and this one is one of the many that doesn't work. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a Sony program to make a connection with Sony headphones, which is ridiculous. More proof that the Chromebook is a glorified web surfer and will crash when you try to make it do anything more complicated than that, like run an app correctly.

Overall it's okay. Great EQ. Minor lag experienced while changing tracks but that can be ignored with the sound quality. Few suggestions: 1. Add a option to select which folder I wanna play, as the app add files from recordings or WhatsApp audio (which is bit annoying) 2. Add a dark theme 3. Add the Play next option in the queue, because to do that I have to open my library then there's the option available (it takes a bit time) 4. Add a timer (it helps during night time)

A couple years later and I still can't use the network capabilities of the SRS-X77. I blame the app and speaker both. The app could at least tell me what's going on though. Also, you can't use system dual audio with two Sony speakers because it will force you to use one speaker at a time. I have three generations of their speaker including the newest one, and I can't use any means with this app to use two at once.

Little or no improvement after updates. The whole app needs a major overhaul. Look at the Anker app for an idea of what good looks like. Pairing speakers in groups should be easy and it's not. The group's also lose their pairing and you have to go through the whole slow painful process again. Once or twice a week I have to factory reset my speaker group and pair it all up again. When it's working it's brilliant, but that's not often.

I really only use this app as a pre-out equalizer for YouTube. It saves me from having to adjust the settings on my car's head unit, and it's one of the only comprehensive equalizers that works with YouTube. Great EQ, just wish the ui was a tad easier to navigate. Suggestion: EQ should be more easily accessible. A button at the bottom of screen, under the hamburger menu, SOMETHING.

It's a good app if you are using one of Sony's products via phone. For me the installation process was too much of a hustle, as I didn't know why I wasn't able to connect with NFC or Bluetooth. But after some trials it did connect. You have the freedom of playing music without needing to actually open the app, quite handy. Though, a big issue is the fact that I need to plug in my Jack cable in the computer in order to use my speakers. And that's because there is not a programme for PC (yet?) .

Once I tap on audio in, there is no way to go back to bluetooth audio. You'll need to power off the speaker and turn it back on to enable bluetooth audio back. Also, I wish there's a shortcut to access illumination options instead of having to tap several buttons to get there. Lastly, the UI could be a lot better.

Fantastic App and works perfect with my new Sony DSXA510BD Car Stereo, Xperia phone connects every time the radio comes on pretty nifty I can control Dab, USB, Bluetooth phone players, like music player, YouTube etc. I like app especially for the dab control which it's very good for I just wish there was a feature that listed all you tuned dab stations like a scroll menu instead of having to go through each station individually, yes you have access to the presets but a list would be cool.

It takes longer to load or never loads the speaker info. You have to disconnect the speaker from your phone and connect it again to see, the stuff. And the speaker doesn't tell you the real porcentage of the battery 🙄. Sony use to make really good speakers and phones. But now I'm very very sad that they are bad at making products with good quality. Other companies are getting way better. And the price for their products are awesome. I'm sorry sony but... No bueno.

Still useless. Wont connect to a phone to transfer music so is completely useless really!!!!! Albums don't group together, they list each track as an individual album in 'albums'. Needs a dark mode on PC and Android. Interface is archaic. The PC app is also no where near as good as the previous 'media go' app. Xperia 1, 9.0.

This is the music player I've been crying for in years from Sony. The main feature I like about it, is its crossfading effect. I know one day this can be the default Sony Music app, but if you can add timer to it that would be great. Another problem I have with the player is that it's not loading playlists inside the phone. Please look into it!

How can that has a 4 stars rating? Using this with a Sony Bluetooth speaker that I bought. Does not even have play, pause, previous and next song buttons. Interface to increase/decrease (+/-) sound is one step at the time. Very annoying. FM tuner is a real joke. Recording preset stations is a real pain and must be done manually. No automatic scan. Is this really Sony? Sony has become very low quality in both hardware and software.

Great sound and always connects no problem to my speaker. One complain though, I would like the choice of much finer EQ control. I find that I often want to tune my sound more finely than simply low, mid and high. I also find that when playing music, sometimes trying to go into my bluetooth speakers audio settings will cause it to disconnect. Small issue, but there nonetheless. Other than that, easy to use and works well.

Worst. App. Ever. I constantly have to re-setup my wireless surround speakers every time there's an update to this POS. Every time I go through setup, I'm reminded of how confusing and unintuitive it is. Garbage! There are so many other problems, I'll never buy another Sony product after this.

Why does the app never see my speaker when my phone is connected to it? It always forces me to click the greyed out speaker icon, which reconnects it, pausing my music or videos every time. The headphones app doesn't have this problem, it always just connects to the headphones without losing the audio. Surely it's possible to achieve the same with the Bluetooth speaker too? Interface and access to options, some of the most commonly used ones being hidden away, are terrible too.

If I could get away with using my radio without the app, I would. Every time they update my phone plays through "app" and I have to figure out how to get it out of that, like now. I recently updated my phone and use has never been more seamless with playback, song info, etc. Stop pushing your app

I am confused that I must be missing something.... I have been all around this app looking for a functionality that even comes close to Sony's Music app on the Xperia phone. Clunky 3 steps to get to songs list, a lack of options and can't even correctly read the MP3 files on my phone (20% show as various) . The standard Sony Xperia MUSIC app by comparison is so smooth, reads all files correctly, connects Bluetooth and greater options. I don't understand how music centre is such a backward step

I loaded both apps as recommend by reviews. I can get the USB to load and scroll but can not get the file to play. They are in the correct file format. This is a pain to scroll through on the stereo it self. This is one reason why I bought this unit because of the app. Also the app shuts down my stereo and did a total rest to the stereo. I had the speakers and EQ set perfect. This app needs refining or updates. I am kinda wishing I bought a JVC but to late.

Dreadful control over the latest amp strdn1080. Gets confused between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi control. Options greyed out like zone 2 when they shouldn't be. Pretty rubbish to say it's the latest app talking to the latest amplifier. Update December 2019 - nothing fixed, Sony totally ignore the fact their products just don't work properly. Best advice is not to buy a Sony amp, I'm definitely regretting my purchase.

1. Songs played faster than normal, unable to play in normal speed. So, currently useless app till the problem resolved. 2. If small equlizer provided in this app then listening experience will become awesome.. 3. Kindly add Simple Control for surround sound effect. And also add the effect like hall, room, auditorium, swing etc.... But most important is how to play songs in normal speed. Kindly resolve this issue ASAP.

Not sure what is going on, system has gone to bad. Only reason it's 2 star is because it use to work. Now flatly fail, it's dependent on Google Home is a total failure. Speakers shows availability but will not play and revert you to Google Home which doesn't recognize speakers. I used to have 4 speakers connected through out the house, now I am down to 2 speakers recognize in a group. Shows available for casting, but will not play. I should have paid extra and gotten Sonos.

This app is ok when it works. However it is hopelessly unstable. Sometimes it will connect correctly to your speakers and the next it can't find them, or maybe it does but not the pair. Other times even though your speakers are connected you can't play anything on them. Furthermore, often the sound keeps fading in and out between the speakers. And its no good going the Help section because that is hopelessly confused, just like the app itself. Sept 2019: It is still hopeless/useless.

I love the speakers themselves (SRS ZR5). But this app is horrendous. You would think Sony would have a better UI on an app necessary to join two wireless speakers in stereo. This is just horrible. The speakers always go in and out of connectivity on the app, although they work near perfectly through Chromecast over network. Please please please revamp the app and bluetooth functionality. The hardware is great, but the software meeds work.

A music player should be able to give the best sound quality, the other features such as visual effects, connectivity and interface should be established on this basis. After comparing more than five the most recommended and popular applications, I found that the Music Center gives out the best bass resolution, I can identify each low bass note and write the note down. In most other apps I can feel only the strong bass wave but all the notes were mixed, they damaged the precious work of musicians.

some loser at sony decided this was better than media go and it is the most backward thing i have used like rating a song is buried ten clicks deep in menus and media go had a check mark indicating which files had been transfered. this thing will dupe files and organizational it is just bad all around. less functional than drag and drop, music center is a virus like hiv. don't use this or you will die.

overall the app sort of works as expected, a more accurate depiction is when you get it to work, it's great, but otherwise it's a painful process to get multiple speakers connected, in sync, and stay that way. We often experience one speaker will connect and the others won't or 2 speakers connect but the third won't. Additionally, the app is very slow/delayed (2-5 minutes) to load, connect, or respond when connecting or configuring settings. This happens on both Android and iPhone versions.

horrible, no matter what I try from factory resets, to turning off Nfc, I cant get this app to pair with my Sony xb41. thankfully, I can use the damn speaker without using this app, but unfortunately that also means that i can't use some of the features of my speaker. if you are unsure of whether to buy JBL or Sony, I've heard the JBL ecosystem is a lot friendlier. Sony, just fix whatever the issue is

This app is great and everything I just wish you can do a little more with the XB-41 and XB-31's lights. However, I have this huge problem with this app. When I connect any other bluetooth device to my phone, it disables the sound completely on my bluetooth device for some reason. Even on my wired earbuds sometimes as well. I don't know why it is but I've made sure it was this app that was causing it. I have to the go on my bluetooth settings and turn off media sound and back on for it to work.

has some functionality with lighting controls but it's very limited. Can't turn off middle lights while leaving the surrounding ones on, or vice-versa. Also no option to dim the lights if they are too bright (can only turn them completely off, no inbetween). I'm using it for SRS-XB41 btw.

This used to be great. Now when i change apps to choose music, if i go back to this app, it disconnects from the device. When selecting the device to reconnect, the brief disconnect causes music apps to pause the music. It's extremely frustrating! And I'm using an Xperia with two different Sony devices. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still get the same problem.

I am using it with my xb31,everything is well and good the lightning effects are also good but they must provide an option for controlling a particular color light as per our choice. Rest of it is just outstanding, its awesome. As i am using sony products from a long time ago for that reason just take into consideration and Please add the option to control a single color light in the Illumination section, its a request from one of your consumers.

awesome speakers that only only sound awesome with this app. unfortunately this app works not at all under Android 9 Pie. since there isn't a windows, osx, or linux version youll be stuck with expensive, pretty, muffled-sounding paperweights unless you happen upon a combination of Android and phone that works. very disappointed in this half-baked software. at least they could publish a $pec so we could write something that actually works...but that wont happen.

The app doesn't let you switch between the aux-cable and bluetooth mode on the SRS-XB 31 as mentioned on the help guide of the speaker. It only switches from bluetooth to aux input, not the other way around. SRS XB31 -> Help guide -> Listening to music of portable device: "Even when the audio cable is connected, you can switch to the Bluetooth mode on Sony Music center and listen to the bluetooth device"

Unbelievably bad. Stealing our money with this app. In terms of the actual speakers the sound is more than acceptable. However, this app is a deal breaker. Additionally, when using party chain the sync constantly drops. Maybe best if you look elsewhere. Edit. I had to buy a couple of chromecast audios to allow multi room.

Typical Sony as it has been since the 80es: absolutely amazing hardware, dreadful software and experience. I bought a pair of XB31 to have a stereo setup, with the idea of pairing them with several devices, all things that were possible according to the online articles. Well, it is, if you're willing to fight with Bluetooth pairing each and every time you turn the bloody things on: you connect to a speaker, the other one "needs setup", and setting it up sends the first ine in the same state...

Sony only has a built in app for changing speaker lights and sound settings such as bass to collect your information and gain access to the contacts and information in your mobile device, they could easily design buttons on the external speaker for these settings but purposely choose not to do so to have access to personal information they can sell to advertisors and solicitors.... be better sony, you guys are supposed to be the best, act like it. you make enough money off of us already

The app is OK but it keeps failing to connect to my LG NAS where I store my music. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I can connect to music on NAS using file manager and am able to cast it to my Sony music system. It is irritating and it annoys me when support suggest it's a NAS or router issue. can't be really or I wouldn't be able to connect using android file manager.

I like the app but the reason for the giving it two out of five stars is because I am tired the app skipping to the next song or previous song if I tap slightly outside of the volume buttons with phone in landscape. There have been many updates and none have addressed it and I've asked for it to be addressed. I also would like for the buttons to be bigger for volume, track skip and play buttons because I use this app to connect to my head unit in my car.

Hi, I've got 2 Sony car radios which are both less than a year old and I've got a Sony phone so this app was a logical add on/upgrade, which worked really well for the first few months then the app got updated and since been completely useless, I can still use the phone like standard bluetooth devices. So it's disappointing that a brand like Sony can update an app and which now won't work with they own devices, hopefully it'll be updated again soon and start working. when it works it's great.

After the recent update, app become unstable. specailly with BDV-N9200W. When I try to connect via Bluetooth it connects successfully. However device doesn't appear on speaker list in app. I can only play songs through default Music app by Sony for android OS (named Walkman previously). Please fix it as soon as possible. Please

Sadly, I encounter continuous connection errors: I'm unable to increase or decrease the volume via the app, the app disconnects from the speaker frequently, and sometimes can't establish a connection at all. This leaves the actual speaker out of control, playing media previously selected (via aux and bluetooth) without me being able to intervene with the app. Therefore, I can't recommend this app.

Metadata doesn't download. So if you're using a micro sd card. Or any other external storage to play music., more often than not it won't pull any Metadata. So you might not see artist, song name, album artwork, or you might just see a bunch of "unknown artist" songs. For those of us playing off of more than 10 gigs of music in stored form ...that's a big problem . Other than that it's ok.

Put this app on my phone to control the srsxb31 sony bluetooth speaker. Does the basics ok. Does the remote settings for the speaker too. Missing a much more involved ui for song selection/playlist. On creation you can select more than one song, but there isnt customization for viewing song length etc. Makes it difficult to see if you only want long mixes. After playlist has been created there doesn't appear to be multi select to add into playlist, just the pop up on the song. For playback I'm returning to pulsar. For controlling sony product, very good.

Wow this app is bad, wasting alot of time everytime i use it. This is NOT what i expected from sony. Fex, u press 1 time on audio in, it changes the line in to the minijack in the back i guess...BUT how do you go back??? Had to turn off then on again the speaker to reset it (xb41) really frustrating to use, some must have slept when devloping this app

Maybe could do with more control over the light show in SRS-XB series portable speakers, user defined light sequences, colours, etc. The app itself is extremely clunky, and could do with a battery level readout on the main screen, like the JBL app has, I also own a JBL speaker, and the ability to rename the device with the app, other than that, I dont really have any other problems, also would be much better if it didn't self launch, as this causes the phone to slow down.

I love the control functionality with my xb41 bluetooth speaker..but the app lacks the simplicity I'm used to with my paid music app. I mean come on sony....a 3 band EQUALIZER...and the having to shift back to a home screen to change ANY setting...all the hard work you've done on this and that's the best you could come up with?...If they would make a better app with premium features I'd gladly pay for it.

This app and connectivity of my sony Bluetooth speaker are the worst things I have ever bought. Speaker can not keep itself connected to any Bluetooth device. App loses speaker settings and you have to make setup again and again. I didn't buy wireless headset because i didnt trust sony, I should do it with Bluetooth speaker too. Its my biggest mistake.

Overall app works okay, but sometimes Bluetooth reconnects if I open the app and try to change some settings. Also I have to disable lights every time I connect to speaker, this is most inconvenient thing for me. If I set lights off that means I want it to be off till I switch it on !