Network Audio Remote

*Please update the app!!!* Love getting most utility from Sony SA-NS500 as network speakers & WDTV live hub media server. Pl update: Ability to i) rate song upto 5 stars ii) add to playlist from onscreen play iii) delete from playlist/library/server, while listening, iv) change favorites limited from 100 songs only, v) add Now Playing button, vi) make smart playlist within the App but allow ability to export those playlist. Sony, Pl take care of these features for 5 stars! Alternative app: BubbleUPnP is excellent but they lack party stream support.

Lately this app has been chewing through my battery, has never been up to exceptions for a Sony product. Can't close it properly, devices take ages to appear in the list, limited functionality. Hasn't been update in a long time since Sony removed the V tuner support on their Networked Stereos. If there was another option I wouldn't be using this app

Works OK when it feels like it, but 9 times out of 10 can't find my NAS-SV20Di on the network for no apparent reason, making it useless. (Much later addition): is this ever going to work with up-to-date Android versions? Didn't with Marshmallow and doesn't with Nougat :-(

Come on Sony, this app needs updating/fixing as it is! Tracking down huge battery drain points to this app constantly waking phone and preventing it from deep sleeping - found by tracing traffic to/from phone and seems to be app pinging the amp all the time. If I close this app I want it closed, not sitting in my notification bar destroying my battery!! I love the functionality; when it works.

...completely drains phone battery. Controls the volume of the Sony app but why can't you turn it off? No need to be constantly on wasting battery. Not very impressed with Sony

After little over a year the useless app became even more useless rendering my SA NS510 - which I bought mainly for streaming radio -useless. Terrible support Sony and the first/last wireless product purchased from Sony.

Very poor app. Try to use this with non Sony products, and you are out of luck. Vtuner don't work. Remind me why I bought a Sony Stereo???? Poor decision.

Useless. Used this for streaming internet radio stations, which they stopped to support. Now my network speakers only works with airplay/itunes.

I like this app and my network speaker. Although the interface could be a bit easier to use.

This app will drain your battery extremely quickly unless you force stop it after EVERY use. Exiting the application is not enough.

Please allow Spotify to run on this app now that music unlimited has gone. I have the sa-ns510 speaker.

App is terrible, doesn't work at all, makes the added function of the speaker absolutely useless

This app doesn't qork. Crashes every time when I get song to play

It works fine except for being able to actually play or even read the phone's memory..

It will not load all tracks of the selected album. This was so good and is now useless. Sony is a good product but this is now a disaster. It's useless.

I gave the network Audio Remote a try and I must say it's a wonderful app just work on the maturity level

Truly this is the worst android app that I have ever seen. It does nothing that you would expect it to do. Update: installed BubbleUPnP and it just works flawlessly. Sony should go hire those developers...NO WAIT! Don't do that!!

Having owned a number of sony homeshare products (NAS 510 & 410, STR-DN 1030) for a few years there is no longer any Internet connectivity to Sony Music Unlimited or Vtuner. Where is the support from Sony for previous systems?

Sony has excelled at creating an instant obsolete app/support for its supposed to be top of the range sonos like product! This app is fleamsy to say the least, unreliable at best, unable to stay connected to a media server etc... I spent a fortune buying the Sony top of the range wireless speakers (ns510 and ns310) and a dlna bluray player, with in mind to listen to music wherever and whenever in my house. How wrong was I! This app no longer support the Sony Entertainment System, and even Vtuner! Rubbish!

Love getting most utility from Sony SA-NS500 as network speakers & WDTV live hub media server. Pl update: Ability to i) rate song upto 5 stars ii) add to playlist ii) delete from playlist/library/server, while listening, iv) change favorites limited to 100 songs only, v) add Now Playing button, vi) fix app showing in notification bar in Android, Have to force close it always. Sony, Pl take care of these features for 5 stars! Alternative app: BubbleUPnP but they lack party stream support.

The vTuner section of the app seems to function only within very strict constraints, and could use a major overhaul. The browser is slow and oftentimes does not load all radio stations available; what makes it worse is that searching stations is limited to those loaded, so if the browser fails, there is no way a particular station you are looking for (and you know is there) can be streamed or added to Favorites. The design lags far behind current standards, and the app needs to be manually forced to close (?!) in order for it to be removed from memory. Other than that, the app works ok-ish; please Sony, I like the hardware, but this could be so much better!

Used to be a half decent app. However, since the last update it won't detect my devices and support for vTuner has been pulled. Time to move to another manufacturer (probably Arcam or Denon).

Seems I have purchased a brick since this app does not find any music on my phone.

I just bought a Sony audio and wanted to listen Internet radio. Based on the manual, using this application is the only way to do it. But it still doesn't work with Android 4.4. Come on Sony, are you serious? You are selling this product but left your users alone. Update : finally it started working on Android 4.4. But the list of Internet radio stations was cut dramatically. I paid a lot for you Sony for something you cannot make working. I promise I will never ever do so again.

Love getting most utility from Sony SA-NS500 as network speakers & WDTV live hub media server. Pl update: Ability to i) rate song upto 5 stars ii) add to playlist, iii) delete from playlist/library/server, while listening, iv) Favorites limited to 100 songs only, increase to 1000, v) add Now Playing button, vi) fix app showing in notification bar in Android, Have to force close it always. Sony, Pl take care of these features, I'll be with 5 stars! Alternative: BubbleUPnP but they lack party stream support.

Come on Sony, either give us an app that functions properly or don't give us one at all. I've tried to use this with the dn-1040 and it is the crappest app out there. Not to mention you need to use a second app (tv sideview) to control some functionality of the amp, and this one you have to force close every time it's used. Sony get your act together as you're about to lose a loyal customer.

It sees my music collection on the NAS, it sees the Sony SA-NS310. I can add tracks from my music to a playlist, but this only works for MP3 files I have downloaded from Amazon. It won't work for any of my OGG files. The interface's ergonomy is terrible. But I could just about live with that if the device would just play my music.

Can not detect my Sony receiver as it did before :-P Please fix the issue!

Come on Sony, this app needs updating/fixing as it is! Tracking down huge battery drain points to this app constantly waking phone and preventing it from deep sleeping - found by tracing traffic to/from phone and seems to be app pinging the amp all the time. If I close this app I want it closed, not sitting in my notification bar destroying my battery!! I love the functionality; when it works.

Great app when it used to work, although some functionalities could always be added to make it much superior. I've been seeing that Sony recognizes that the app doesn't work consistently with Android 4.4 onward for the last one quarter. Unfortunately, they have done NOTHING AT ALL to fix it. All my Sony SA-NS500 are rendered useless bcoz I cannot use the app to stream music on these speakers. The app works well with iOS devices and can be rated an easy 4/5. However it's 0 on Android for it keeps crashing!

It's OK, pretty basic. But it's telling me vtuner is offline for 3 weeks now. SA-NS410 network speaker. As vtuner is the only radio service it can use, it makes my speaker a very expensive ornament!

Very basic internet radio doesn't work can u fix please

Why oh why can't I stream music from my phone?! All I seem to be able to do is pause/next/prev while playing mp3s off USB and change the volume... but only after I use the normal remote to switch to USB. I can use the normal remote for all that. The app isn't very intuitive either.

Despite being updated the app is out of date re certain stations plus app is very slow. I hope Sony update it soon. ***UPDATE*** Pointless downloading this app has there has been no internet radio stations available on Sony products for weeks now!!! There has been no answer from Sony has to when they will return so avoid buying ANY Sony internet radio products!

Internet radio (vtuner) service offline = rubbish.

vTuner not working. Therefore what good is this app?

Works OK when it feels like it, but 9 times out of 10 can't find my NAS-SV20Di on the network for no apparent reason, making it useless.

Keeps disappearing from my network, shame as not bad otherwise

This application sucks. You can't do much with it. I can't even listen to free Internet music of my choice.

Useless