Sony | Music Center

Sony Corporation

About this app

- The center for all music lovers -
Do you want to fully enjoy music whether at home or out and about?
Then this Sony app is exactly what you've been waiting for.
The Sony l Music Center app will singlehandedly enable you
to listen to Hi-Res sound sources in the excellent audio quality.
You can also connect to other Sony audio devices to play music in the
best possible sound field, with the settings optimized for each individual device.

To use the control function of audio devices, an audio device compatible with Sony | Music Center is required.
Please check if your audio products are compatible with Sony | Music Center from our support site.
Devices that were compatible with SongPal are compatible with Sony | Music Center as well.

Main Feature
You can playback music including Hi-Res tracks on your smartphone.
Play the music contents from CD, USB, and Smartphone.
Access music by browsing or searching music folders stored on your computer or NAS drive thru network(DLNA)*.
You can set Multi-room, Surround, Stereo wirelessly with multiple speakers.*
Change the setting on the audio device, such as Equalizer, Sleep Timer, Network* and so on.
*Limited to compatible devices.

This application supports TalkBack.

Note
* Starting with version 7.4 of this app, it is only available on Android OS 9.0 or later.
This app does not support Atom™ processor-based mobile devices.
With the update to ver.5.2, Music Center will no longer be compatible with STR-DN850/STR-DN1050/ICF-CS20BT/XDR-DS21BT.
Some features may not be supported by certain devices.
Some functions and services may not be supported in certain regions/countries.
Please make sure to update Sony | Music Center to the latest version.


Sony | Music Center confirm the permission below.

【Device & app history】
　●retrieve running apps
⇒Check if Sony | Music Center is running and launch Sony | Music Center automatically when connecting to the compatible devices or performing the initial setup.
【Photos/Media/Files】
　●test access to protected storage
【Microphone】
　●record audio
⇒Use the microphone when performing voice operation.
【Wi-Fi connection information】
　●view Wi-Fi connections
【Device ID & call information】
　●read device status and identity
⇒While Sony | Music Center is connecting to the car audio Sony | Music Center check the call status so as not to read text message during calling..

Ratings and reviews

So disappointing. Some basic functions work OK but require 2-3 times more effort than needed. The entire UI looks dated and misformatted on either Android or iOS. However, there is consistency as this Sony app is neck and neck with the Denon app I was using for 5+ years. Literally the best receiver and favorite I have owned in past 20 years gets bruised by a frustrating minimum effort to allow marketing it has an "app".

Opened this app on a new phone because I got a speaker to use for work. The app seemingly refuses to acknowledge that I've added the speaker, automatically or manually, and the troubleshooting link doesn't work. it just keeps telling me to check my internet connection, doesn't matter if my VPN is active or disconnected. Aside from that, it probably works how it did a year ago, which was good, but I can't truly tell until this speaker connects.

This app used to be great. There was an update about a year ago and ever since then it will not connect via Bluetooth. I reached out to Sony support several times and they were no help. They even sent me up to tier two support. They were no help either. I also tried different phones It's not the phones it's the app. I have to manually connect every time. I'm actually thinking since this app doesn't work well anymore I'm just going to remove it from my phone and just use another music app.

What's new

New models are now supported.