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Contributor I
August 14, 2023
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Skipping tracks

  • August 14, 2023
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From time to time my sonos starts skipping the tracks after playing approx one minute of a track. This loop continues until I power off/on the unit. Then it plays ok a few days and then starts the loop again.

Any ideas?

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Best answer by Corry P

Hi @Jorgen Nielsen 

As discussed by our smorgasbord of community experts here, there are several reasons why you could be experiencing the problems you describe.

I do recommend you test disabling the Crossfade feature, as suggested by @sjw, as there is a known bug regarding Crossfade and Spotify at present - if that solves the issue, I recommend you leave Crossfade disabled for the time being.

There is also the possibility that there are local network issues - if sources other than Spotify play without issue, it’s less likely that this is the case. 

It’s also not impossible that there is a hardware-related issue - some of our older players now struggle with Spotify and a few other sources. Making your Connect a member of a group led by a newer player could resolve this for you.

For a definitive answer, however, I recommend you get in touch with our technical support team who have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your Sonos system and what it reports - the Connect’s logs should contain the answer.

I hope this helps.

15 replies

Airgetlam
August 15, 2023

The simple response is there is no electronic system, using a network based solution for connection, that doesn’t change. The change could be local, as in caused by an update to your router, or even your router attempting to deal with new sources of interference, or it could hope outside, with potential changes to DNS information, or the streaming server itself being updated for some reason. 
 

There is zero reason to think that merely because it has worked in the past, and you made no changes, that there weren’t any changes. Easy to accept that you made no changes, a lot more difficult to comprehend a completely static network. 

Bruce
Corry P
Corry PAnswer
Sonos Staff
August 25, 2023

Hi @Jorgen Nielsen 

As discussed by our smorgasbord of community experts here, there are several reasons why you could be experiencing the problems you describe.

I do recommend you test disabling the Crossfade feature, as suggested by @sjw, as there is a known bug regarding Crossfade and Spotify at present - if that solves the issue, I recommend you leave Crossfade disabled for the time being.

There is also the possibility that there are local network issues - if sources other than Spotify play without issue, it’s less likely that this is the case. 

It’s also not impossible that there is a hardware-related issue - some of our older players now struggle with Spotify and a few other sources. Making your Connect a member of a group led by a newer player could resolve this for you.

For a definitive answer, however, I recommend you get in touch with our technical support team who have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your Sonos system and what it reports - the Connect’s logs should contain the answer.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
Corry P
Sonos Staff
August 28, 2023

Hi @Jorgen Nielsen 

Apologies - the issue with Spotify skipping when Crossfade is enabled was in fact resolved on the 22nd of this month.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
Contributor I
August 28, 2023

What is crossfade?

Corry P
Sonos Staff
August 28, 2023

Hi @Jorgen Nielsen 

Crossfade is where the next track starts playing a few seconds early and the current track and the next track are faded together. As the issue with it is now resolved, it cannot be the cause of what you are reporting (assuming you’ve seen the issue since the most recent update).

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein