Feature Request: Export and Import Sonos Playlists
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Like many users, we use Sonos in two different houses. We have two NAS's of music that I'm planning on keeping synchronized with RSYNC. What doesn't sync or cant get exported are Sonos Playlists. It would be great to be able to ad-hoc export them and then to import them as well. Using the UPnP interface, I've noted a Java program that can export playlists, but importing them is a bit troublesome. It would be great to have this feature.
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My thoughts exactly.
Sonos are not listening.
They are big in this market at the moment but shouldn't sit on their laurels.
(think Lotus 123, Wordperfect, Amstrad, IBM PC, etc - where are they now?)
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
Ryan - Response appreciated.
I'm not holding my breath on this ever happening mind - and on that basis I'm opting out of this thread!
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
Thanks for your reply. I recall a response from a Sonos rep a year or two ago, so figured you were listening, but nice to know for sure. I love my speaker and the user interface, and incorporation of Rhapsody. Exporting playlists to my iPhone is the only thing I need that isn't already there.
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ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
We prefer not to say anything's impossible, as we wouldn't have made it here without pushing the limits. With the right approach, who knows what can be accomplished? There aren't any wasted efforts here as we want to know what everyone's most interested in for the future.
Following the thread and adding your support is the best way to let our team know what you'd like to see done. Keep up the positive suggestions and the feedback, we're listening.
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
Ryan, It would be nice to know where this suggestion falls. Is it even technically plausible or are your customers wasting their time writing post after post to this thread? Thanks, Shaun
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ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
Hi Chris,
This is a request that's been around for a while and we're thankful for your support. We can't get every suggestion into a new release, and not all requests are possible. But we read every message posted here, and we'll let you know in this thread if there's any news or updates on the topic.
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
Well said Beth. That's two years we've been requesting this functionality without a single response - not even from the lonely moderators.
Judging by the incomprehensive twaddle that the latest Sonos press release contained, I fear the company may have lost the plot somewhat. I do hope not - funny how my phone's dictionary tried to replace Sonos with 'Adonis '.
Sonos-really, this is ridiculous. We should be able to export our playlists and restore them after we've made network/h
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
ardware changes. It is unbecoming and ridiculous for you to continue to make people beg via this list. It's a serious shortcoming and needs to be resolved ASAP.
I have read through this item and saw a reply from Sonos saying show your support for the suggestion. OK Sonos please can we have the ability to export a playlist?
This is my number one issue in Sonos, the ability to export playlists. I would also like to be able to sort a playlist by artist, title, and album. Is any of this on the roadmap?
After 2 years you would think there would be at least a partial solution for this.
I tweeted @Sonossuport and the same happened to me H. Please add my voice as well...would really be a handy feature.
Problem is not all users (ie wife, kids and guests) have access to my itunes library but are able to maintain a playlist in Sonos using the Sonos APP. And at some point they would like to have these playlists also on their phone or MP3 player...
Some clever individuals out there have indicated that you can use Media monkey, http://www.mediamonkey.com/ to export your playlists from Sonos. I haven't tried this yet but I understand that you will need to do some work on the exported files to get the into a form which other devices can use.
Search this forum for Media monkey to see what others have said.
Rob
Isn't this to complicated for "simple" users? Why not simply have an export function in the Sonos APP (maybe only on MAC/PC that is fine)
I also have some nice Sonos Playlists i would like to export at least to get the titles in a list to be able to select them in itunes and recreate that list to export from there if needed...
Even something like: http://x.x.x.x:1400/status/tracks but than for playlists would do as a first start/feature.
Even something like: http://x.x.x.x:1400/status/tracks but than for playlists would do as a first start/feature.
I would like to export my numerous playlists to my iPhone and iPad for when I travel or exercise. Please add me to the long list of clients wanting this feature. I have had Sonos for a number of years and other than losing a speaker now and then (have to restart to get them back) I have no issues. I use my whole house system everyday and miss it when it is not available.
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Glad you got it sorted out Andrew.
When you change out your music library, your Sonos playlists should still work as long as those tracks are available on the new location. You have to go to Manage Music Library and remove the old location, then add the new one. Sometimes, you have to load the playlist back to your queue and save it again to make sure the new paths get loaded.
When you change out your music library, your Sonos playlists should still work as long as those tracks are available on the new location. You have to go to Manage Music Library and remove the old location, then add the new one. Sometimes, you have to load the playlist back to your queue and save it again to make sure the new paths get loaded.
Huge thanks, Selzhanik. I moved my entire music library to a new PC, which broke all of the playlists. Using the free version of Media Monkey and your instructions above, I had updated my playlists in a few minutes (I used PSPad for editing and search & replace). I then imported the playlists back into Sonos. You can then make them back into Sonos playlists (one by one) by finding the playlist under imported playlists, replacing the queue with that playlist, then editing the queue and saving as a new Sonos playlist.
Anyone else having problems with playlists should try this. I'm technical, but it really is quite quick & easy.
This is very poor from Sonos, though. Do they not think that people might need to move files to a new machine or NAS?
Anyone else having problems with playlists should try this. I'm technical, but it really is quite quick & easy.
This is very poor from Sonos, though. Do they not think that people might need to move files to a new machine or NAS?
I promised copies of playlists I made for our wedding to my friends for use in their wedding. I had to export it using many screen copies and cropping unnecessary info from each picture. It should be possible to at least export the list contents as a text file, preferably a CSV file with separate fields. But backup and restore are needed functions that should be possible for all.
Adding my voice to request some way to export a Sonos playlist. Even though I'm using Rhadsody within Sonos, there is no way to even add a playing song to a Rhapsody playlist. Apart from this, have been very happy with Sonos.
I contacted Sonos customer support on this issue. In reply I received a link to this thread. So, Sonos, I eagerly add my voice here, to. Please add the feature.
Sonos, please add some basic Playlist manipulation functionality that even freebies have, like Import, Export and Backup. Don't know about the Windows side of things, but on the Mac Controller a right click Reveal in Finder option on tracks would come in very handy too.
Thank you very much for the great sounding hardware with your system, however those missing options are somewhat spoiling the fun.
Thank you very much for the great sounding hardware with your system, however those missing options are somewhat spoiling the fun.
I totally agree with user 309843,
I don't want to use iTunes
I don't want to use iTunes
Good point, in my case my playlists are limited to the music I own and hence iTunes offers me 1-to-1 mapping to what I need from Sonos playlists.
Nice idea Galder but doesn't comprehensively solve the problem. Some of us create Sonos playlists on the fly that we want to save (without recreating them in iTunes) plus if you're also using songs from Napster, Spotify etc., they can't be incorporated into the iTunes playlist. SONOS - how long are you going to take to resolve this seemingly basic yet highly irritating problem?! It's letting a truly wonderful product down...
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