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Searching for a song within Playlists

  • February 4, 2021
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  • Contributor II
  • 5 replies

Can anybody tell me how to find specific songs within Playlists?  I find that often songs are repeated in Playlists and I want to be able to find if a song is already in a Playlist. Thks

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Xander P
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  • Retired Sonos Staff
  • 553 replies
  • February 8, 2021

Hi @JdeW, welcome to the Sonos Community!


Are you referring to Sonos playlists? If so, then aside from manually checking the contents of that playlist, I don't believe it is currently possible to search within a Sonos playlist - however I'll be happy to put this forward as a feature request on your behalf :)


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  • Contributor II
  • 5 replies
  • February 8, 2021

Yes, I am referring to Sonos Playlists.  I want to be able to search the playlists to see if a specific song is there.  I would not have thought it to be that difficult a feature to incorporate….   


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  • Local Superstar
  • 1793 replies
  • February 8, 2021

No, Sonos do not provide any functionality to search Sonos Playlists.  It's been asked for many, many times over many, many years.


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  • Contributor II
  • 5 replies
  • February 8, 2021

So what is the business rationale for not satisfying your customers’ demands then?!


controlav
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  • Lead Maestro
  • 7872 replies
  • February 8, 2021

You can export your Sonos playlists as text using my app (see profile), then search those using a text editor.


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  • Contributor II
  • 5 replies
  • February 8, 2021

Thanks for the heads -up


  • Lyricist I
  • 1 reply
  • March 13, 2021

What works for me: I use Windows media player. I can see all my Sonos devices there. I doubleclick on one of them and then select playlists. I select the playlist and I can then search for an artist to see if I have not already included the song in the playlist.