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help with “liking” a song - Pandora

  • December 22, 2025
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I get “operation failed” when I try to like a song on Pandora 

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Sotiris C.
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  • Sonos Staff
  • December 23, 2025

Hello ​@Lynzee, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing an issue when trying to like a song in Pandora within the Sonos App.

It is not possible for me to reproduce as I’m restricted by geo-location since I live in the UK and Pandora is not available here.

Does it go through if you attempt to like(rate) a song via the Pandora App or If you use a different device (smartphone/tablet)?

As a troubleshooting step, you can remove and re-add Pandora in the Sonos App and try again.

If you are still getting the “operation failed” error message, please contact our Support Team for live troubleshooting.

I hope this helps.


Same issue within Pandora.

App - updates

iOS - 18.2

Pandora account removed & re-added

”operation failed” when songs are liked or disliked

100% a Sonos issue.  Let’s be honest, it is.  Also why even have an option for “preferred music service” if after any update it returns to Sonos as a default.  I miss when Sonos worked well, I used to hold it on a pedestal like Lutron Homeworks/RA.  But just like RA3 and QSX depend on the cloud so does Sonos, only exception what ever cheap fly-by-night cloud Sonos uses is dark.  
 

Profits before performance & quality.


controlav
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  • Lead Maestro
  • December 26, 2025

Same issue within Pandora.

App - updates

iOS - 18.2

Pandora account removed & re-added

”operation failed” when songs are liked or disliked

100% a Sonos issue.  Let’s be honest, it is. 

100% a Pandora issue: a customer using my Sonos app reports similar behavior. Pandora’s SMAPI service seems to be returning an error. If I get time over the holidays I’ll try and dig deeper.


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  • Contributor I
  • December 26, 2025

Like/dislike works fine in the Pandora app. Just not when I’m using Pandora on Sonos app.