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Imported Playlist on Android will not add or play

  • April 2, 2026
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MoPac
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  • MoPac
  • Headliner III
  • May 8, 2026

Thanks for the suggestion - unfortunately I’ve got a library of nearly 20k tracks, and I’ve had some fairly poor experiences with using software to try and match them (eg importing playlists to Spotify) as it often can’t identify the correct / specific version of a track that I need.

It’s a reasonable expectation that Sonos should acknowledge the issue and give us a timeline for a resolution.

This is functionality that was deliberately restored to the iOS app last year, so I can’t imagine it has been removed deliberately; it’s a bug and it needs to be fixed!

I wasn’t suggesting you do XML to Spotify.  I was thinking you could convert the XML playlist to a M3U playlist file and have Sonos index the M3U playlist files rather than Sonos indexing the XML playlist files.  I’m not positive Tune My Music can make that XML to M3U conversion, but that is what I have read.  I will be investing in Tune My Music just to hopefully archive my Amazon & Apple user generated playlists in the M3U file format.

Airgetlam

And, like many, many other software companies, Sonos never offers a timeline for bug fixing. 

Bruce
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Thanks for the suggestion - unfortunately I’ve got a library of nearly 20k tracks, and I’ve had some fairly poor experiences with using software to try and match them (eg importing playlists to Spotify) as it often can’t identify the correct / specific version of a track that I need.

It’s a reasonable expectation that Sonos should acknowledge the issue and give us a timeline for a resolution.

This is functionality that was deliberately restored to the iOS app last year, so I can’t imagine it has been removed deliberately; it’s a bug and it needs to be fixed!

I wasn’t suggesting you do XML to Spotify.  I was thinking you could convert the XML playlist to a M3U playlist file and have Sonos index the M3U playlist files rather than Sonos indexing the XML playlist files.  I’m not positive Tune My Music can make that XML to M3U conversion, but that is what I have read.  I will be investing in Tune My Music just to hopefully archive my Amazon & Apple user generated playlists in the M3U file format.

Spotify promote a link to Tune My Music as a way of importing your music collection onto their platform (including the facility to upload your own local iTunes Library XML file).

I’ve used it myself in the past to recreate some of my playlists on Spotify so that I could stream them to an older Sonos Playbar (which doesn’t support AirPlay).

However the process was pretty time-consuming as I had to identify and replace hundreds of tracks that the software could not match correctly. I also couldn’t see any way of using Tune My Music to save the playlists it extracted from my iTunes Library XML file back onto my local system as M3U files.

I’m aware that I can just use the Music app to export individual playlists as M3U files - but as I have over 100 playlists, it’s not practical to keep doing this on a regular basis.

The Sonos desktop app can still read the playlists from my iTunes Library XML file - the iOS apps should be doing it as well.

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And, like many, many other software companies, Sonos never offers a timeline for bug fixing. 

Acknowledging the issue would be a good start! 😉 However, as far as I can see there is no official comment from Sonos anywhere on this thread…?

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Grand Maestro
  • May 8, 2026

There rarely are official comments, this is a user forum.

Official responses are best sought from Support.

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