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playlist scale limits

  • February 14, 2025
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Given the current inability to manipulate Sonos playlists, I looked into importing playlists. I created some with windows media player. My issue is that there seems to be a hard limit of 100 songs.  Woefully inadequate and pitiful scaling for any modern system. For any playlist larger than 100 songs, trying to play the list has it endlessly clone itself in the queue until the queue is 50000 entries or so. Same 100 song listings cloned 500 times.

At least when the queue has not been exceeded and you try to add to the queue such that it goes over 100 songs you get an error. 

so this looks like just really bad code.  When will this trivial limit be raised and when will the system not melt down when the limit is exceeded?

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buzz
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  • February 14, 2025

While I’m aware of other similar reports, I’m not having the issue. I have a bunch of playlists created before the May update. Admittedly they are strange tracks with very short metadata on my NAS. One playlist has 60,000 tracks -- yes that’s sixty thousand. I have a more civil playlist of 359 tracks, mostly from Spotify. I can load the 60,000 playlist into an empty Queue, then add the 359 track playlist. There are additional playlists that I can add to the Queue. Currently the Queue is 60,370 tracks and I can play any track.

I’m using the Windows Desktop controller to manage the Queue.

 

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  • DaveAllan0121
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  • February 14, 2025

Interesting, your post had me do a few tests.  Invoking any imported playlist that is > 100 songs from my iPad (build 80.15.4) or Google Phone (build 80.16.32) S2 client blows up and ultimately manifests itself as somewhere between 55000 to 64900 queue entries.

Starting an imported playlist with < 100 songs from the iPad or Google client then attempting to add a further imported playlist such that the sum of the two is < 100 songs is rejected with a “failed to add to queue” error, but does not blow up the queue.  I can add individual tracks and albums to the queue and exceed 100 tracks in the queue. I’ve not extensively probed the limits of a hybrid of imported playlist and individual albums and tracks.  I can similarly add larger SONOS playlists to a queue that started out with < 100 songs in an imported playlist.

Using the Window PC client (build 82360160)) to launch the same imported playlists or add further imported playlists to the end of the queue works just fine. So my experience there is similar to yours although I’ve not anywhere near approached the scale of your lists.

 

 

 

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