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Hi All

After a few wines last night my partner and I started using our iPhones to begin curating a queue. Problem was (yes we’d been drinking) but we both at some point tapped on a song  instead of ‘adding it’ to the queue which resulted in the entire queue being replaced by that single song. So the entire existing queue was lost, or so it seems??? We certainly couldn’t find a way to return to the queue that was just playing prior to the mistake. 
Now I know you’d argue that it was a stupid mistake of our own carelessness (and you’re right!) but I’d guess that in the case of a party happening where lots of people are trying to queue up their favourites this mistake would happen fairly often, each time resulting in the loss of a number of queued tracks and being a massive pain to the person who was trying to keep the tunes going and songs being shut off halfway through playback making for a horrible listening experience for all involved. 

Would it not be a great idea to have a failsafe pop-up that could display such as: ‘by clicking on this track, the current queue will be replaced, do you want to proceed?’ 
That way there’s much less chance of this happening and destroying the queue that has carefully been curated by the ‘DJ’ 

Or, is there a way for the ‘just played’ queue to be recovered to make amends for this mistake? 
I take full responsibility for my finger trouble but this same thing has happened SO MANY TIMES over the years using SONOS controller and I’m sure it’s a problem that has come up many times for other users as well. 
would it be possible to build in a failsafe warning or a fallback recovery of the queue PLEASE!!!! 
for all the numpties out there??? 

I've felt your pain many, many times - especially for parties where the queue is destroyed with a single click by someone wanting to add a track.

Note, there are occasions where you're warned the queue will be overwritten, I think if the queue has been edited.  If it hasn't though and you're a millimetre from pressing the 3 dots to add to the queue but press the song itself then it's all blown away that way too.  Been asked for many times but ignored unfortunately.


Thanks SJW. Appreciate the empathy! 
So this has been raised many times and never acted on????? That’s crazy! It would be such a simple fix and could be made check box  optional so that all the purists could stick to their perfect playlist procurement while those of us who have famiies and non savvy partners are protected from stupidity (while fully admitting MY finger trouble was mainly responsible). How do we raise the profile of recent posts on this topic so that someone actions this SIMPLE fix??? 
I haven’t actually seen many recent posts on this…. Hence raising this thread! 


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