Just tried the double quotation marks “artist” and it does work. Annoying

Hi @shadester 

Thank you! I’ll feed this info back to the engineers.

Any artist with a non-alphanumeric character eg Wham!, AC/DC, Hi-Tension work fine. Everyone else, no go. Seems like a bug in Sonos app…?

If it were a bug in the Sonos app, wouldn’t it be affecting all streamers, and not just Spotify? Since all streaming music companies in the Sonos ecosystem use the same software API?

I have this issue.

Searching on Sonos (Windows and android) for Spotify does yield any results when specifying artist, although it still works ok with albums, songs and playlists.

I’ve tried rebooting all speakers, my router and reauthorising spoitfy within my sonos app….it’s broken.

Hi All,

My colleague has expressed some interest in getting some diagnostics from anyone affected by this issue who has rebooted all their speakers since my last post here (when some changes had just been made). It’s been reported that the changes did not help, so some new diagnostics taken after that point would be very helpful to us in trying to ascertain what the problem is.

So, could anyone who would like to assist please submit a support diagnostic and reply here with the number given? As long as you have rebooted all your speakers since yesterday.

Thank you for your help.

568966790 is my diagnostics.

Same here. Started today. 

What is your diagnostic number for your submission?

submitted diagnostics! Your confirmation number is: 1207226975

I can confirm I have the exact same issue. I have removed and re-added Spotify from my system.

Only a complete band name in double quotes or a bandname with special characters in it returns any results. If I just put in a bandname or partial bandname, no results.

I have the same issue with S1.  Using “” works, but frustrating.  All devices reset last night and Spotify account removed and re-added.  Diagnostics number is 289013376

The search in my iOS app (updated to latest) is not working either. If I search an artist it pops up results for one second and then disappears to the spinning wheel with “Searching in Artist everywhere...” and doesn’t return anything. I’ve force quiet everything, reauthorized services, restarted my network, restarted each speaker, etc

Updating the app (Sonos) won’t change the data being sent by Spotify. 

Issue appears fixed.  Thanks Sonos

I also tried and now the search seems to work fine (I live in Finland). Thanks! 

Thanks Sonos. Artst search is working again for me.

Fixed for me too :-)

Thanks for the fix. Just out of curiosity: Did Sonos fix it, or was it Spotify?

Artist Search stopped working for me too. Need a fix ASAP 

Using “” has fixed it for me

This would have been a fix implemented by Spotify. 

Fixed for me too - all seems normal/working. Thank you Sonos and/or Spotify! And thanks to this community for highlighting the problem

Hi @Sheppity 

As you are the only person who reported the issue here after everyone else reported that it was fixed, could you please test once more and let me know if this issue has been resolved for you or not? Thanks!

Fixed now. Cheers!