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Spotify playlist fails a few songs in with cannot find file error message

  • November 3, 2025
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I’ve seen variations of this problem specifically with spotify going back at least 4 years. Does anyone yet know if this is a sonos or spotify issue? In my case the service connects fine, but after 3 or 4 songs sonos starts skipping songs with a “file not found” error, and eventually stops after skipping several. I can correct it by manually pushing play on any song on the playlist and it resumes fine (for a short time).

Based on what I’ve read elsewhere a few clarifications:

  • affects both spotify only and mixed source playlists when spotify songs are included (and only breaks on spoitfy songs).
  • I’m using spotify as the service within the sonos app.
  • Phone or PC app does not make a difference.
  • I’ve already unplugged and rebooted the entire sonos system
  • I’ve removed and readded the spotify service
  • No other service I use (including local NAS files) has this problem
  • I have a very robust home ubiquity unifi wifi network with no connection issues on any devices and all 13 sonos speakers have reserved IP addresses, as do almost all permanent devices in my network.

I’m pretty weary of indepth troubleshooting with sonos, since I find when a problem doesn’t go away after a reboot it’s almost always a sonos-code problem that I can’t fix. Appreciate any tips or insight.

Anyone have any success streaming spotify from another app to sonos speakers to get around this? I’m finding more and more that as much as I can bypass sonos’s own app things work smoothly.

 

I miss the days when sonos was a reliable, responsive home media system. Another victim of ens***ification.

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Best answer by Sotiris C.

Hello ​@CanItJustWork, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing issues while using Playlists that include Spotify songs via the Sonos App.

Thank you for the very detailed thread, seems like you’ve completed all the basic troubleshooting steps I would have recommended.

  • affects both spotify only and mixed source playlists when spotify songs are included (and only breaks on spoitfy songs).
  • No other service I use (including local NAS files) has this problem

What happens if you create a new Playlist via the Sonos App with the exact same Spotify songs?

It seems like Spotify is having trouble “grabbing” songs from your Playlists. By creating a new playlist, Spotify should refresh the location of said songs.

 

If you are still experiencing this issue after trying the above, I would suggest you to Submit Diagnostics within 10 minutes of it occurring and then contact our Support Team for live troubleshooting.

They have tools at their disposal to provide you with advice and information specific to your Sonos system and what it reports.

I hope this helps.

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Sotiris C.
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  • November 3, 2025

Hello ​@CanItJustWork, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing issues while using Playlists that include Spotify songs via the Sonos App.

Thank you for the very detailed thread, seems like you’ve completed all the basic troubleshooting steps I would have recommended.

  • affects both spotify only and mixed source playlists when spotify songs are included (and only breaks on spoitfy songs).
  • No other service I use (including local NAS files) has this problem

What happens if you create a new Playlist via the Sonos App with the exact same Spotify songs?

It seems like Spotify is having trouble “grabbing” songs from your Playlists. By creating a new playlist, Spotify should refresh the location of said songs.

 

If you are still experiencing this issue after trying the above, I would suggest you to Submit Diagnostics within 10 minutes of it occurring and then contact our Support Team for live troubleshooting.

They have tools at their disposal to provide you with advice and information specific to your Sonos system and what it reports.

I hope this helps.