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controlav
Lead Maestro
August 13, 2026
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Amazon service update broke Collections on Desktop app

  • August 13, 2026
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My system just picked up the Amazon service changes. However, the Desktop app has an empty “Collections” section at the root of the object tree. Mobile shows Library / Explore Podcasts / User Playlists which I assume is correct.

Best answer by Liz P.

I bubbled this up to the team for them to take a look into. Thanks for the callout, ​@controlav. 

19 replies

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
August 14, 2026

If you reauthorize Amazon does it help? Fixed my Amazon issues here.

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-and-music-services-229131/amazon-mising-from-search-6934526

 

Airgetlam
August 14, 2026

That’s odd, I’ve always thought data collection was at the product (speaker) level, and the resulting data was pushed to the controller for display. But you would know better than I. 

The only thing I could assume, under that scenario, is the data format has changed in some way, that the desktop client can’t understand…but we’re getting way out of my comfort zone, and you’re much more equipped to understand any changes that may have been made in the data. 

Bruce
controlav
controlavAuthor
Lead Maestro
August 14, 2026

Did some more testing: “Collections” returns zero items for Desktop, and also the root enumerator is returning .svgs for the top level item graphics instead of bitmaps (the Desktop controller can’t render svgs). Seems like someone forgot to test the updated Amazon endpoint against the desktop controllers.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
controlav
controlavAuthor
Lead Maestro
August 14, 2026

If you reauthorize Amazon does it help? Fixed my Amazon issues here.

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-and-music-services-229131/amazon-mising-from-search-6934526

Sadly made no difference.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Smilja
August 14, 2026

​@controlav, Did you try resetting the Desktop Controller (under “Help”).

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controlav
controlavAuthor
Lead Maestro
August 15, 2026

​@controlav, Did you try resetting the Desktop Controller (under “Help”).

No, as I can see exactly where the API is failing (in my own apps) and have zero need to “reset” the Sonos app (which does nothing for this).

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
controlav
controlavAuthor
Lead Maestro
August 16, 2026

I debugged this further: Amazon’s root json object includes 3 children from “container”, and the mobile apps (and SonoPhone) use this, and it works.

However, the SMAPI call getMetadata(“container”) returns 0 children, and the Desktop apps (and my apps too) use this, and don’t work.

If Sonos/Amazon want the Desktop apps to still work correctly then the SMAPI server needs to be fixed. It seems that Sonos themselves might own this code, and not Amazon, but it’s not entirely clear to me.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Liz P.
Liz P.Answer
Sonos Staff
August 18, 2026

I bubbled this up to the team for them to take a look into. Thanks for the callout, ​@controlav. 

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Contributor I
August 19, 2026

I mostly use the desktop app, so not being to access the User Playlists is ‘unhelpful’.  wasn’t sure what the issue was, until I found this topic - thanks ​@controlav for debugging this and hope for a fix soon.

Contributor I
August 19, 2026

I also mostly use the desktop app, and not having Amazon Music collections available makes Sonos pretty useless. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Sonos and deleted and re-added Amazon Music, and now see that I’m not the only one with this problem. Will there be a notice from Sonos with this is resolved?