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tech74not
Contributor I
Dec 11, 2022 4:07 PM UTC

Deleting a song from Sonos

You can’t delete a song from Sonos.  Sonos is grabbing the song from your source, which could be a disc or a streaming service like Pandora, Tidal, etc.  You need to go back to the source, likely on a PC or computer, and delete it there. 

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Airgetlam
Airgetlam
Dec 12, 2022 12:21 AM UTC

Depends on which playlist you’re using. If it’s a playlist created in Sonos, you certainly can modify that playlist.

 If it’s a playlist that was created externally, Sonos doesn’t normally have ‘permission’ to change an external source file.

 

See: here and possibly here.

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Bruce
    tech74notAuthor
    Contributor I
    Dec 12, 2022 1:49 PM UTC

    Good point, Bruce.

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      rabaak
      Lyricist I
      Jan 27, 2024 3:23 PM UTC

      Ok,I have a song on Sonos that distorts badly. But the  Apple Music version of the song, where Sonos got the song, plays fine.

      I would like Sonos to reacqire the song from Apple music. But since Sonos already has the song, it won’t try to reacquire a good version of the song from Apple Music.

      Any ideas??

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      106rallye
      106rallye
      Jan 27, 2024 6:05 PM UTC

      As I understand it Sonos does not “have” a song when you play it. Sonos plays what it gets from your music provider. If something’s wrong with the song, it there that something’s wrong. The fact the songs sounds right when you play it direct from the music provider does not necessarily mean anything…..

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        rabaak
        Lyricist I
        Jan 27, 2024 7:06 PM UTC

        As I understand it Sonos does not “have” a song when you play it. Sonos plays what it gets from your music provider. If something’s wrong with the song, it there that something’s wrong. The fact the songs sounds right when you play it direct from the music provider does not necessarily mean anything…..

        Seems like they both should be playing from the same physical file on my Mac then. The Song is on my Mac Pro in the Apple Music app which I downloaded a long time ago from the iTunes store.

        So I’m still confused why it plays fine on Apple Music and is distorted when Sonos plays it.

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