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buff5799
Contributor I
January 22, 2020

Exporting Sonos playlists

  • January 22, 2020
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I am a little shocked that Sonos still hasn’t provided a way to export a playlist yet. I have invested a lot into the speaker system because of the quality however being restricted like this is discerning to say the least. I am not sure what the point is now in creating a Sono playlist ever and I’ll keep to only using Spotify or Apple musics playlist features. Sonos I would highly recommend you invest in this feature moving forward. 

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    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    January 22, 2020

    Why would Sonos be interested in doing that?

    buff5799Author
    Contributor I
    January 22, 2020

    ...so I can export my playlist to any other music service. So I can create playlists based on my home computer music files but also listen to the same playlist with other music sources. Does that answer your question? 

      Stanley_4
      Stanley_4
      Grand Maestro
      January 23, 2020

      Nope, that is why you want it, not Sonos.

      buff5799Author
      Contributor I
      January 23, 2020

      Gee, Stanley, thanks for confirming I should have invested into a Bose sound system instead of being restricted by Sonos software. 

        Stanley_4
        Stanley_4
        Grand Maestro
        January 23, 2020

        Maybe you can help me here, I can’t find a way to export playlists from Bose, do you have anything that tells me how to do it? I can find import instructions but not export.

          john.bur
          Lyricist I
          January 27, 2020

          @Stanley_4 why are you being so obtuse and unhelpful?

          Wanting to export a Sonos queue or playlist is a perfectly reasonable request. 

          My scenario would be when we have added tracks to a Sonos queue and want to save it to Tidal or Deezer or wherever for playing in the car or elsewhere at a later date. At the moment we are stuck with it existing in Sonos only. 

          There are plenty of tools to transfer playlists between music services, so why not Sonos? Duh! 

            fosseboy
            Trending Lyricist I
            February 8, 2020

            Completely forgot about this problem - just spent an hour making up a playlist for a party tonight and now I cannot export it to a usb or itunes to take to my friend. Ugh!!

            Having to start again.  With itunes. Same music library on same PC.

            I love my Sonos and my last speaker from 2017 is not going to be supported so I am afraid I will have to use i tunes and bluetooth in future.

             

            Really feel let down by Sonos

              controlav
              controlav
              Lead Maestro
              February 8, 2020

              Exporting a Sonos playlist as xml can be done with a simple UPnP tool and is documented on here somewhere. The hard part is importing. Each music service uses its own unique playlist format, but you can use a third party service (soundiiz) to convert it (so others have said, I have no personal experience).

              Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
              106rallye
              106rallye
              February 8, 2020

              Does not sound easy to me, but I’ve found a mention here: https://en.community.sonos.com/troubleshooting-228999/sonos-playlist-export-or-back-up-17314/index10.html

              fosseboy
              Trending Lyricist I
              February 9, 2020

              Thanks guys.

              In the end, as I was in a hurry, I left the Sonos window open, opened itunes in same screen and looked up each track from the Sonos playlist and made an itunes playlist. Highlighted that, copied to usb. Job done - the old fashioned way!!

              Sonos could have made it so much easier.

              I reckon I will be using Sonos less and less now and bluetoothing to my Bose soundbar.

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