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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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    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 23, 2021

    You can now export your Sonos playlists easily to SoundIIZ, and then convert them to any music service: https://support.soundiiz.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018717099-Export-Sonos-playlists-and-transfer-them-with-Soundiiz

    How does having media monkey result in my playlists being exported? All it had is a link to the app not instructions. Have you tried before you recommended?

    I don’t know anything about the Media Monkey thing, but as I wrote the Phonos Plus app I would indeed recommend that. A direct link to the video on using that is https://fb.watch/3QLqvhr19C/

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
      controlav
      controlav
      Lead Maestro
      February 23, 2021

      You can now export your Sonos playlists easily to SoundIIZ, and then convert them to any music service: https://support.soundiiz.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018717099-Export-Sonos-playlists-and-transfer-them-with-Soundiiz

      And yes as mentioned above the issue is your Sonos playlists are rendered useless when you change music provider as I have from Rhapsody to lastfm to  iTunes to Google Play music to Youtubemusic to Spotify.... (Early adopter)

      No, they are not useless. Export the Sonos playlist to SoundIIZ format, then use SoundIIZ to import into your new music service.

      Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
        Michael-R
        Contributor II
        March 3, 2021

        Me, too, I wanted to be on the save side and backup and export my precious Sonos playlists. And me, too, ended up writing my own app doing just so.

        The result is called SonoSaver and can be found here in case you're interested: https://sonosaver.mrupp.ch/

        I released it as shareware, but you can choose yourself of what you think it’s worth. And there’s a free version to test things out, first.

        Also, I’m open to suggestions to enhance the app some more.

        Cheers,
        Michael

          dougal74
          Lyricist I
          March 15, 2021

          Me, too, I wanted to be on the save side and backup and export my precious Sonos playlists. And me, too, ended up writing my own app doing just so.

          The result is called SonoSaver and can be found here in case you're interested: https://sonosaver.mrupp.ch/

          I released it as shareware, but you can choose yourself of what you think it’s worth. And there’s a free version to test things out, first.

          Also, I’m open to suggestions to enhance the app some more.

          Cheers,
          Michael

          The above worked for me after exporting the playlists to .csv files and happy to recommend. Have suggested some tweaks to Michael to make it more straightforward to import them into Amazon etc. via MusConv etc.

            Dont-take-my-CR100
            Lyricist II
            June 7, 2021

            I would like to be able to search a playlist for an artist or song so I don’t add duplicates. Alternatively, the ability to sort by artist and/or song would help. I too wanted an export function so I could transport my playlist over to Spotify in my car. It seems a perfectly valid request and in the world of software development a 10 minute modification.

              rb6895
              Lyricist II
              August 18, 2021

              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! 

              Good job!  Anyway your scenario is exactly what brought me here looking for answers.  

              Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.

                rb6895
                Lyricist II
                August 18, 2021

                Why would Sonos be interested in doing that?

                Good question! TLDR; Sonos would be interested in doing that because they want customers to mention their product when asked for a recommendation.

                If you’re satisfied with that answer feel free to stop here otherwise, read on for the real-world example that led me to this thread and learn

                How a seemingly insignificant feature impacts the long-term viability of a business

                TLDR; I lost my data. They lost my trust. Now I can’t recommend Sonos. 

                Here’s how - switching from Google Play Music to Spotify

                1. First, I went to Google Takeout and exported my playlists.
                2. I also have playlists created on my Sonos but unfortunately they aren’t synced to Google and can’t be exported or shared.
                3. Next, I signed up for Spotify and added it to Sonos.
                4. Then, I removed my Google Play account from Sonos.
                5. Now, My Sonos playlists are empty.
                List of empty Sonos Playlists from removed Google Play Music account

                 

                The lesson I learned was don’t create Sonos playlists and don’t trust the Sonos app.

                Why would Sonos care if they make money selling hardware?

                How can me not using their free software have any measurable impact on their business? 

                For the sake of simplicity, I will answer like this:

                • What Sonos wants is paying customers, because that’s how they make money.
                • What Sonos needs is advocates, because that’s how they grow their business.

                In short, even though a customer (me) spent thousands of dollars on Sonos products in the past 4 years I can no longer enthusiastically recommend their product.

                How does my lack of enthusiasm affect their business?

                When someone asks if I recommend Sonos over Apple or Google or Alexa I won’t have an easy answer, because it depends - the hardware is reliable but if you’re the kind of person who loves to create playlists I have a warning - there is no way to export them and personally, I lost every playlist I ever created, every song I ever loved, every queue I ever saved, all of it. 

                In summary: Sonos should be interested to add support for playlist exporting because they can’t grow their business if loyal customers won’t recommend their product.

                Happy to answer any follow-up questions.

                Yes, you would think a company like Sonos would have had such basic functionality implemented from launch.

                 

                Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct. 

                  controlav
                  controlav
                  Lead Maestro
                  August 18, 2021

                  Did you read the thread? You can export Sonos playlists using my iOS app, which was created directly in response to this thread. You could of then imported them to Spotify via SoundIIZ. Not sure what the recent ranting is about, this is a solved problem.

                  Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
                  bockersjv
                  bockersjv
                  Local Superstar
                  August 18, 2021

                  Clearly an itch someone needs to scratch.

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