Contributor I

Exporting Sonos playlists

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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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kevinpru

Trending Lyricist I

I don’t want to burst your bubble. But my Sonos system for those four months was not finding my music and the “Sonos Supervisor Support Tech kept telling me to factory reset” to try and resolve the issue. It was NOT on my initiative to factory reset the Sonos speakers. If was on the directive of the Sonos Supervisor Support Tech

But as this whole discussion began, whether or not a Playlist is lost or not be a factory reset or yes, there is always a technology issue at occasional times which calls for a router, computer system or product reset in which a complete reset or re-install is required. It’s a good thing to have a backup of your settings (in this case, a Playlist backed up somewhere to easily import back into your product.

But Sonos chooses not to do this. Why? Why don’t any of you answer the real question here, as to why Sonos refuses to export a Playlist for a backup of the Playlist. Rather than attack their customers as being dumb and not really having an issue of maintaining a Playlist in their speakers.

Sonos support very often gives bad advice, and depending on where the support originates, they are far behind the advice you get here on this forum. Factory resetting is useless, and often does bad things like . . . Oh . . . deleting all your playlists! So stop factory resetting, no matter who tells you to, and especially stop doing it to every Sonos unit you own. Playlists saved, no need for backups.

Ok, I hear you loud and clear and have not in the past two months, nor will I factory reset my speakers again.

But with that said. Why did you, or Sonos, factory reset my speakers then last night when I slept? Because when I woke up this morning to access my Playlists on my Sonos app and speakers, here’s what I saw on my app…

Now, please tell me. If I did NOT factory reset my Sonos system or speakers. Where did all my Playlists go? Please tell me, because I am really curious how this happen without factory resetting my system or speakers.

controlav

Lead Maestro

Ok, I hear you loud and clear and have not in the past two months, nor will I factory reset my speakers again.

But with that said. Why did you, or Sonos, factory reset my speakers then last night when I slept? Because when I woke up this morning to access my Playlists on my Sonos app and speakers, here’s what I saw on my app…

Now, please tell me. If I did NOT factory reset my Sonos system or speakers. Where did all my Playlists go? Please tell me, because I am really curious how this happen without factory resetting my system or speakers.

There is a sometime-reported bug with the iOS app not listing Sonos playlists reliably. Try SonoPhone instead from the App Store, until Sonos actually fix the iOS app.

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

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John B

@kevinpru .There is zero chance of Sonos having factory reset your speakers. The chance that @controlav did so are considerably less than that, as he is 'just' a fellow user.

There is also a infinitesimal chance that your playlists have been deleted. @controlav is almost certainly correct that the iOS app is just failing to display them

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User107569

Contributor I

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

this worked perfectly. Highly recommend. If you have a blended system, S1 and S2 speakers.( way to go sonos as to not make them compatible. Idiots) Anyway, i have all my music on my NAS server, I created a folder called playlist. I’ve created several playlists in S1 and since they dont see each other i didnt want to try and recreate all the playlists. I used Michaels tool, copied the playlist to M3U, moved those into my playlist folder on my NAS, updated the library on both S1 and S2. Worked perfectly.Great Job Michael!

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mauzt

Lyricist I

The export of a sonos playlist to deezer is not provided by the sonos developers, however this ist the way I did backup and transfer:

I highly recommend the SonoSaver, it worked like a charm - asked on Sunday mornig for the keyfile for the shareware https://sonosaver.mrupp.ch/ and recieved it an hour later.

The export of the csv-file and transfer to deezer https://www.deezer.com/explore/de/features/transfer-playlist/ (free of charge).

It took 10 Minutes and was very easy, thanks to Michael Rupp - great program, fair pricing!

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itriedthisprodcttwice

Lyricist I

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.

I really appreciated your input, and so many like you with your fanboy, snarky response.

I bought a few units that Ive had some trouble with (and I was a gen1 owner that had similar issues)

It seems like people like you abound in the community, and echo sono’s attitude to improving their products.

Back to ikea it goes

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YellowGypsy

Lyricist II

So I went to the iOS App Store and it wasn’t there! And I thought that my problem was gone.

Can’t explain why searching can’t find it (maybe it varies by country?), but try the name: “phonos plus”.

That’s really cool. Thanks.

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Alan_37

Contributor II

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

@fosseboy - in case you haven't solved that compatibility issue yet, your have the choice of running 2 sonos networks Sonos S1 app for the old devices and Sonos s2 (I think) for the new ones (2 sonosn networks at once), OR you can downgrade the new ones so you can run all of them on Sonos S1 (instructions here https://support.sonos.com/en-au/article/set-up-separate-s1-and-s2-sonos-systems)

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jomama

Trending Lyricist I

Is anyone at Sonos looking into this?

Airgetlam

Exporting a playlist? I would doubt it. It has been a request since the early 2000s, I would expect if it was on someone’s priority list, it would have been introduced by now.

Bruce

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