Feature Request: Export and Import Sonos Playlists

Guys, forget about Sonos playlists. If you create a new iTunes library (press alt + click on iTunes logo on mac), you can add your music in there, add playlists and as long as the library is accessible via a shared folder to Sonos, it will take the playlists from there and put them into "Imported Playlists" and it will update them. That way, you use iTune to manage your playlists, export them...etc.

Nice idea Galder but doesn't comprehensively solve the problem.  Some of us create Sonos playlists on the fly that we want to save (without recreating them in iTunes) plus if you're also using songs from Napster, Spotify etc., they can't be incorporated into the iTunes playlist.  SONOS - how long are you going to take to resolve this seemingly basic yet highly irritating problem?!  It's letting a truly wonderful product down...

Good point, in my case my playlists are limited to the music I own and hence iTunes offers me 1-to-1 mapping to what I need from Sonos playlists.

I totally agree with user 309843,

I don't want to use iTunes

Sonos, please add some basic Playlist manipulation functionality that even freebies have, like Import, Export and Backup. Don't know about the Windows side of things, but on the Mac Controller a right click Reveal in Finder option on tracks would come in very handy too.

Thank you very much for the great sounding hardware with your system, however those missing options are somewhat spoiling the fun.

I contacted Sonos customer support on this issue. In reply I received a link to this thread. So, Sonos, I eagerly add my voice here, to. Please add the feature.

Adding my voice to request some way to export a Sonos playlist. Even though I'm using Rhadsody within Sonos, there is no way to even add a playing song to a Rhapsody playlist. Apart from this, have been very happy with Sonos.

I promised copies of playlists I made for our wedding to my friends for use in their wedding. I had to export it using many screen copies and cropping unnecessary info from each picture. It should be possible to at least export the list contents as a text file, preferably a CSV file with separate fields. But backup and restore are needed functions that should be possible for all.

Huge thanks, Selzhanik.  I moved my entire music library to a new PC, which broke all of the playlists.  Using the free version of Media Monkey and your instructions above, I had updated my playlists in a few minutes (I used PSPad for editing and search & replace).  I then imported the playlists back into Sonos.  You can then make them back into Sonos playlists (one by one) by finding the playlist under imported playlists, replacing the queue with that playlist, then editing the queue and saving as a new Sonos playlist.

Anyone else having problems with playlists should try this.  I'm technical, but it really is quite quick & easy.

This is very poor from Sonos, though.  Do they not think that people might need to move files to a new machine or NAS?

Glad you got it sorted out Andrew.

When you change out your music library, your Sonos playlists should still work as long as those tracks are available on the new location. You have to go to Manage Music Library and remove the old location, then add the new one. Sometimes, you have to load the playlist back to your queue and save it again to make sure the new paths get loaded.