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narkor
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May 11, 2019
Question

Fix playlists!

  • May 11, 2019
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There is no logical sense to Sonos being concerned if my mobile is accessible all the time or not in my system.

I want playlists from my mobile and when I'm connected it's accessible. That's it that's all. Any other way is really stupid and restrictive. Fix this please. It doesn't matter if the playlist isn't always accessible. That's not an actual sense in being so restrictive.

Make it simple let us do what we want. Hour hard is this to resolve??
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    John B
    May 13, 2019
    @narkor. I suspect there is much you don't understand about the way Sonos is designed and has developed, about the way in which it stores playlists, the way it plays tracks stored on mobile devices, the lower reliability of playing from a mobile device and much else besides. You are free to think what you like and to disagree with Sonos' decision on this. But when you have built a multi-billion dollar global company, then you will have the right to call Sonos 'stupid'.

    It is a perfectly reasonable model to say that system playlists should be constructed from tracks that have a reasonable chance of being permanently available, and accessible across controllers, while each mobile device can play what it has stored on it, INCLUDING PLAYLISTS stored on that device. IMO that is logical and consistent.

    There, you forced me to debate this after all....

    Incidentally, I wasn't suggesting that you need to move to Samsung Music. This is about where the Sonos app looks to find the playlist files. I haven't figured that out yet, but I do know that as things stand, if I wanted to create playlists of tracks stored on my phone, and play them back through Sonos, I could do so.
    sjw
    Local Superstar
    May 13, 2019
    I think Sonos should allow you to includes songs from wherever you choose in Sonos Playlists.
    If the device/song is available then it plays it. If not, it is seamlessly skipped. Same as now - if my NAS is on they get played, otherwise it's just Spotify tracks that get played.
      Smilja
      Smilja
      May 13, 2019
      I think Sonos should allow you to includes songs from wherever you choose in Sonos Playlists.
      If the device/song is available then it plays it. If not, it is seamlessly skipped. Same as now - if my NAS is on they get played, otherwise it's just Spotify tracks that get played.
      Sonos is not capable of playing DRM-protected Spotify tracks downloaded to a mobile device or a HDD.
      »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
      sjw
      Local Superstar
      May 14, 2019
      I haven't mentioned playing Spotify tracks downloaded to my phone.
      Just said what it did now.
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