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how do I save my playlist to my PC

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August 20, 2020
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I have not been able to find any info here that shows me how I can save a playlist to my PC, I have to uninstall sonos as I believe the download was corrupted.

When I migrated my music folders to sonos, it appeared as though not all the music came over, so I want to do a clean uninstall and reinstall a new download, but I would like to be able to save my playlist to my PC if this is possible, any advice would be welcome.

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Best answer by 106rallye

@TDHarris52 If you explain something to someone and he does not understand you, try again and explain it in another way. Just pointing them to the part they didn’t understand in the first place does not help.

As I understand it you add music that’s on your PC to a Sonos device via the PC app. The Sonos system will then remeber the path to the music on the Sonos device and show it to you via the app on your PC or phone. It’s the same with playlists: as I understand it, if they are on your computer in the music you can add them to Sonos (I do not use this feature myself). And playlists made with Sonos are also stored on the Sonos devices and only shown to you in the app. So removing and reinstalling the app will not change playlists.

The process you are describing look more liking the process Sonos calls adding to a queue. This way you add songs to a queue/list stored on a device, but the queue is not meant to be saved. Restarting the Sonos device wil wipe the queue. You can make playlists in the Sonos app (take a look here - scroll down a little: https://www.pocket-lint.com/speakers/news/sonos/139397-sonos-tips-and-tricks-get-the-most-out-of-your-multi-room-speaker-system). The app will store them on the Sonos devices.

Playlists stored on a Sonos device cannot be saved to a PC as far as I know.

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TDHarris52Author

Your pretty dense John, you keep repeating your same old taking points, crapping on me and not really being of any help what so ever, do you even bother to read what I post...

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nik9669a

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I have not been able to find any info here that shows me how I can save a playlist to my PC, I have to uninstall sonos as I believe the download was corrupted.

When I migrated my music folders to sonos, it appeared as though not all the music came over, so I want to do a clean uninstall and reinstall a new download, but I would like to be able to save my playlist to my PC if this is possible, any advice would be welcome.

I’ll risk trying to help. Let’s take it step by step.

Firstly:

How did you create your playlists and music library on your PC? What app do you use on the PC?

Secondly, do you have “close to 700 hundred songs” - ie 70,000?

Thirdly, do you understand that the Sonos app is just a remote control for the speakers?

With answers to these questions, perhaps we can move forwards.

Edited to add: are you sure all your songs are in a compatible format for Sonos to play?

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TDHarris52Author

I explained in my third post how I bring music in, yes I am playing music on my sonos speakers, and no 700 not 70,000, but when I can get the rest of my music over to sonos, their will be much more, yes I do, but the music has to be available for the speakers to play it.

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nik9669a

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But you didn’t say how you create your playlists on the pc. You don’t seem willing to help us to help you.

Good luck in resolving this, but “I’m out”.

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John B

Your pretty dense John, you keep repeating your same old taking points, crapping on me and not really being of any help what so ever, do you even bother to read what I post...

I do read it. I repeated things in the hope that you might eventually understand something. Clearly you understand nothing about how the Sonos music library works and are beyond helping.

106rallyeAnswer

@TDHarris52 If you explain something to someone and he does not understand you, try again and explain it in another way. Just pointing them to the part they didn’t understand in the first place does not help.

As I understand it you add music that’s on your PC to a Sonos device via the PC app. The Sonos system will then remeber the path to the music on the Sonos device and show it to you via the app on your PC or phone. It’s the same with playlists: as I understand it, if they are on your computer in the music you can add them to Sonos (I do not use this feature myself). And playlists made with Sonos are also stored on the Sonos devices and only shown to you in the app. So removing and reinstalling the app will not change playlists.

The process you are describing look more liking the process Sonos calls adding to a queue. This way you add songs to a queue/list stored on a device, but the queue is not meant to be saved. Restarting the Sonos device wil wipe the queue. You can make playlists in the Sonos app (take a look here - scroll down a little: https://www.pocket-lint.com/speakers/news/sonos/139397-sonos-tips-and-tricks-get-the-most-out-of-your-multi-room-speaker-system). The app will store them on the Sonos devices.

Playlists stored on a Sonos device cannot be saved to a PC as far as I know.

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John B

your just an arrogant d***, get out of your mothers basement would a john.

Would you like to try that again, this time in English?

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TDHarris52Author

at 106rallye, thank you for your reply, that is basically what I wanted to know, so thank you for your help. yeah you can ask the question again, but if the individual is to dense to understand what you are asking, then no matter were you point them or how many times you point them to the issue they still are not going to understand, ya can’t fix stupid or arrogance.

As pointed out by john in his last post, he doesn’t understand English. So obviously he cant help, cause one needs to understand English to be helpful.

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John B

There is certainly one thing I understand that, is that this forum you have to know every thing before coming on and asking for help, cause you ain’t gonna get it here when you come right out the gate being insulting you are not HELPFUL, so **************

I said you had misunderstood (which is not an insult) then asked for more information and tried to explain why I thought your question did not make sense. I started out hoping to help, but you didn't seem to take on board anything that was said. From then on it was downhill all the way.

We just don't seem to have been able to get you to accept that uninstalling and reinstalling the app has no impact on the music library or playlists. The app is not the system

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John B

Btw, your moronic, inarticulate, grammatical-error-strewn insults are water off a duck's back to me.

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