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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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controlav

Lead Maestro

Well that escalated quickly. Without any reason. Jeez, why do we even try to help people like this?

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

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John B

Well that escalated quickly. Without any reason. Jeez, why do we even try to help people like this?

Because you don’t know you are trying to help someone who is going to react in such a deeply unpleasant way. And thankfully, people like @TDHarris52 are very rare on the forum.

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TDHarris52Author

The only one who offered me any assistance was 106rallye, as for john, well , he just likes to insult, maybe because he’s not familiar with the method I use for my sonos, or he just wants attention, so if the rest of you are offended, to bad, listen to people and don’t be offensive, that would go a long way to being helpful.

buzz

Grand Maestro

To the OP: Saving SONOS Playlists to a PC is not supported by the platform. Your “missing” tracks could be due to unsupported file formats, stray characters in the file names, or file security issues. If the file indexer encounters a bad file, the indexer will usually stop, ignoring any files not yet indexed. I suggest that you work with SONOS support to get to the bottom of this. If indexing was terminated prior to processing all of the files, Diagnostics will indicate this. Only SONOS staff have access to the Diagnostics.

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TDHarris52Author

Ok, I’m not missing any tracks, or any of the above that you mention, all my music plays fine, any where I play it.

I come to this forum out of curiosity, to see if I could some how save my queue in sonos, and a simple yes, or no, would have sufficed, or, possibly an alternate option may have been available, I don’t know, what I have experienced here is not good, and certainly no way to run a forum, if you don’t want to help, then don’t respond to the post. And certainly don’t if your going to insult.

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