Playlist back up please!

Go into your app Settings and then wireless setup and just reset those

Oops for SFR read soft

The phrase you were actually looking for was "the comfy chair"...

Wow! I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! Is it the SFR sofa next? (You really need to be older to appreciate the references).

If I have offended the mass indexers, I apologise.

Geoff

Look, Just because I post a contrary view doesn't mean I'm offended. This is a public forum and we are all entitled to our view, even me and even when I'm wrong (which is often!). But neither should you get offended if others, naturally, have a different view.

Hey everyone let's lighten up, me included. Geoff's post was ironic and friendly (I think!)

The key thing here is there seems to have been some massive confusion over what is needed to sort out mixed mode, which doesn't require a factory reset. No playlists need be harmed in the process!!

The key thing is that Sonos doesn't provide a backup facility for it's playlists. That was the question from the OP.

The key thing I would like to get across to the OP at the moment is that he thinks he would have to factory reset to cure his mixed mode setup, but he doesn't. Which is consistent with the "factory resets are hardly ever necessary".message. I know that playlist backup was the OP's original request, but we have since discovered that he has either been badly misinformed or has got the wrong end of the stick. That is the immediate problem to which there is an immediate solution.

This thread is hysterical. It's like someone asking for big cushions on the front of trains because every time he walks on the train tracks he gets run over, and the people who tell him to stop walking on the tracks are wrong? All we need now are a couple people saying Squeezebox has playlist backup and a certain curmudgeon insisting Sonos and only Sonos can answer questions everybody already knows the answer to and well have this forum in one silly, sad nutshell. Way to go, guys and gals. :rolleyes

Strange thread.

If any user of any computer program puts a significant amount of effort into creating something (entering data of any kind, a document, a drawing, a picture, a playlist), there should be a way to save it and load it back in the computer program. That's a main value proposition of computers, and one that's been accepted since DOS. It saves humans from rework and drudgery. To not have that feature in any computer program or system is a major flaw, in my opinion. (Arguing that a system should never have to be reset---well, see Apollo 13.)

Strange thread.

If any user of any computer program puts a significant amount of effort into creating something (entering data of any kind, a document, a drawing, a picture, a playlist), there should be a way to save it and load it back in the computer program. That's a main value proposition of computers, and one that's been accepted since DOS. It saves humans from rework and drudgery. To not have that feature in any computer program or system is a major flaw, in my opinion. (Arguing that a system should never have to be reset---well, see Apollo 13.)

Yes. And no.

Yes, being able to save your data so you can escape the "walled garden" of Sonos (or just backup your stuff) would be awesome. But that requires Sonos to divert time and money to implementing a "save data" feature, either as cloud backup (with free storage and privacy considerations for every user) or saving to a variety of PC / NAS disk options. Sonos's focus right now is not on the core product experience for local library listeners.

Maybe it's time for some perspective here. Think about all the other data you created and can't easily backup / restore to disk. Losing your save games because your console crashed / disappeared is a pain. Losing device-specific playlists that you could re-create in an hour (depends on how many you created) from a workaround screen capture might not be a big deal for many users.