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St.John
Trending Lyricist I
February 27, 2013

Playlist Editing

  • February 27, 2013
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Could Sonos let us know where they are on allowing some form of playlist editing? Following the merger between Napster & Rhapsody (or vice versa) I have playlists filled with "track unavailable" debris items (eg 365 tracks on a 2500+ playlist). Because there is no way of sorting them (eg on a PC Controller), even when I note that a track is not available, there is no way for me to sort the playlist eg alphabetically or search the list to nail and boot out the offending item (or even better, allowing me real time to see something similar that is available and do a swap). The lack of any editing playlist capability is, in my view, the Sonos systems weakest (and perhaps only) failing. I note previous comments on backup files: I was not aware of this "new" weakness and it would be a disaster if I lost my playlists (even the ones with Napster debris). Come on Sonos: it cant be that hard to have some playlist editing and playlist backup?
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    Jay C
    Trending Lyricist I
    March 8, 2013
    I want to get more feed back from the community on this one. Some of our best enhancements have been born here in the ideas section. If our project development team likes this idea you may see the status update to "Under Consideration"
    Chris_183
    Enthusiast II
    June 4, 2013
    Editing playlists is truly SONOS's big weak point. I have one playlist that is over 6,000 tracks, and I can't sort it. I'm trying to remove all the XMas songs, but I actually have to wait for one to play, then quickly edit the playlist, delete the track, then save it. A real pain since I know the name of the album AND the artist, but can't sort edit and delete. Same goes for my Rhapsody account where artists are pulled and tracks no longer exist.
      John_464
      Lyricist I
      July 5, 2013
      I'm a little dumbfounded by this shortcoming in the Sonos system. The playlist ability is the primary means of using the system -- the technology in my new subwoofer in other words is completely lost on me if it can't play the music I want. Here's a suggestion. If Sonos can import playlists from other sources (which allow editing of every sort) why can't it export? Seems like a simple fix until there's a real Sonos editor. Currently for reasons unknown I can't save my playlists to Sonos because I have too many? Or too big? I have no clue and no power to experiment.
      Jack Saltiel
      Contributor I
      January 31, 2014
      I too need this feature. With many playlists with 100's to over a thousand track this is a real problem.
      Trashisfree
      Avid Contributor I
      April 19, 2014
      Bump yes.
        judoman
        Lyricist I
        June 26, 2014
        Bump yes too!
          Chris
          Chris
          Lead Maestro
          June 26, 2014
          Bump - a big issue with Sonos in that you can't backup (and edit) playlists and favorites offline.  Backup being the bigger of the 2 issues.  Too many times people have lost their playlist because of a hardware or connection failure on a Sonos device and all their preferences being wiped!  Seems as though it would be a simple fix at least for backup.  An offline editor would be nice but probably a harder aspect to implement.
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          Westy67
          Lyricist I
          September 28, 2014
          Could not agree more with the above comments. Yes we all have tons of music just not always how we would prefer to hear them.
          thomasoyen
          Contributor I
          December 7, 2014
          I want to get more feed back from the community on this one. Some of our best enhancements have been born here in the ideas section. If our project development team likes this idea you may see the status update to "Under Consideration"
          It's been more than 2 years since your comment, Jay C. Still no "Under Consideration" on this topic as we all just have installed update 5.2.

          Knowing that Sonos still does not care about this is just a f....in' disaster!

          It's pretty arrogant of Sonos not bothering to do something about this at all. That means Sonos don't understand the needs of their users.

          These updates in 5.2, who needs them? They probably were an easy fix, but really? They were pretty useless for most people.

          This post has 17 likes so far, but it is A LOT more out there who don't bother going to forums like this, unfortunately.

          Jay C, you should really take this to the next level a.s.a.p.
          Jack Saltiel
          Contributor I
          December 7, 2014
          I want to get more feed back from the community on this one. Some of our best enhancements have been born here in the ideas section. If our project development team likes this idea you may see the status update to "Under Consideration"
          I agree wholeheartedly. editing a playlist in any one of your apps is so difficult as to make it impossible.  PLEASE invest a little in this and you will solve a big problem for your users and bring you many new ones.
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