Playlist Editing

I just found this thread 😞 I can't believe it's been so long and nothing has been changed yet.

Well that only implies that Sonos does not really care what customers want. It's a competitive market and my next purchase would definitely consider this, meaning that Sonos will definitely not be on top of my list because of the inconveniencing of its playlist feature

On the contrary, it implies that Sonos prioritizes features that they think will sell more speakers, the only way this newly public company generates revenue.

Hi All,

Having done some searching I'm guessing that Sonos hasn't really done anything about improving playlist creation/management yet? I've been trying to create playlists based on the year of track release but this seems to be impossible...unless anyone can give me any good tips?

Thanks,
Nige.

Hi All,

Having done some searching I'm guessing that Sonos hasn't really done anything about improving playlist creation/management yet? I've been trying to create playlists based on the year of track release but this seems to be impossible...unless anyone can give me any good tips?

Thanks,
Nige.

It's not really possible using only Sonos software because of certain limitations - in this case the limited amount of tagging information that Sonos either stores or fetches on demand.

If you built that playlist externally for a specific music source (eg. iTunes, Spotify) then you could just have your Sonos play it.

If you wanted to create such a playlist as a Sonos playlist (for local library or a mixture of local and streamed tracks) then you would have to do all the hard work of figuring out which tracks to include (iTunes makes this very easy with its smart playlist queries) using a mix of iTunes, Spotify, wikipedia, pen-and-paper, etc. Once you had the playlist contents (and track sequence if you care about such things), you could then manually assemble the playlist on your Sonos system.

It's not great, but I'm guessing there's less need for Sonos to commit the resources necessary for awesome playlist management when they're not under the same pressures as the likes of Spotify to lock users (and their curated music collections) in to a service (and a monthly payment).

Hi; I was importing playlists from iTunes, but was having problems, so I decided to "go native" and use the Sonos playlist feature. I'm thinking maybe I should go back to iTunes for best playlist management (e.g., ability to delete tracks, to download playlists for backup), even though I was running into problems. However, I'm a little nervous now that iTunes will be closing down operations (and possibly stopping the support of the iTunes library application). Any advice on a good playlist management application that works well with Sonos? (I have a big CD collection and, when possible, like going with a lossless music format.)

I've responded in your other thread about this issue.