Save Queue to a Sonos Playlist (Again)

I could see a case where ‘we know it works fine on X device, but need to roll it out more slowly to be certain it works on Y devices’…but I’m guessing. 

 The 3 dots finally show on my iPhone.

After all that , I get the 3 dots. How annoying you can only create new playlists and not update an existing playlist. Having to create new playlists all time is pretty rubbish if you ask me.

i thought Sonos may have finally fixed all my problems that were taken away from me 2 years ago.

i hate how I’m tied into Sonos and how they allowed this to happen in the 1st place. Are there any better alternatives to Sonos?

You can actually add to, edit (change order/remove from) and delete existing playlists... What other functionality are you after?

Hello there, 

so I’m playing a saved playlist and I add a couple of new songs to playlist. I then want to save it, so it overwrites / updates the playlist I’m playing . I don’t want a new one?

You can add individual songs to any playlist from the track ellipsis within the queue list... but, you are correct that, at the moment you can not overwrite an existing playlist from the queue without the save new/delete old path.

From your original post I understood you to mean that playlists could not be updated at all... apologies.

See…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/create-or-edit-a-sonos-playlist

In the old App (and also in the Windows PC App), if you choose to save the queue and you enter the name of a playlist that already exists it quite rightly prompts you to say ‘playlist already exists’, and then asks you to confirm if you want to overwrite it or not - a perfect option for updating a playlist.

In my opinion that is a much more user friendly option than the recent ‘3 dots’ update where it will simply create another playlist with a duplicate name without any warning, which you then somehow need to distinguish which is which to delete the old one you wanted to overwrite in the first place.  I do sometimes wonder whether the user interface designers of the App actually use the Sonos system themselves?

​@RavingDave ; ​@HoochieBoy 

READ this guide!

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/create-or-edit-a-sonos-playlist

​@RavingDave ; ​@HoochieBoy 

 

READ this guide!

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/create-or-edit-a-sonos-playlist

 

Pleae read my post carefully.  Your reference to the Sonos support article does not cover the use case of loading an existing playlist, editing it in the queue, and then saving it back to overwrite the original playlist.  The current offering only allows you to save the queue to a NEW playlist, which if you give it the same name results in a duplicate.  Suggest you see how it works in the PC App, which in my opinion provides far superior user experience for this function.