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Contributor I
July 14, 2015
Question

Simply want it to play next track

  • July 14, 2015
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Is it me or can sonos not do something basic like play next track. If I select a track in an album, playlist etc. It just plays that track and doesn't continue to play the next tracks. What's that about?
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    61 replies

    ratty
    March 26, 2016
    Quite. Personally I find media players which steam on, unbidden, down an album/playlist pretty infuriating. It's the 'CD Player' approach, which is a bit passé IMO.
    Lyricist II
    March 26, 2016
    I don't have anything against the queue system - it works great. I just think there could be a middleground where Sonos defaults to playing the next track on the album, playlist or artist page if I haven't manually told it to to build a queue. The way I see it, it would correspond to me putting in a cd in my CD player and then having to tell it - every time I turn on the player - that it should play the full cd. I know there's a lot of different use cases - however I think it's something that many users would expect..
    March 26, 2016
    Quite. Personally I find media players which steam on, unbidden, down an album/playlist pretty infuriating. It's the 'CD Player' approach, which is a bit passé IMO.

    Yes, I've said before if Sonos went down that route I could see myself never using it again.
    March 26, 2016
    I don't have anything against the queue system - it works great. I just think there could be a middleground where Sonos defaults to playing the next track on the album, playlist or artist page if I haven't manually told it to to build a queue. The way I see it, it would correspond to me putting in a cd in my CD player and then having to tell it - every time I turn on the player - that it should play the full cd. I know there's a lot of different use cases - however I think it's something that many users would expect..

    Many? This thread is 8 months old, has only reached page two and by my count the number of people agreeing with it hasn't reached double figures yet. That puts it well down the popularity list.
    Prodigy II
    March 26, 2016
    It took me a while to get used to the queue - all new things do as they are different and I don't automatically condemn different as rubbish simply because of it - and since learning how it works (which takes effort on your part) it is supremely logical, simple and satisfying once you understand that you have bought a multi-room multi- controller music system. Its simplicity is its strength. Its frustrations are the compromises you make to enjoy its benefits.
    Lyricist I
    June 24, 2016
    Please add a play from here option , it makes me want to go back to my CD player
    Lyricist I
    August 1, 2016
    So is there really still no work around for this?
    When I play a song mid playlist, it only plays that song and stops?

    What a hassle.
    Contributor I
    August 6, 2016
    One year and 47 entries later.......same question asked....is anyone from Sonos monitoring this in order to get the users the correct information?

    As with everyone, I have the same problem with my song lists, the system only plays the one I selected even if I have multiple songs in my custom list. Even when I select the original sound tract I uploaded and select music from the album, it only plays the one I selected and repeatedly.

    Sonos has to fix this....what year is this? 2016? Come on!!
    jgatie
    August 6, 2016
    You have to select all tracks, not one.
    August 7, 2016
    Is this not what the new beta "fixes"?