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Contributor III
Apr 27, 2018 3:30 AM UTC

Sonos won't find my iTunes playlist

I'm trying to reconnect Sonos with my iTunes library. It seems to see all of my iTunes music, but it can't seem to find any of my playlists (under Imported Playlists)

How can I fix this?
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Prodigy II
Apr 27, 2018 5:46 PM UTC
Which iTunes playlists are you expecting to see? The internal iTunes playlists that only exist in the big "iTunes Music Library.xml" files (Sonos won't read that), or manually exported playlists (typically something like a .m3u file that lists all the track files that make up the playlist)?
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Smilja
Apr 27, 2018 6:04 PM UTC
Which iTunes playlists are you expecting to see? The internal iTunes playlists that only exist in the big "iTunes Music Library.xml" files (Sonos won't read that), or manually exported playlists (typically something like a .m3u file that lists all the track files that make up the playlist)?
Sonos is able to read the "iTunes Music Library.xml", so I'd recommend to point the Sonos library to the iTunes parent directory.

https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/154/~/importing-playlists-from-other-apps-like-itunes
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Prodigy II
Apr 27, 2018 6:50 PM UTC
Ah. Thought that big iTunes library was proprietary and locked to iTunes. Learn new Sonos tricks every day on here...
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Smilja
Apr 27, 2018 7:03 PM UTC
Sonos can even handle Smart Playlists created in iTunes.
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»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)