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Using Apple Music, how to enable "Autoplay Similar Songs" within Sonos App

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January 19, 2021
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In iOS14 Apple added a new feature to “Autoplay Similar Tracks” when a playlist or queue is finished. Its supposed to continue to play similar music to what was on the playlist. Similar to Create a Station that does work (but is fairly buried in Sonos and Apple), but instead it kicks in at the end of an existing playlist vs. creating an unending playlist from scratch like Create Station does from a selected song.

See here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208383

Apple show an infinity symbol on the player to control this feature.

Its supposed to be somewhat better than create a station as it has the context of the entire preceeding playlist when picking a new song, vs. a single song.

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craigus111

Contributor II

As an Android user (bear with me!) who's used all the other streaming apps, this is a common missed feature. I don't want to turn around every 4 minutes to choose another song; I want the streaming service to choose for me while I eat, drink and chat!

Sonos themselves state that the S2 isn't a music playing app, so please let these key music app features flow through to the S2.

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Alan397

Lyricist III

I add my vote for adding this feature of Apple Music to the Sonos app. I don’t want to use AirPlay all the time because it takes away from the power of Sonos! Apple Music is the only music service I subscribe to and I use it with auto play most of the time, except what I’m using Sonos :( This is a huge gap that I hope gets fixed soon!

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Sinandgrin

Contributor I

Has there been any update on the request for this feature? I would love to have this as well and consider it a significant gap that the Sonos app currently has.

While I think the Sonos hardware products are well thought out and designed the software side of things leaves a lot to be desired, and hasn’t received much treatment in years. This would be a meaningful addition and would bring some momentum back to improving the Sonos app experience.

Airgetlam

Have you read @controlav ‘s post above? This is something Apple would need to implement, not something Sonos can do.

Bruce

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Sinandgrin

Contributor I

Have you read @controlav ‘s post above? This is something Apple would need to implement, not something Sonos can do.

Nope clearly I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully Apple will agree to make some changes on their systems to allow for this functionality, but still think there’s plenty of opportunity within the Sonos ecosystem for them to implement changes that would bring better user experience in managing music.

jgatie

Nope clearly I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully Apple will agree to make some changes on their systems to allow for this functionality, but still think there’s plenty of opportunity within the Sonos ecosystem for them to implement changes that would bring better user experience in managing music.

Sonos has zero to do with the user experience within individual music services. Each service is wholly responsible for their UI within the Sonos app and because of the partnership agreement, Sonos couldn’t change it if they tried. The only influence Sonos has is the API, and the API obviously includes the ability to autoplay similar tracks, because other services have incorporated this feature.

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Keithmac

Virtuoso

Spotify does it automatically, if you ask it to play a single song (via Alexa) it will carry on with similar songs afterwards.

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Alan397

Lyricist III

Nope clearly I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully Apple will agree to make some changes on their systems to allow for this functionality, but still think there’s plenty of opportunity within the Sonos ecosystem for them to implement changes that would bring better user experience in managing music.

Sonos has zero to do with the user experience within individual music services. Each service is wholly responsible for their UI within the Sonos app and because of the partnership agreement, Sonos couldn’t change it if they tried. The only influence Sonos has is the API, and the API obviously includes the ability to autoplay similar tracks, because other services have incorporated this feature.

Thank you for your response. With all due respect, is this an official Sonos response or from a developer with appropriate knowledge of the implementation?

controlav

Lead Maestro

Nope clearly I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully Apple will agree to make some changes on their systems to allow for this functionality, but still think there’s plenty of opportunity within the Sonos ecosystem for them to implement changes that would bring better user experience in managing music.

Sonos has zero to do with the user experience within individual music services. Each service is wholly responsible for their UI within the Sonos app and because of the partnership agreement, Sonos couldn’t change it if they tried. The only influence Sonos has is the API, and the API obviously includes the ability to autoplay similar tracks, because other services have incorporated this feature.

Thank you for your response. With all due respect, is this an official Sonos response or from a developer with appropriate knowledge of the implementation?

It is how Sonos works. See developer.sonos.com for all the details.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

jgatie

Thank you for your response. With all due respect, is this an official Sonos response or from a developer with appropriate knowledge of the implementation?

It wouldn't make any difference if I was God himself, my statement wouldn’t be any more or less true. It’s all spelled out right here: https://developer.sonos.com/

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