A-Z listing disappeared from Local library on update 14/4/26

If you are looking for a specific song, search is available.

I installed the update that was released earlier today. It hasn’t been fixed.

The “Songs” list is usually the single largest collection on a Sonos system (in Local Library or from a music service), so its not entirely surprising the mobile app has trouble with it - it doesn’t have a great track record in this area.

I tried the Desktop app and there’s no alpha jump there for anything in the Local Library: not sure when that went away. 

I tried my own app and alpha-jump is there for everything in Local Library, but that’s not surprising as I don’t use the underlying API (which might be broken now?) and haven’t changed this code in a long time.

If the alpha-jump was never there on the Songs list, this probably wouldn’t be an issue. But as you can see in the screen grabs from ​@Butinsho above, it was there and now it’s not. I have no opinion on whether it should be. I don’t use it. The index is there on the andriod app though.

The iOS app still wont play imported playlists either, another bug that Sonos have accepted but not fixed since it started to happen a few months ago. I presume anything to do with use of local libraries gets lower priority than other stuff.

Are the playlists XML?  Just want to understand better.

I presume so - they are smart playlists imported form iTunes

Perhaps I’m not understanding things properly, but aren’t smart playlists from Apple not supported? In this article:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/apple-music

it says ‘Access to Smart Playlists, music videos, and artist posts from Connect are only available within the Apple Music app and are not supported on Sonos.’

I’m a little surprised they’re showing up at all, with or without the ‘sorting’. Does it appear on a non smart playlists?

Always worked absolutely fine until around 3 or 4 updates ago. These are imported from iTunes into the Sonos system via my NAS, remember, not played from Apple music (which I don’t have)

I have the same issue with imported playlists from iTunes not playing on Sonos via the IOS App. Mine are just ‘regular’ playlists created by me (ie not ‘Smart’ which are a different dynamic feature in iTunes). The music files and imported playlists are all sitting on my NAS. Sonos will find and display the imported playlists via ‘Music Library’ and will also display the content of the playlist on the IOS App, but the system will not load the playlist into the queue and start to play.  However, an individual tracks in the playlist can be selected to ‘Play Now’, ‘Play Next’, ‘Add to end of queue’ etc which all work as expected. 
 

There are no issues loading / playing the same imported playlists using the Sonos App on a Windows PC, or the SonoPhone 3rd party App on my iPhone.
 

So to me it seems like it is a Sonos IOS App issue (along with the missing A-Z index for scrolling through songs).