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Trending Lyricist I
May 18, 2024
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After the update this week, my Sonos can no longer access my iTunes Music Library.

  • May 18, 2024
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  I am running Windows 10 and the music is all digital on both my C drive and the Cloud.  After the update, now Sonos can no longer see/read my Apple Music Library.  My whole system is now basically useless.  I can bluetooth to my Move but … really?  if that’s all i want to do I don’t need Sonos.This worked fine until the update.  No warnings.  Nothing.  Just no longer works.

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Lyricist III
June 5, 2024

Like many of you, I discovered I’ve lost access to my music library and playlists on Sonos. I am not a music streamer, and only use Sonos to play from my music library. This app “upgrade” is a total and complete disaster. Sonos should have notified users that this was coming and provided an “opt out” from the upgrade. I see on their website they intend to correct this problem by mid-June. That is an unacceptable timeline given the thousands of users who are complaining about this. Restoring access to our music libraries and playlists should be Sonos’ highest priority.  I too will junk my Sonos equipment if this is not fixed in June.

Ditto. What a * pain in the ass.

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I see they monitor these forums for code of conduct, but apparently not to troubleshoot or help us. Typical.

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Lyricist III
June 5, 2024

6/5/2024

Today’s app update helped. I could get my itunes library back, but it can’t find my current playlists. It has all the old playlists from 10years ago? I’ve added permissions to the 2 hard drives for sonos/itunes. Also added permissions to the individual folders. Any other ideas guys? We’re getting closer! 😀

Lyricist III
June 5, 2024

Help. I’ve been trying to get my iTunes playlists back since the update. I’ve tried everything in these forums, and can’t seem to point sonos to the correct folder. Please help? 
Thank you
-chaz

Lyricist II
June 6, 2024

Also want to chirp that not having access to my 2k+ songs I've already paid for really sucks without access to my music library. Sharing the music folder on the network produced zero results for me Sonos still unable to add the folder.

Lyricist III
June 7, 2024

Ok guys, don’t know if there was another app update or not….but I got the sonos app to see my playlists. I opened iTunes, and File> Library> Export Library…  I exported to my Music folder. Then opened the sonos app Manage> Music Library Settings> added the Music folder. Then the sonos app went to work, and my iTunes playlists are back! I hope this helps you guys!

Lyricist II
June 8, 2024

Since the last major Sonos update I can’t access iTunes Playlists on my Mac.  Sonos has been unable to help at all.  I’ve been on the telephone for hours with them.  Apple tech even tried to help me yesterday for over an hour and he concluded that the issue needs to be sorted out by Sonos.  When will this happen?  My iTunes playlist are my ONLY source of music, and it’s been that way since purchasing Sonos over 12 years ago.

Lyricist III
July 11, 2024

Any one had any success ?

jgatie
July 11, 2024

Any one had any success ?

 

Plenty of people have had success following these updated instructions:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/add-your-music-library-to-sonos

 

CMurryAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 11, 2024

Mine is working again. I even let it update again. BUT I am on Windows. 

I had to go into Windows and share the folder(s) w My Music library to the Sonos app that I could see on my internet. Then go back into Manage and reselect in Sonos. I have access to my local music on my C drive and to my playlists, which are imported from iTunes. The app itself, on my iPhone,seems to have lost some functionality and Sonos gets confused more easily over what’s playing on what speakers but it is basically back to working. I figured out the fix by reading the Sonos Community Blog, not Sonos Support.  They seemed as confused as everyone else    

 

 

CMurryAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 11, 2024

i did this fix back in the begin of June and it has been working since