Amazon Lossless and Where is the shuffle function?

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I’m using Apple Music and find using the service through Sonos App to be frustrating, as it doesn’t function as the Standalone Apple Music app would. I can’t add tracks to my library and I can’t even shuffle tracks, there’s just no function for it?

I ha just added Amazon music because I’m thinking of ditching Apple Music. However, after adding the Amazon app there’s no function to shuffle?

Also, can someone tell me if I can just use the standalone Amazon app to play Lossless and High resolution music? I hate the fact that I’m forced to use the Sonos/Apple app to play hi res and lossless audio.

I note I can add new tracks albums ect, but this is added to “my Sonos”. So, in effect it won’t be available in the my Apple Music account? This is all very confusing and very disjointed.

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

@Spaddywaddy,
Maybe try this …select the ‘Star’ next to your iCloud library in the Apple Music Service in the Sonos App (That’s assuming you’ve not got it selected already) - that will add a shortcut to the library on your ‘My Sonos’ tab. Simply goto that tab and select the ‘songs’ category and you should see the option to ‘shuffle’ as shown in the attached screenshot.

Note if you have a large number of songs in your iCloud library, you may find the App might unfortunately time-out loading every song to the queue, that’s if it perhaps takes longer than 15 seconds to do that - The only workaround I’m aware of for that time-out issue, is to store the library local and use straightforward UNC paths direct to each of the chosen local music library tracks, as a single ‘one-line’ entry in a .m3u playlist. That seems to work best for a large amount of tracks - I have no issue loading 25,000+ tracks when opting to use that method.

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

@Spaddywaddy,
Maybe try this …select the ‘Star’ next to your iCloud library in the Apple Music Service in the Sonos App (That’s assuming you’ve not got it selected already) - that will add a shortcut to the library on your ‘My Sonos’ tab. Simply goto that tab and select the ‘songs’ category and you should see the option to ‘shuffle’ as shown in the attached screenshot.

Note if you have a large number of songs in your iCloud library, you may find the App might unfortunately time-out loading every song to the queue, that’s if it perhaps takes longer than 15 seconds to do that - The only workaround I’m aware of for that time-out issue, is to store the library local and use straightforward UNC paths direct to each of the chosen local music library tracks, as a single ‘one-line’ entry in a .m3u playlist. That seems to work best for a large amount of tracks - I have no issue loading 25,000+ tracks when opting to use that method.

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@Spaddywaddy,
Maybe try this …select the ‘Star’ next to your iCloud library in the Apple Music Service in the Sonos App (That’s assuming you’ve not got it selected already) - that will add a shortcut to the library on your ‘My Sonos’ tab. Simply goto that tab and select the ‘songs’ category and you should see the option to ‘shuffle’ as shown in the attached screenshot.

Interesting, this is a bug in the Sonos iOS app. Their Desktop app as well as my Sonos app does show a Shuffle button at the top of Apple Music / Library / Songs list, the iOS has a UX bug that fails to (and I’ll admit the logic for when it shows up is kind of tortuous).

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Ken_Griffiths

@Spaddywaddy,
Maybe try this …select the ‘Star’ next to your iCloud library in the Apple Music Service in the Sonos App (That’s assuming you’ve not got it selected already) - that will add a shortcut to the library on your ‘My Sonos’ tab. Simply goto that tab and select the ‘songs’ category and you should see the option to ‘shuffle’ as shown in the attached screenshot.

Interesting, this is a bug in the Sonos iOS app. Their Desktop app as well as my Sonos app does show a Shuffle button at the top of Apple Music / Library / Songs list, the iOS has a UX bug that fails to (and I’ll admit the logic for when it shows up is kind of tortuous).

I just call it a ‘workaround’.. 😂 ha ha 👍

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