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mhomden
Contributor I
December 28, 2023
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Cannot See Apple Music's Favourite Songs

  • December 28, 2023
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Apple recently released the option to ‘Favourite’ a song, whilst I can see Favourite Songs in Apple’s Playlists in the SONOS app, when I open it, I just get the notification that ‘No selections are available’

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Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

Ah, I’ve managed to get the ‘favourite’ playlist section to now show-up in both Apps, but just to say I’m seeing the same thing in the Sonos App, so I’m ‘still’ thinking that Apple have not yet got around to properly adding the new feature to their Sonos built-in music service. I would perhaps just wait and see if they resolve the issue in the next couple of Sonos App updates.

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controlav
controlav
Lead Maestro
January 6, 2024

Did you actually read the links above?  Because if you did, you would clearly see that SONOS DOESN'T USE THE APPLE MUSIC API!  As stated, Apple uses the Sonos Music API, and as such, they are responsible for the look and feel of anything displayed in the Sonos app, including any favorites.

In other words, that AI bot has no clue what it is talking about.  There is no, none, zip, nada direct link from Sonos development to the Apple Music API.  Everything is done by the music service themselves via the Sonos SMAPI.

Yeah that AI bot was half wrong, specifically the section “Important Things To Remember” is 100% false. Its as if it was written by someone in Apple support designed to justify why its not their problem.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    January 6, 2024

    Yeah, I read the links, but I obviously overlooked the AI’s referencing the Apple Music API rather than the Sonos Music API. Sorry to add confusion. So what about Sonos’s “addToContainer” function in the Sonos API? (“ Sonos uses addToContainer to add content to a playlist. See Add playlists for details.”)

    I read through the “Add playlists” section and I didn’t see anything that immediately stuck out as the possible culprit.

    Rick

    Take a look at https://docs.sonos.com/docs/configure-ratings which describes how the rating system works in SMAPI. If you look at Apple’s SMAPI xml manifest it contains none of the sections required for rating support.

    A music service provider can make the ratings buttons look as they like (via bitmaps) and act as they like (by configuring them in the manifest) and then implementing whatever they want in their setRatings function. Apple today do none of this.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
      rftoomey
      Trending Lyricist I
      January 6, 2024

      I suppose that the “Favorite Songs” playlist would qualify as an “editable playlist” per the doc, and if so, perhaps the “Allow playlist editing & renaming“ section might offer insight on the problem? Again, I’m sorry to have blown up this thread. I’ll shut up now and wait for a fix.

      Rick

      bradgclark
      Lyricist I
      January 15, 2024

      You may be waiting a long time, if ever for this to work.  I have a number of Smart Playlists that I created in Apple Music / iTunes that for the past 5 years I’ve never been able to pull up in the Sonos App.  I see them, but when I open them I don’t see any songs.

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