Crossfade skips every other song (20 secs) when using Spotify

@corryp is this a Spotify issue or a Sonos issue? And do you have any updates?

Cheers 

@corryp Do you have an update on this issue for us? It’s very annoying actual.

Hi @User232842 & @jsimmy 

No updates, I’m afraid - and there won’t be any until a fix is put in place. There never is - if we say something will be fixed by X date, and then fail to fix it by that date, it just causes more consternation.

soooo…. better to bury ones head in the sand and pretend the problem doesnt exist?

I have this too, its excrutiatingly frustrating for a music system not to be able to play music in a very simple format - come on sonos, sort yourselves out, take some accountability, give your customers a date and get the problem fixed.

I’m not quite sure how you reached that conclusion from @Corry P ‘s post. You may want to re-read it. 

I recently bought my first Sonos product - Sonos Move - where my intentions were to create a while ecosystem of Sonos products after a lot of research.

The multiple software issues, where the crossfade skip over Spotify issue is the most prominent and serious one, as well as the route of actions taken and communication on your end over this issue is really disappointing. I would definitely consider before spending more money and vendor locking on Sonos products.

I’m a software engineer myself, I know for a fact you can and should provide better service for your customers.

As a software engineer, how do you propose that Sonos engineers get access to making changes on servers owned and managed by Spotify? Since it is working on every other streaming companies service, it seem obvious that the issue is not with the API that Sonos provides to everyone, but some sort of implementation or configuration that Spotify needs to do. 
 

I’ve never allowed external engineers code access to the servers in my company. Perhaps your experience is different.

It might be the case and probably true, and yet - there should be high interest on both sides to fix this issue, the fact that Spotify is accessible through Sonos points to some level of partnership - vague responses on Sonos end without any accountability over the end user experience is not acceptable for several months over such core functionality, that acts as a killer feature of this system is not accessible. Have them buffer and imlement crossfade on their servers if needed, just provide some sort of solution, or alternatively some ETA over permanent fix. And saying that providing ETA is not possible as it might be delayed is not a good answer.

I’m not assuming to know what’s the issue nor the solution, softwares will always have bugs, it’s how they manage or actively push towards resolution it and communicate about it, even if the root cause is in 3rd parties (and BTW, the fact that it works for all the other services other than Spotify doesn’t necessarily mean that the issue is on their end, who said that each integration is the same and exposes the same API?)

If Spotify tracks are included in a SONOS Playlist, crossfade is successful.

Thank you very much, you are a genius:)