iOS Sonos App Error: 'This content is not available' for Shared Library Albums"

i cannot change how i organize my music library. album search and reproduction works fine event with 2 separate folders. i will submit screen recording as soon as possible

Just had this happen to me - tried to play an album from my NAS via the “recently-played”, and all I get is a blank screen and “content not available”. Including when I actually navigate to the album through other routes (favorites, desktop app, etc.). So it’s not “not available”, just a bug with recently-played. Not a big deal, normally I’d use favorites or local library navigation, but, y’know, that whole “by order added descending” over “alphabetical” means favorites is still broken on mobile, so I do try to use the fastest navigation route to content.

I just wonder if it’s something to do with how/where recently played items are stored. Obviously, they’re stored locally (it would be incredibly stupid engineering to store them in the cloud, but, y’know, “Sonos engineering”), but maybe they don’t use the same references as favorites uses for your library/music-service items.

Where are you both even seeing ‘Recently Played’ in the Desktop apps?

AFAIK ‘Recently Played’ is a cloud-only feature, limited to the mobile apps only.

Some music services have a Recently Played collection available though.

“Recently played” doesn’t exist in Desktop app (though the desktop navigation to any item is way faster than the mobile app, so it’s less of a deal that the feature is broken or incomplete).

On mobile, “Recently played” shows content that you have selected and played from both local libraries and music services. Although clicking on a recently-played item from your local library shows “content not available”, even if it is the album currently playing. This is clearly a bug (feature doesn’t do what it’s meant to). But to be fair, the recently-played feature has always been flaky, even when it was first introduced in the pre-2024-meltdown working mobile app.

I’m also aware that it may be to do with “recently played” info being stored in the cloud, which, fair enough, is one way to do it. It’s the dumbest way imaginable to implement a list of shortcuts on a “system that manages devices that have local storage and an existing bookmarking system (favorites) on your local network”, but, y’know, “Sonos engineering”, unless Sonos’s eventual plan is to move all storage offboard and into the cloud, so our Sonos devices rely on internet connectivity for local network access.