Lost all my playlist

It was my original intention as I was worried about the S1/S2 transition trashing them, but this proved to be a rare event. Most use-cases today are people wanting to convert to other formats which it works well for.

Its a good point though, and it is pretty straight-forward to do. Well except the UX, which always takes me longer than the underlying code as its not my comfort zone.

So… given identical library shares and the same streaming accounts a playlist would ‘just work’ on the receiving household?

Hi Controlav,

Thanks a lot for the tip. I was actually able to recover most of my playlist from the ZP100. Sorry but can you please confirm how do I export the playlist as I was not able to find how to do it from the S1 app. 

I ran into problems with Ratty’s process above after the Sonos one was successfully connected (I then removed the ZP100 before the update but it didn’t complete because the ZP 100 was disconnected) so I want to make sure I have a safe back up before I try again.

Many thanks to you both, seems like we should be able to make it work!

So were you able to add the One to the ZP100, with the One downgrading itself successfully S2->S1?

If you then disconnected the ZP100 the upgrade S1->S2 of the One should have proceeded okay. In fact the presence of the ZP100 would have prevented the upgrade.

It might help to exit and restart the S1 app, so it forgets about the ZP100. You could then go to Settings > System > System Tools > System Compatibility Check and nudge the S1->S2 update along.

Hi Ratty,

I just found out that I only have one ZP100 left (no other back-up) so I don’t want to screw things up. Can you confirm how to export the playlists and reimport them later once I have set up the system before we attempt anything.

Thanks!

No I cannot. There is no official way to do so.

@controlav has a third party export tool. 

Hi Controlav,

Happy new year! Could you please confirm how I can back-up and import my playlists? Happy to buy a 3rd party app if needed. 

Many thanks!

Note that every sonos ‘player’ on your system retains a copy of all your playlists. So the only ‘likely’ way to lose them is by factory resetting every device in the Household and the chances of doing that are fairly negligible, unless done (accidentally) on purpose.
 

You ‘may’ want to consider the risk of using a 3rd party unsupported export/import tool. My thoughts here are that might bring about the possibility of introducing some corruption to the device data as it’s an unofficial/untested procedure, particularly as Sonos seem to regularly update/alter their device firmware, aswell as their software.
 

So just as a ‘friendly’ suggestion, at the very least, I would perhaps switch off ‘all but one’ of your products beforehand, that’s if you decide to look at 3rd party exporting/importing of your ‘valuable’ system data.

Hi Ken,

Thanks for jumping in here, appreciate the concerns. 

Can you confirm then that I won’t risk losing the only copy of my playlist that is stored on my ZP100 even if there is a SW upgrade. Concerned that I don’t control the upgrade process (last time I followed the process recommended by Ratty above, Sonos triggered an upgrade) and don’t want to wipe out any valuable data during the process. 

Thanks!

An upgrade does not erase playlists. A factory reset does.