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Andy W58
Avid Contributor I
July 18, 2025
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M3U playlist from music library

  • July 18, 2025
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I have used VLC to create an M3U playlist of 10 songs from my NAS, Sonos can see the playlist and will allow me to put the playlist on the queue (I’m using the PC controller) but the queue shows the songs in a weird format and if I try to play them I get a message saying the share //192.168.50.90/multimedia does not exist. This is weird because that address is the one that the Sonos music library folder is attached to in settings.

The first few lines of the M3U are below:-

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:176,10cc - Good Morning Judge
Cds2/10cc/Deceptive%20Bends/Good%20Morning%20Judge.flac
#EXTINF:169,10cc - Honeymoon With B Troop.flac
Cds2/10cc/Deceptive%20Bends/Honeymoon%20With%20B%20Troop.flac
 

The songs appear on the queue as Good%20Morning%20Judge.flac and Honeymoon%20With%20B%20Troop.flac

 

Anybody any ideas what’s wrong. All i Wanted to do was use an easier program to create a playlist of my own music and then be able to play that in Sonos.

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Best answer by controlav

Try getting rid of the escaped characters ie replace %20 with spaces.

 

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Pools-3015
Pools-3015
Prodigy I
July 18, 2025

This is because M3U is not a supported format. Have a look at this page for supported formats:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/supported-audio-formats-for-sonos-music-library

Andy W58Author
Avid Contributor I
July 18, 2025

You have misunderstood. The underlying files are in .flac format which is supported and if I select these files via artist, album, folder etc the system will play them.

this is a playlist in a format that sonos sees so should play but doesn’t 

controlav
controlavAnswer
Lead Maestro
July 19, 2025

Try getting rid of the escaped characters ie replace %20 with spaces.

 

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Andy W58Author
Avid Contributor I
July 19, 2025

Yep Controlav I had just worked that one out before you posted.

Replacing the %20 with space and further on in the list the %whatever with ‘ seems to have worked.

I can’t find a way to make VLC output it without the % replacements but at least I can load it into Notepad and use replace (very old school).

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