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Enthusiast I
May 7, 2024

New SONOS App - Missing all but 2 Playlists?

  • May 7, 2024
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I just installed the new Sonos app. After doing so, all but 2 of my playlists have disappeared? 
 

Specifically, if I selected Sonos Favorites, then Playlists View All, only 2 playlist are showing . . . countless are MIA.

I sure hope there are instructions for resurrecting my playlist. 

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Lyricist I
June 14, 2024

I just installed the new Sonos app. After doing so, all but 2 of my playlists have disappeared? 
 

Specifically, if I selected Sonos Favorites, then Playlists View All, only 2 playlist are showing . . . countless are MIA.

I sure hope there are instructions for resurrecting my playlist. 

I have the same problem , totally hate the new interface, lost playlists I worked on for years , wasted so much of my time looking for them, no idea what they are thinking 

Lyricist I
June 14, 2024

Playlists disappeared, would like the original interface back and all my playlists returned 

Contributor I
June 14, 2024

I just installed the new Sonos app. After doing so, all but 2 of my playlists have disappeared? 
 

Specifically, if I selected Sonos Favorites, then Playlists View All, only 2 playlist are showing . . . countless are MIA.

I sure hope there are instructions for resurrecting my playlist. 

Anyone fancy a Class Action lawsuit?

Lyricist I
June 14, 2024

This update needs to be rolled back immediately. I've lost all my playlists and there seems to be a focus on media services. I use my media from my Nas drive and I can't access it. 

Is there a quick way to roll back this update on my IOS device? 

 

This is absolutely terrible from SONOS. I won't be updating it on any other device I have. 


I bet that SONOS is being given a lot of money by streaming services to do this really truly lame thing.

Lyricist III
June 18, 2024

I have my Playlists back!

Woohoo!  But it required a little bit of work on my part…

Ever since the disastrous app update, my Playlists have been visible in the Favorites section of the Android app, but they were greyed-out. If I tried to open them, they didn’t contain any songs.  When one of my Alarms tried to start a Playlist, I just got the Sonos Chime. 

Yesterday, I tried deleting all my Playlists from Sonos Favorites. Then, in the Windows app,  I went to Music Library and opened Imported Playlists.  If I added those back to Sonos Favorites, they still wouldn’t work. But, if I instead selected Add To Sonos Playlist, it offered the opportunity to create New Playlist, and it added all the songs from the Imported Playlist to the new Sonos Playlist.  Now, the Android app displays the playlist (not greyed-out), and the Alarms can start a playlist that actually plays.  So once again I can play my own music from my PC, in playlists that I created, automatically launched at times I choose.

Contributor I
June 22, 2024

Sonos playlists are not showing anymore or they show “something went wrong try again”, furthermore the app is continuously closing. These problems should be fixed quickly 

Lyricist I
June 29, 2024

I spent years curating playlists in multiplie genres.  I am beyond disappointed that the playlists disappeared overnight AND that there was no notification on the consumer end in efforts to preserve the work.  

Lyricist I
July 2, 2024

Made this login to specifically complain about this horrible update for any Sonos employees that care to read.

As a retail salesperson I pushed Sonos hard because I knew how good their speakers were and how good their support was having a few speakers myself I could confidently tell my customers how happy they would be.

I'm now in a position where I myself hate my speakers for their lackluster software (specifically not being able to add to/edit playlists) because of this update and lack of care and just "meh" attitude from sonos, and I have already had some of my customers come into the store angry at me for having all the things that I sold them on ripped away.

I can tell you now, I will not be buying any more speakers from Sonos, not until they fix/roll back this update and I will most definitely not be recommending any more of their speakers to any of my customers. So not only have they lost me as a customer but any new potential customers I would have brought to them. I'm sure there are plenty of other salespeople in the same position I am in.. I know of at least 2 that I work with!

Fix your S#@t Sonos!

Contributor I
July 4, 2024

As others have said, I will be hard pressed to purchase another SONOS product. In fact I will NEVER purchase another SONOS product  

I have 5,000 songs in my library. I had happily played them for several years. The latest update will only display the four albums in my iTunes library that show in the recently updated tab. Despite selecting the iTunes music library that shows all my downloaded songs SONOS refuses to let me play my music.  

It's a real shame but SONOS has never been food at software. Now they have idiots directing the mediocre coders. Sad.

I am looking for a SONOS replacement as soon as I sent this message.

Contributor I
July 7, 2024

The point of a HiFi system is to listen to music.  I have upgraded hardware over the years.  Took me 1 day to remove all the Sonos and replace with a bluesound powered system for my music.  All and all better.  Sonos is no longer the only team that figured out the network.  Time to move on, I am definitely not the Sonos target user anymore.