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Contributor I
Nov 13, 2025 8:25 AM UTC
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Pocketcasts STILL not syncing and still no solution?

I’m having issues whereby nothing in the Sonos Pocketcast plugin is syncing too or from my Pocketcast app / account. I see this was a problem previously but threads have been closed for comment, but a quick search of the internet shows this is still a problem for other users also. Is there a solution?

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controlav
controlavAnswer
Lead Maestro
Nov 13, 2025 12:54 PM UTC

Have you asked Pocketcast? They own the syncing, not Sonos.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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controlav
controlavAnswer
Lead Maestro
Nov 13, 2025 12:54 PM UTC

Have you asked Pocketcast? They own the syncing, not Sonos.

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Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
dreasmall
Lyricist I
Nov 17, 2025 5:34 AM UTC

Also looking for a solution. Pocket Cast is not working with Sonos 11/16/25

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Contributor I
Nov 17, 2025 5:39 AM UTC

Pocket Casts integration just stopped working for me as well

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Airgetlam
Nov 17, 2025 6:34 AM UTC

Has anyone done what ​@controlav suggested?

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Bruce
Lyricist I
Dec 1, 2025 12:45 AM UTC

Has anyone done what ​@controlav suggested?

Yeah there are multiple posts over on their support forums, as well as here, going all the way back to the re-engineering of the sonos app. As you might expect both companies essentially point the finger at the other. They really need to hop on a bridge call together, potentially with some of the impacted end users, and try to work it out from both sides. It’s very frustrating as it seems to me neither one has much of an incentive to dig very deeply.  

As a work-around, ios users can use the airplay functionality, and android users can use the (paid) app ‘Air Music’ from the play store to stream the audio directly from the phone, which is far from ideal but does work relatively well.

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Airgetlam
Dec 1, 2025 12:58 AM UTC

As he suggests, PockeCasts owns the process of syncing the data, not Sonos. 
 

If you read the documentation at the Sonos partners page, as ​@controlav has done (having written his own interface for Sonos’ system), you’ll find that Sonos writes the API that others use, and each ‘plug in’ streamer owns the data. Sonos doesn’t have access to PockeCast’s code, nor their servers, so asking them to ‘do’ something seems challenging. 

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Bruce
Trending Lyricist I
Jan 9, 2026 2:27 PM UTC

As he suggests, PockeCasts owns the process of syncing the data, not Sonos. 
 

If you read the documentation at the Sonos partners page, as ​@controlav has done (having written his own interface for Sonos’ system), you’ll find that Sonos writes the API that others use, and each ‘plug in’ streamer owns the data. Sonos doesn’t have access to PockeCast’s code, nor their servers, so asking them to ‘do’ something seems challenging. 

This reads like it’s from a Sonos employee who doesn’t want to take responsibility. It is Sonos’ responsibility to get this working for their users, regardless of whether the problem is on Sonos’ or PocketCasts’ end. Sonos needs to communicate with Pocket Casts and figure it out. 

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Enthusiast II
Jan 9, 2026 3:08 PM UTC

As he suggests, PockeCasts owns the process of syncing the data, not Sonos. 
 

If you read the documentation at the Sonos partners page, as ​@controlav has done (having written his own interface for Sonos’ system), you’ll find that Sonos writes the API that others use, and each ‘plug in’ streamer owns the data. Sonos doesn’t have access to PockeCast’s code, nor their servers, so asking them to ‘do’ something seems challenging. 

This reads like it’s from a Sonos employee who doesn’t want to take responsibility. It is Sonos’ responsibility to get this working for their users, regardless of whether the problem is on Sonos’ or PocketCasts’ end. Sonos needs to communicate with Pocket Casts and figure it out. 

Just to FYI the account isn’t an official Sonos account.

 

Pocket Casts has had issues on Sonos ever since the May 2024 update. It was indeed a Sonos-related problem, but given how long it’s been, it might be best to switch to a different podcast solution at this point.

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Airgetlam
Jan 9, 2026 4:28 PM UTC

Nor am I a Sonos employee. Just relating the facts as I understand them. There’s no requirement for you to like them.

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Bruce
Corry P
Sonos Staff
Jan 9, 2026 4:41 PM UTC

All Sonos staff are clearly marked as such, ​@Matt2h 

Please see to the right of my name here for reference.

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