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atebit
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February 6, 2025

SonoPhone and Large Playlists

  • February 6, 2025
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I recently migrated my music library to Plex, which I thought was going to be nice because access to my music library is available as a “Music Service” in the Sonos S1 controller.

I have some very large smart playlists (thousands of tracks).  I ran into the “20 second timeout” issue that Sonos S1 apparently has when loading a playlist.  If I cut my smart playlist roughly in half, it loads fine, so I’m pretty sure it’s the timeout issue that’s causing the problem.  I don’t think that it’s related to the length of the playlist, as I have no problem going into my music library and shuffling the entire library, which is many many more songs than what I’m currently trying to load from Plex.

I was wondering if anyone that has experience with the SonoPhone app knows how it handles very large Plex playlists?

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Ken_Griffiths
Ken_Griffiths
February 7, 2025

Unlike the old S1 App, the new Sonos App loads the Plex playlist in ‘chunks’ - about 200 tracks at a time and it keeps going until the whole playlist has loaded - so it works somewhat differently to the earlier Apps.

MyChrmicalRomance
Enthusiast II
February 7, 2025

 

I was wondering if anyone that has experience with the SonoPhone app knows how it handles very large Plex playlists?

SonoPhone doesn’t load my ~32K playlist in Plex. Sonos POS app doesn’t either. 

Ken_Griffiths
Ken_Griffiths
February 7, 2025

 

I was wondering if anyone that has experience with the SonoPhone app knows how it handles very large Plex playlists?

SonoPhone doesn’t load my ~32K playlist in Plex. Sonos POS app doesn’t either. 

No, but the Sonos built-in library service in the new Sonos App will easily load that size playlist using SMBv2 (or higher) - I’ve seen it load a playlist of 51K+ tracks as shown in the attached screen-capture recording.

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