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Enthusiast I
Jul 6, 2023 3:31 PM UTC
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Spotify artist search not working

Desktop and Android app have started telling me "spotify returned no results for _____ in artists. Please try a different category or a new search term" this morning. Has replicated on multiple devices. Only happens for Spotify and only in "artists", albums and playlist search still works. Any idea if I changed a setting or if something is wrong on their end?

I’ve reset the speakers and restarted the apps.

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Corry P
Corry PAnswer
Sonos Staff
Aug 29, 2023 9:26 AM UTC

Hi @conor et al

We believe this issue has, again, been resolved and we can no longer reproduce it in our own testing. If you do continue to see this issue, however, please get in touch with our technical support team to report as much. Thank you.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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Lyricist II
Jul 8, 2023 7:07 PM UTC

Still having the same issue. Sonos S1. No artist results in spotify for any search. 

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Airgetlam
Jul 8, 2023 11:53 PM UTC

What did Spotify say, when you contacted them?

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Bruce
Contributor I
Jul 9, 2023 11:37 AM UTC

I am using Sonos S2 - on both  an Android device and a Mac Pro.

The Artist search in Spotify does not work on either.

I have reinstalled Sonos and Spotify on my Mac. and reauthorised Spotify,,,no joy,

Diagnostic sent to Sonos. No Joy.

Please help!

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Jul 9, 2023 1:57 PM UTC

I am using Sonos S2 - on both  an Android device and a Mac Pro.

The Artist search in Spotify does not work on either.

I have reinstalled Sonos and Spotify on my Mac. and reauthorised Spotify,,,no joy,

Diagnostic sent to Sonos. No Joy.

Please help!

Switch to New Search (on Android), that seems better for many.

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Lyricist I
Jul 9, 2023 4:18 PM UTC

Search by artists is not working on my Sonos computer app, but does work on my iPhone app.

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Lyricist I
Jul 10, 2023 1:45 AM UTC

I’m also having this problem.  Can’t search Spotify artists within Sonos.  The artist search works fine within Spotify.  Please fix.

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Lyricist III
Jul 10, 2023 11:18 AM UTC

Same error, S1 system in Germany, spend 1.5 hours with customer service today.

Resetting router, app, speakers, system etc- nothing helped. artist search is not possible.

 

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Lyricist III
Jul 10, 2023 11:22 AM UTC

Did a test with cutsomer service, seems to be an issue with old versus new search - old search on S1 does not work:  artist search is not possible.

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Lyricist I
Jul 10, 2023 12:55 PM UTC

I have a Spotify Duo account and Sonos 1, and the search across artist, songs, album, etc. worked on the primary user. However, when I switched yesterday to the secondary user the search gives Spotify results on everything except artists. 

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Lyricist I
Jul 10, 2023 1:25 PM UTC

Same here.

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