Why can't I add live radio stream urls to a Playlist?

I still don’t really understand why you are asking about adding radio streams to a playlist.  (Sorry, I read your original post as Playbar rather than playlist. Doh! 

But playlists are for tracks, not continuous streams. If you had a playlist consisting of several tracks then a radio stream then more tracks, you would never get to the later tracks.  And a playlist that consisted of just one entry rather defeats the purpose of a playlist.  Conceptually, a playlist containing a radio stream makes no sense to me.

Well, I created a single entry pls file which plays the stream url with VLC. 

So, next step is to get the pls file over to the music library, and see what happens. 

It's all a bit of a faff.  Of course, it would be easier if the galaxy app had a My Sonos category, but it doesn't, so my need for a workaround.

Is there any way to just create a native sonos playlist with an editor?  Need to check that on Google. 

I added a bit more to my previous post, although I don’t think it will add much value as far as you are concerned!

I have no idea what other approaches you could take, but it seems to me that you could spend a quite a bit of time on it for a minor gain.  Or most likely no success.  But that is entirely up to you, of course.

@castalla,

What App is it on the Galaxy watch, that you referred to earlier in the thread?

Agreed, except in this special case of ZP Controller

I read up on sonos playlist editing, etc.  It's a minefield!  Seems many users are frustrated by the sonos playlist feature. 

https://galaxystore.samsung.com/geardetail/yS5Npf8TAR?langCd=en

I tried to see if there was an android version, or some info. on the App, but can’t find anything that may assist you - I’m surprised it lets you play a Sonos playlist, but there’s no additional access to the ‘My Sonos’ tab to play a saved favourite station. Anyhow I hope you sort it - I’m not sure I would bother, as there must be other 3rd-party apps that will let you achieve the outcome you’re looking for.👍

So, the pls file loads and plays via Imported Playlists.. But there's no obvious way to convert the pls file to a sonos playlist file. 

I recall some online playlist converter program which I've used many moons ago to convert Tidal playlist to Spotify.  Perhaps there's something similar for converting playlist files to sonos format?

Your first post can easily be interpreted as an expectation, rather than “I know what I’m asking for makes no practical sense, but I have reasons”  Sort of like asking “Why won’t Sonos let me have 6 surround sound speakers?”