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App favorites recall issues

  • September 29, 2023
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The Sonos app on my iPhone almost always returns the wrong selection when I push one of my saved favorites. It is ridiculous. It displays the proper logo but very rarely does it actually play the station I have requested and it indicates. It makes storing favorites useless. Does anyone else have this problem?

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  • Lead Maestro
  • September 29, 2023

There are around 15 different kinds of things that can be Favorites and under the hood they are all quite different. Can you give an example?


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  • Trending Lyricist I
  • September 29, 2023

Under “My Sonos," there are a variety of listings for stations etc. to be saved as favorites. I most often use presets I have saved under “Stations." But this problem also occurs when I click on an icon under the "recently played" items. In short, virtually anything I try to play from the app by touching the appropriate logo has a failure rate above 70%.


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  • Lead Maestro
  • September 30, 2023

Ah, Recently Played is very different to Favorites, the former is much fussier.

For Favorites that are radio stations, a url is saved, and sometimes those urls will quit working when a station changes it. These are fixable by re-favoriting it from the source service, which will update it.

Recently Played on the other hand is, frankly, a it of a mess. When an item is Played, its details are saved in a cloud database, but it is quite easy to play an item “incorrectly” in such a way that it will play ok right then, but not work when later selected for playback. This is especially true if playing items from outside the Sonos app itself.


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  • Trending Lyricist I
  • September 30, 2023

I do not believe it is a URL problem on the favorited stations. If you keep pushing the icon after it delivers a bad station, the right one will eventually play. Sometimes it takes two attempts, sometimes three but eventually works. And, yes, I pretty much gave up on recently played.