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Sonos/Spotify Family sharing and Recently Played Playlist issue

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When using the Sonos app with more than one user account in Spotify (Family Plan), there’s no way to tell what recently played playlist is part of which member’s account.

The biggest issue we’ve been experiencing is the classic, one person is playing their music outside the home, but then someone at home plays a playlist from the recently played, and it cuts the other person off. Then a bit of back and forth stealing playing rights before figuring out what is going on.

It would be great to add the Spotify user avatar or initials in a small bubble over the album/playlist art in any area of the UI where music sources from multiple accounts are displayed (ie - Recently Played, Albums, or Playlists).

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@Corry P - do you or any other Sonos staff think this feature could be added to the S2 app, given @controlav has confirmed the feature is doable with the current SMAPI? 🙏

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Sonos’ earlier point was that it is on Spotify to ad this, as they do not touch this part of the app. The proof of concept @controlav made could mean Sonos could do this. The terms of their SMAPI could mean they should not be the one to do this.

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Hi @sixoversix

@Corry P - do you or any other Sonos staff think this feature could be added to the S2 app, given @controlav has confirmed the feature is doable with the current SMAPI? 🙏

Sonos’ earlier point was that it is on Spotify to ad this, as they do not touch this part of the app. The proof of concept @controlav made could mean Sonos could do this. The terms of their SMAPI could mean they should not be the one to do this.

To be honest, I’m not sure - although Spotify is responsible for what you see in the Spotify container within the Sonos app, the My Sonos section (and thus Recently Played) is not within the Spotify container, therefore I’m not convinced that Spotify is responsible for what’s seen there.

I will mark this thread as a feature request so that it is seen by the relevant teams for consideration.

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

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Hi @Corry P,

Thanks for a quick reply! I agree that because it’s in the Spotify Recently Played and My Sonos section - this data is already supplied by Spotify.

Furthermore, when you click on a Recently played track or playlist from a Spotify source and you use the “ellipse” menu > “More” in the pop up context menu, you get meta details about the item - including the username of the source.

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