Sonos Move starts Spotify in the middle of the song

Using the Sonos app?

Using the Spotify app and Spotify Connect?

Using the Spotify app over Airplay?

Using the Spotify app over Bluetooth?

We need rather more data.

Using the Spotify app and Spotify Connect

In that case your local network traffic could be choked. Maybe the Move’s WiFi connection is marginal. Submit a Sonos diagnostic after an occurrence and post the confirmation number. 

Here's the confirmation number: 940341039

I also have this issue. When playing songs from Spotify on Ubuntu or on Android. It consistently starts in the middle of the song, but the spotify progress bar incorrectly shows that it starts playing from the start. Pressing |< (back) starts the song from the beginning.

Same thing for me. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and 2018 MBP i7. Whenever I stream from the Spotify app using the “select a device” feature to any of my Sonos speakers, it’ll start blasting from the middle of the song. This has been happening for 2 years. In terms of internet, our ISP is Xfinity. We have fairly decent wi-fi speeds on account of our mesh TP Deco router. We get about 500Mbps down near the main router and no less than 50Mbps at our furthest part of the house.

Happens to me all the time now, very easy to replicate. Also happens on a brand new Sonos system on a different network that I have.

Probably going to switch to Apple Music, hopefully the issue will go away then. Spotify and Sonos don’t play well together these days.

Been like this for me for a couple of years. Happens from iPhone, Mac, iPad ++

Any time I start Spotify and use Spotify Connect to play from any Sonos speaker or setup, the first song I play starts in the middle. Every single time.  System wide.

I’m only using Spotify ‘Free’ here, but not seeing the issue with the ‘Connect’ feature, nor with Airplay. Maybe if anyone uses Airplay, it might be worth trying that, just to see if the same thing happens, in which case it could just be a local wireless connection issue, which might be solved (hopefully) simply, either by switching WiFi bands in some cases, or a change of router/SonosNet channel (perhaps)?

I read in other threads here too, that signing out of Spotify ‘everywhere’ via the users online account and removing/reinstalling both the native Spotify App and the Spotify Service in the Sonos App can often assist with such issues too, so perhaps consider giving that a try (if not tried already).

Hi @acmove @wefef @ryanbv @tiaskillen & @danielrosenq 

Please ensure both your Sonos systems and your Spotify apps are fully up-to-date. Reboot your speaker, your device running the Spotify app, and your router. If the issue persists after these steps, I recommend you get in touch with our technical support team, who have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your Sonos system and what it reports.

I hope this helps.

Just came here from Google.. having same issue. Playing via spotify app and connecting to move, plays in middle of song showing progress bar a few seconds in. Using Android. Move is fully updated. Seems to have only recently started for me. 

Sure sounds like wifi interference. Have you submitted a diagnostic and called Sonos? That technical support team mentioned in the post before yours would likely be able to help. 

My Move and Spotify (via Connect or Sonos App) work perfectly on S1.

I believe some people have had problems with the Move on S2?.

Exactly the same problem with Sonos amps, Sonos Move, Sonos One with Spotify connect on a freshly rebooted system. Do it every time. Frustrating.

Don’t happen with playlist, only when launching single hits.

Have you tried going to your Spotify account online via a browser and signing out of ‘all devices’, then removing both the Spotify native App and the Spotify Service from the Sonos App on your controller device… and then rebooting/power-cycling All hardware, including the local router and then reinstalling the software (Spotify native App first) to see if that may resolve your issue?

Nope… Nor I unplugged all the speakers as well as uninstalled the Amps, change the wires, cut the electricity for a week and burnt incense…

Many thanks but I just expect it to work as a pricey system without hassle like that every now and then.

A precision: appart from Move, everything is wired (RJ45 cat. 6), MacBook Pro included.

Ah well never mind then, only doing those steps, did work for my daughter-in-law who uses Spotify and had a similar issue a year or so ago, (mainly missing a few seconds from the start of the track) so I thought it was worth mentioning.

This happens all the time for me, different networks (both home and at work), different sonoses etc..

The way to reproduce it quickly is to play music to it for a bit stop it halfway through a song, you can then leave it for hours or days, doesn’t matter, but the next time you connect to it and try to play a completely different song it’ll start halfway into it. Happens 100% every time.

This does not happen with Apple Music over Airplay. I’ve had this issue for at least six months and there never seems to be a fix for it, so might leap over to Apple Music completely now. It’s funny how Spotify complains at Apple building their service into their eco system only to offer an inferior product. 🤷🏻

Also happening here, either with Roam or Sonos One (on independent and new systems).

Happens 100% of the times!

Using spotify connect.

Have you tried the things mentioned earlier in this thread? If so, then you are perhaps best to speak to Spotify Support and if no joy there, then goto  https://support.sonos.com/s/contact and speak with Sonos Support Staff about the matter.

Same problem on iOS. Every time I start up Spotify and play on a Sonos speaker, I have to restart the song since it plays servals seconds in (not necessarily the middle). 

What did Sonos say, when you contacted them, as has been suggested several times?

@Corry P 

So this has nothing to do w/ wifi interference, old versions of software etc…. it took me a while to understand it but I think it’s a simple bug in somebody’s software.  My interpretation:

Basically there is a time pointer that keeps track of where you are in the data of the song.  When you stop a song in the middle, and sometime later, play a different song, that time pointer doesn’t get properly reset to 00:00, but rather is still on the position of where you left the last song.  For some odd reason the GUI display of the timeline DOES get reset to the beginning of the song, but the code that is actually pulling the song data does not.  That explains the mismatch between the timeline display showing the song playing from the beginning but the song not actually doing that.

I’ve been experiencing this for years, and every time it happens, i think “f’ing buggy code”...

So this is a Spotify problem?

Good question: I think that yea, the fault probably lies w/ spotify, but I’d be interested to hear what Corry et.al. think….

On the other hand I’ve think I’ve only experienced the problem with sonos+spotify, but to be honest, that’s how I do most of my spotify listening except for maybe the car?

Heavens know spotify has lots of other bugs that have haunted it for years (e.g. trying to play downloaded songs when out in the woods away from a data signal: I finally figured out that I have to put my phone in airplane mode to snap spotify out of it’s eternal, animated-dot loading mode)