12th May 2026 - 📲 New Sonos App & Player Updates Now Available! 🔊

Can’t wait for the about system refresh, been waiting since May 2024 for this one. 

There is still stuff missing.  Would like to see the Associated Product & WM-x ( connection type ) returned to the list.  I know how I can see the connection type.  Just not as convenient.

If you have an existing Sonos Playlist and attempt to save the queue as one with the same name, does it create a duplicate Playlist with different content but the same name or does it now ask you if you want to overwrite the existing one?

I actually have not tried it the way you describe it.  What I do is save the queue as a Sonos playlist with the suffix “2”.  So Cello Concertos becomes Cello Concertos 2.  Then I delete Cello Concertos and edit the name of Cello Concertos 2 back to Cello Concertos.

I will have to see if when you save the queue with an existing Sonos playlist name if Sonos queries you as to whether you wish to overwrite the old Sonos playlist.  That would be the correct approach, but don’t know for sure what happens.  I faintly recall trying that once and getting two Sonos playlists of the same name which is why I do it the way I describe in the first paragraph.

I also do playlist additions the same way with Amazon Music Unlimited & Qobuz.  Apple Music playlist editing is broken.

I’ll save you the trouble, saving a playlist with the same name creates a second, third, fourth etc playlist with that exact name. 

Tried an experiment with Sonos playlist creation and editing within the queue.  In the first screenshot you can see there is no list of Sonos playlists you already have so you cannot choose one to overwrite.  Instead you have to create the name of your new Sonos playlist.

 In the second screenshot the Atmos Classical 6 on the right is the new one I added a track to.  It ain’t 6 no more!

It's a good few releases then since Sonos removed basic checks to see if something already exists before either creating it or asking to overwrite it.

Obviously the Playlists must have an internal identifier or similar as showing users Playlists that have the same name but entirely different contents is quite unprecedented and quite baffling to me.

Don’t forget it was 2 years ago that Sonos removed altogether the ability to save the queue to a playlist. Prior to that it was always possible, and if the playlist name already existed the user was asked if they wanted to overwrite it - perfectly sensible approach. It then took 21 months for Sonos to even re-instate the current solution which allows duplicate playlist names to be created. IMHO this is a very poor implementation which has to be managed by various workarounds such as adding 1,2,3  or date etc to the saved playlist name, deleting the old playlist, then rename the newly saved playlist to get rid of the ‘qualifier’. Just imagine what chaos this would cause if your Windows or Mac file system worked in the same way and allowed duplicate file names to be created!

The IOS App still has no route back to playing the currently loaded queue after playing a radio station. Can it really be that difficult, or is it just another poor design choice?  This functionality was always available pre May 24, and still exists in the Sonos Windows App, and also 3rd party Apps. Would it be so bad to add the queue icon in the bottom left of the ‘now playing’ screen when the radio station is no longer playing?  Users would then have the choice of a) re-starting the radio, or b) viewing and restarting the loaded queue instead. 

Just tried it on the Sonos orange app on an iPhone 7.  Started a playlist then switched to TV.  The queue was still accessible if I wanted to start playing the music again. With the old Orange app when you’re playing a radio station you also have the option to access the queue.  It would be nice if the new app offered this option.