Skip to main content
Manda
Contributor I
December 2, 2013

I would like to be able to start playback from any point within a playlist

At present, I have two options:

1. Select a single track to play.
2. Select all tracks to play, starting with the first.

What I want to be able to do is find a point in a playlist, eg. halfway through / from 3 months ago / the bit where I added loads of Laura Mvula tracks / whatever, and play from that point. This is normal in most playback systems but, unless I'm very much mistaken, not possible in Sonos.

Am I being thick, or can we have an update please?

Thanks,
Manda
      This topic has been closed for further comments. You can use the search bar to find a similar topic, or create a new one by clicking Create Topic at the top of the page.

      32 replies

      Show previous replies
      Garry_1
      Trending Lyricist I
      April 27, 2018
      How can you possibly use multiple queues?

      I choose to listen to (largely) box sets of classical music on repeat e.g. Haydn 150CD set. However, there will be times when I want to play one or more tracks (maybe even for a whole evening) that are contemporary music. I do not want these tracks left in the queue, so have to delete them all after use. I would then like the classical side simply to go back to playing, from where it left off. Because the Sonos queue handling is limited, I can't do this. I used to be able to make a note of the track number that was playing before I switched music type (e.g. 1289/2423), but now that Sonos has removed this info from all but the PC controllers I can't even do that. I'd have to make a note of the detailed title of the track that was playing, and then look through 2,423 tracks to try and find where I was.

      Playlists or saved queues do not help, as they don't retain pointers to the track that was playing played - they always start at the beginning. So I'd quite like the facility for either multiple queues, each retaining their pointers, or maybe a 'scratch' queue of some sort - so that at the end I could just delete it and go back to my main queue, exactly where I left off.

      Please don't assume that, just because Sonos suits your way of working, that it suits everyone - it doesn't.
      Garry_1
      Trending Lyricist I
      April 27, 2018
      That's exactly what i need to. When i have a party sometimes people want to hear a little something else. Now i know i could add them to the queue but in the event i want to change back i have to do a lot of work to make that happen
      Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement