For at least the past two weeks, my playlists will no longer play normally.
One playlist of 68 tracks sometimes plays a couple of songs and then stops suddenly and without cause. Other times, it doesn't play at all. This I noticed for the first time on Nov 30. I hadn't played that playlist for a long time (possibly before the disaster app release), but it did play normally before. Individual songs sometimes play, sometimes seem to start but fail after a second.
Another playlist with a mere 6 songs shows the same behavior, and often refuses to play at all. I use it for alarm (it's called ‘Wake-up songs'), and the Sonos by my bed just sounds wake-up beeps at the appropriate time, doesn't play any of the songs. I've used that same playlist for my alarm for several years now, and up until yesterday, it worked perfectly.
The first, longer playlist consists solely of songs in my local music library. The wake-up playlist has 5 local songs and a Spotify song. The Spotify song doesn't do any better than the local songs.
The local songs are all on a NAS hard-wired to the Wifi router which the Sonos devices connect to wirelessly.
I've refreshed the Music Library twice now, and the songs in the playlists are all found. Often, but not always, the songs play normally when I play the directly from the library.
What's going wrong here, and how might I fix it?
ETA: Attempting playback from the Windows controller, the error I get when a track fails to play back is that //IFANAS/Music doesn't exist. IFANAS is the network name of my NAS, and Music the share where the music resides. Both are available, obviously, and have never changed names. When a library track plays succesfully, it always resides in that share.
ETA: I've rebuilt the 6-track playlist, removing and re-adding the tracks from my library. This may have solved the issue for this playlist. Can anyone confirm that rebuilding entire playlists is necessary since the new app? (This also removed a track from that playlist, as I apparently can no longer add Spotify songs to Sonos playlists. Created a new thread for that.)
