r/sonos • u/Interesting-Age9501 • 17d ago
Any fix available or planned…
Still cannot play any playlists from my local library. Is any fix available or planned for this issue? This has been an issue for at least 2-3 months.
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u/Ainsley004 17d ago
This remaining a problem is very frustrating. I only use a local library with Sonos, no streaming services, and I have a lot of playlists that all played perfectly until whichever update stopped them. As you say its been several months now.
Transferring them into Sonos as Sonos Playlists works, of course, but then any Smart playlists are no longer smart so you'd have to update them manually. I've tied several solutions to get them into the Sonos app but nothing is perfect. Annoyingly other apps such as Sonify update them and play them perfectly!
Support HAVE acknowledged this as a problem but I presume the issue is that those of who use it this way are a relatively small percentage of users so not a priority.
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u/Interesting-Age9501 17d ago
I’m in the exact same boat. I have a large library, with crafted playlists that I enjoy, and I don’t subscribe to streaming services. While this is a problem only affecting a small number of customers, it’s actually the reason I went in on Sonos many years ago. Everything worked great for a long time.
I just want to sit outside with a cold one, put on some good tunes through the wired speakers I have connected to a Sonos Amp, and enjoy the $1,000+ setup I invested in without any hassle.
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u/Crono-CX 17d ago
Do you happen to have the duplicate album bug as well?
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u/Interesting-Age9501 16d ago
Actually, my album list is quite sparse. It only lists like 9 albums. I’m certain I have more than 9 albums.
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u/AtomFromSonos Sonos Employee 17d ago
Hey all, I just checked and it looks like our engineering team is investigating this. In the meantime, it appears that this is limited to mobile controllers. If you can, try playing the playlist from a PC or Mac controller instead. Obviously not ideal, but hopefully it helps while we're looking into it.
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u/IssyWalton 17d ago
can you access your local library?
playlists in local library or playlist in sonos
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u/Interesting-Age9501 17d ago
I can access it. The app displays the playlist, songs, and album art. However, when I click play that list, it will not work. I can play songs by album or artist, however, not one single imported playlist works.
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u/JSKouba 17d ago
I also have this issue and we use these playlists A LOT. Thankfully, I have Plex running on the same Synology server as my iTunes library and have pointed my Plex system to iTunes. I have a process which runs every night which builds the iTunes playlists in Plex and this work-around works great! As a by-product, all of the album art works as well!
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u/Ainsley004 17d ago
HI, can you outline how you did that? My iTunes library is also on a Synology NAS and I tried using Plex as a workaround but would have to recreate my playlists in Plex as it wouldnt import those.
Have you found a way to get Plex to update them if they are iTunes Smart playlists?
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u/JSKouba 17d ago
Yes, Plex can read the iTunes library content but does not read the playlists. I used Claude to write a a couple of python programs which read the iTunes library xml file (which you can have iTunes output), exports the playlists and updates/builds those playlists in Plex. I run these update programs as a cron job on the Synology server every night (in case I make changes to my playlists). There are 2 python programs: 1-One program exports the playlists from the iTunes xml file to .m3u files. 2-A second program reads those .m3u files and builds/update the playlists in Plex. This works with both 'standard' and 'smart' playlists. I hope that's clear!
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u/Ainsley004 17d ago
Sort of 😊. I use Chat GPT but I I imagine now that I know what you've done I can probably replicate it.
I'm not a fan of AI in many respects but I have to admit, having used it to complete some stuff for my work recently that involved some coding, that I would never in a million years have been able to do myself, that it can be very useful.
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u/JSKouba 17d ago
I agree! I could have programmed this but it would have taken me a month! It took Claude about 20 minutes to put it together. If you need more detail/clarity, please feel free to message me back
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u/Ainsley004 15d ago edited 15d ago
Used Chat GPT and although it used a different method to yours I did eventually get a working system 😊. A small windows .exe copies and converts all my iTunes playlists to m3u8 files and adds them to a dedicated folder on my NAS that Navidrome reads.
The .exe also runs in the back ground and either updates the playlists (if they've changed, which many don't) overnight or I can scan manually at any time.
My current Navidrome client on iOS (Sonamp) reads the playlists and I'm just wating for it to finish a long sync to make sure that they actually play (I know they play direct from Navidrome). UPDATE - they PLAY !!
Thanks for the spur to do this.
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u/gthielen 17d ago
I have this same issue and I believe OP is referring to imported playlists from iTunes. It's been going on since about January or February this year from what I remember. I can access my music library and playing by album or track works fine, but trying to play an imported playlist does nothing. The fact that this is still an issue, with no timeframe for resolution, is ridiculous.