Wimp entries in Playlist just cough and stop...

[djlacey]

Hello,

I use the Wimp service for my music. I recently built several Sonos Playlists including tracks on Wimp.

Now a week or two later when I queue the playlist on my Sonos system, some of the tracks produce nothing but a loud "cough" and then Sonos moves to the next track in the queue. Searching for the same track again on Wimp and queueing it works fine. The version in the playlist cannot be pursuaded to play...

Any ideas? What can be the problem. I've been building playlists for a 50th birthday party planned for the weekend. I'm not looking forward to having to repair all my playlists...

Thanks

//Derek

[ratty]

For external music services Sonos Playlists store a URI pointing to the track in question. This will have a reference ID used internally by the music service.

For various reasons the service can unilaterally change the reference ID -- maybe they switched to a different copy of the album, a different bitrate, or royalty arrangements changed.

Under such circumstances a fresh search on the music service will yield tracks which look ostensibly the same, yet the Sonos playlist entries fail.