Backup Sonos Playlists

As great as the Sonos system is, it has one major shortcoming - there is no way to backup your playlists.  Why this is, I have no idea - I can think of absolutely no reason why you would not want to provide this kind of basic functionality. Luckily, someone has created a workaround for this.  Listed below are the basic steps on setting up a Mac running OS X to run the spl utility.

First, add some utilities:

• sudo easy_install pip
• sudo pip install soco

Then pull the spl master from GitHub, located at the following location:

• https://github.com/stu247/spl

Once installed you can run playlist backups with either of the following commands

• ./spl.py -x MYPLAYLIST
• this will export a specific playlist
• ./spl.py -X
• this will export all playlists

The utility exports XML files (one per playlist), with each track listed by name along with its associated location.