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muskavado

Niche Sonos query - unplayable music

Hi, I’m looking for some advice, or to see if anyone else has come across this (admittedly quite niche) Sonos problem before.

One of my favourite electronic music artists, Four Tet, has just put out an album under a pseudonym that is entirely composed of wingdings characters. (For those who are curious, you can find it via his main Spotify page in a playlist)

When trying to play this through either the native Sonos app or the Spotify app whilst already connected, the tracks simply won’t play, or if I am trying to connect to the speaker with the track paused, the connection will fail entirely.

Playing a different track from a different artist resolves the issue immediately. I have tried on an old S1, One SL and Arc.

Is there a glitch with Sonos unable to parse tracks with certain special characters?

TLDR; wingdings appears to mean Sonos won’t work for music playback

Posted Jul 30, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

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