I’m losing my mind with a very specific Spotify/Sonos issue and wondering if anyone else is seeing this.
I have a fairly large Sonos system, ~13 speakers, all on Wi-Fi with a 2-node eero Pro 7 mesh.
Current behavior is extremely reproducible:
– Spotify music → Sonos: works fine
– Spotify podcasts → Sonos: starts normally, then after ~1–3 minutes all (or nearly all) speakers go silent
– Spotify still shows the podcast as playing and the progress bar continues
– Sonos still shows every speaker connected and playback active
– Disconnecting/reconnecting Spotify to the Sonos group gets audio going again, but then it dies again a few minutes later
– Amazon Music podcasts → same Sonos group: completely stable
– Apple Music/AirPlay has also been stable
So this really doesn’t look like general Wi-Fi/grouping instability anymore. The exact same speakers/network happily play other content.
Things I’ve already tried:
– Rebooted entire eero network
– Changed DNS to Cloudflare/Google (1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8)
– Removed and reauthorized Spotify in Sonos
– Ran Sonos “Update Network” individually on every speaker
– Verified Sonos Wi-Fi signal is very strong, ~56–57 dB SNR on speakers I checked
– Everything is fully updated
Interestingly, earlier I had more general Spotify instability and the DNS/network refresh seemed to improve that substantially. Now Spotify music is solid and the failure seems isolated specifically to podcasts.
Has anyone else had this exact issue recently? More importantly, has anyone actually found a fix for Spotify podcasts over Spotify Connect/Sonos, rather than just using AirPlay or another podcast service?
Source: r/truespotify · by /u/NotMyRealFaceBook