Spotify playlist by name not working as documented

[HomeAssistantPim]

The problem

The documentation states you can play a playlist by its name from spotify using:

action: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.sonos
data:
  media_content_type: "playlist"
  media_content_id: "spotify:playlist:abcdefghij0123456789XY"
  enqueue: true

But it does not...
Spotify Connect /w Sonos behaves differently and the media player does not expose other info then the content id and playlist name.
Both seem insufficient to play the playlist on some other sonos device.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

11.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

sonos

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sonos

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[home-assistant]

Hey there @jjlawren, @PeteRager, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (sonos) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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[Mayhem-SWE]

Where in the documentation does it say that you can play a Spotify playlist by name? You need the playlist's ID.

[HomeAssistantPim]

Ok, my misunderstanding I guess.
How to get the playlist id of the currently playing playlist from a media_player then (sonos)?
I only seem to have some odd x-sonos spotify reference and the playlist name when the playlist was started using the spotify app (sonos source Spotify Connect) which is an app that allows searching.
I use that app because I have not found a possibility yet to search music via the home assistant interface (not for spotify, nor for local media).

[PeteRager]

That mechanism is different as Spotify pushes to Sonos vs telling Sonos to play a Spotify playlist. There may be a way to extract it from the media id or not. I think you'd have better results posting this question on the community forum as someone may have solved this already.

[Mayhem-SWE]

How to get the playlist id of the currently playing playlist from a media_player then (sonos)?

Not sure you can. At least not in Home Assistant, nor in the Sonos app.

The easy way to get a Spotify playlist id is to do it through Spotify. Open the playlist and click/tap the '…' menu, select Share, then Copy link. The resulting URL can be used as your media_content_id in HASS actions.