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DorianBriand
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Era 300 placement for surround

Hello everyone,I would like to have your opinion and your suggestions on the future placement of my Era 300 which I will receive shortly. I...
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Sonos and Mesh network

Hi @Bourney Welcome to the Sonos Community!I believe that system will work with your Sonos without issue, yes.Please note that when you add...
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Two systems on one wifi network, with only one phone controller?

As you perhaps realise, one set of speakers would need to be factory reset and then set up afresh as a ‘new system’ while the other set is t...
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AnuContributor I
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Help 5.1 DTS etc What is the issue ?

I am not very technical but my ears realise and can separate 5.1 sound from stereo sound. HENCE the below question: I have purchased 2 x Playbars , 4 x Play 1s from a store near me in Sydney (stock will be available Thursday, 7th June, so I have 2 days to change my mind), obviously coz i want to have cinema like effect. But reading through the communities (AFTER purchase, as you always and should do...grrr) I realised some of you are saying that Blu Rays or Netflix wont play in 5.1. WHHHHAATTTTT ?? I have collection of 800+ Blu-Rays (1% 4K discs ) and rely on Netflix & Youtube heavily (800GB monthly family data consumption) I have bought 2 of these sets obviously for 2 rooms. 1st Room has LG65UH770T + Xbox One S this is what audio decode says for the TV: Audio Decoder: WMA/MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MP3/Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital Plus/LPCM/ADPCM/DTS/DTS-HD/AAC 2nd room has Sony 75X85D + PS4 Sound (Processing) Dolby audio format support - Dolby™ Digital, Dolby™ Digital Plu

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4 years ago
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sizz0pContributor I
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Sonos Arc Wired Network - DHCP and STP Issues

Hi Folks.I have a Sonos Beam gen2 and a Sonos ARC. I’m using Symfonisk Lamps as surround pairs with both of these setups. I’ve switched from RSTP to STP on all my switches in order to accommodate the Sonos gear, and wifi is disabled on all devices.The Beam2 setup is rock-solid, and I never have any problems. The Sonos ARC is a constant headache despite being similarly configured. Both are wired completely, due to living in an apartment in a city and having a terribly polluted RF environ. (I’ve tried using the products wirelessly, but they get out-of-sync constantly.)What I’ve noticed (after troubleshooting) is that sometimes the Sonos ARC will drop off of the network due to losing it’s IP address. Sometimes it’s due to a link state change caused by STP which is another can of worms I’d like to discuss if anyone has insight into running a completely wired setup and accommodating Sonos’ old deprecated STP defaults (I’m using Mikrotik as my “core” routing/switching gear and have Netgear “

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SythanosContributor I
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Connecting a PLAY:5 to a proxy network.

I recently purchased a PLAY:5. I live in Fort Campbell, and the only internet available to me is through proxy networks (like Boingo) hardwired in the barracks. Is there any way for me to use my PLAY:5? If not, what would I need in order to utilize it?

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6 years ago
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User88295Contributor I
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Do wired Sonos players extend the LAN? If so, well?

Assuming everything is hard-wired Cat5: if I daisy chain a MacBook Pro to a Sub to a Play:5 to another Play:5 to ultimately a router (Apple AirPort Express), will the MacBook Pro effectively be on the LAN (IP address, network performance)? I have terrible interference in my apartment so Sonos speakers are always dropping off the network and songs frequently drop out. I want to play music uncompressed and wonder if the best quality for that is the connect the MBP directly to the router or if I will get the same level of network performance by connecting the MBP directly into the Sub. Another reason for the question is that the MBP is next to the Sub and the router is about 50 feet away (as the cable runs).

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ratty
7 years ago
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Xfox1Contributor I
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HTTP POST always returns 500

I am trying to develop my own app to play audioclips on my Sonos One (Gen1). I was able to generate the token for the authentication and correctly perform all the GET operations (e.g. https://api.ws.sonos.com/control/api/v1/groups/{groupID}/groupVolume) but not POST operations. All the posts return me a 500 Internal Server error without content. I am trying to perform this requests with Postman. Already tried to google my problem but the solutions I found implements a different protocol with node.js. Someone suggested to look for the requests made by the official application with wireshark but apparently it does communicate directly with the speaker (at its local IP address). Does anyone has the same problem?

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4 years ago
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Noble101Contributor I
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Player disconnects and cant relocate connect

I have a Sonos Connect connected via Cat-5e to a Netgear GS748T switch, which also my computer I use to run the sonos controller software off of is connected to via Cat-5e. Firewalls is set to whitelist all Sonos traffic however randomly but often enough to have me write this the controller software will disconnect from the Connect than it states "unable to locate a connect". I can only reconnect it once I reboot both the computer and the Connect. This is really causing an issue. Im a Sys Admin by trade but I cant see any issues from networking side or the computer side.

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5 years ago
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Gav_SonosContributor I
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Music Library Artist Folder Artwork

Hi All. I'm relatively new to Sonos as of last year. My query is how to add artwork to Artist Folders on a shared drive. My setup is via a NAS drive. Now i'm not talking about Album Artwork. This displays fine. What I am talking about is when browsing my Music Library which is on a NAS Network drive and scrolling though Artist selection there does not appear to be anyway to display artwork on a folder to display on the sonos app. I tried everything from embedding artwork to the folder itself but no joy. Looking at other posts from 2013 has suggested it is not possible? Surely this is not the case?

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7 years ago
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IlanSonosContributor I
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Ethernet and Mesh

Hi I have a Sonos Amp Connect and Sonos5, both are connected by cable to a router. I recently added a Mesh network (TP LINK Deco 5) that is connected to the router and defined a separate Wifi network (with a different name then the one I have on the router). Since I added the Mesh network, my iPhone’s Sonos app can’t find Sonos on the network. My phone is on the new Mesh WiFi network. I used the app to put Sonos on that same new network and then I do see it on the app but after a few ministers the Sonos components switch back to the old WiFi network (maybe it is because it is connected by cable to the original router?). Anyway, I would like Sonos to be connected by cable but still use the new Mesh network. I’m lost.... Hope I was able to define the problem clear enough... Thoughts?

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ratty
5 years ago
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rbrown3rdContributor I
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Harmony Hub Clock Activities

I created 9 separate activities for the 9 daylight hours from 9 am to 5 pm. Each activity was created for the Harmony Hub using hourly audio files uploaded to Amazon Music and then saved as favorites on the Sonos app. I named each activity and set a start time for each hour and a stop time one minute later. Now I have a quiet meditative Tibetan gong that announces the passing of each daylight hour using my Sonos System. My problem is that if I am listening to Sonos and the hourly Harmony Activity plays, it ends and does not return to the Sonos music I was listening to. Is there a way to configure the Harmony Activity in such a way that it plays my hourly time chime and then returns to the music that was previously playing or at least restarts the previous music?

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7 years ago
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Delta 091Contributor I
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pcm vs bitstream new LG 82UM80 with optic to 2019 sonos play 5.1 surround

Helo,I just got a new LG 82UM80 with new sonos play bar and surround speakers. Trying to figure out best option for running 5.1 from nvidia sheild pro. TV gives me options for bitstream and pcm. Also has Dolby atmos grayed out but it shows enabled. Getting surround when I run YouTube dolby 5.1 tests.Again just trying to find the best option. Manuals and internet not really giving clear options on best set up.Thank you. 

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Ken_Griffiths
4 years ago
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kywixContributor II
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Retrieve Music Service List or Switch to Music service from current Queue

Hello there Sonos-comrades I am building a little software for controlling my Sonos speakers. I have managed a ton of things to automate, however, I am hyper struggling in figuring out how to build a POST query that returns the tree of options for a given music services. on the same line, I can post the following code and set the AV to my current queue but I can't figure out how to switch back to another provider (spotify/amazon..) 0 x-rincon-playlist:RINCON_5CAAFD7916DE01400#0 Any help on this is wildly appreciated. thx!!

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7 years ago
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MikeyIDContributor I
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SONOS setup with NAS Drive

Hi All!  Working on helping a customer move some music.  I’ve setup a Buffalo LS210D NAS drive connected to the SONOS system.  This music is being moved to this drive from an older iMac that is having issues.  I got the NAS drive setup on the router with a static IP address so it will always find it.   I went into the SONOS app and put that NAS drive into the music library setup. The music is in a shared folder on that Buffalo NAS drive.  It works like a champ.  We can see and play the music in the music library.  Here is the problem.  I started by just placing a small amount of music in there to set it up and make sure it works.  Now when I add more music to the NAS drive the app does not see that newly added music when we go to try and play it.  The previous music is there and plays fine. I can delete that from the Music Library Setup in the SONOS app and add it back again the same way it was and it sees the new music.  Below is the syntax of the setup.  All music that is added is ad

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Local IdiotContributor I
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Three Sonos Ones, One Beam, Multiple Rooms, Plus I Moved

This may be the most convoluted question of all time, so please bear with me, and answer as if you’re talking to a rather dull five-year-old, which you essentially are, though I’m actually in my 50s:I have two Sonos Ones, which were set up as a stereo pair at my old house; we have since moved, and got a Sonos Beam, primarily for the big new TV, and I also have a third, new Sonos One.Ideal situation: I would like to have each of the three Sonos Ones in a different room (so no longer a stereo pair, which sounds really bad now, having one in two different rooms in stereo). The Beam works fine for the TV, but I would like to be able to play music out of it as well at times, i.e. essentially having four different speakers.How do I get there from here? The two I’ve already set up are 1) in stereo and 2) calibrated for rooms in our previous house, which have much different dimensions than the rooms in the new place. So I assume I need to somehow wipe them clean and then start from scratch as

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BenningtonContributor I
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S1 and S2 on iOS

I have a mix of new and old products and was running the S1 Controller App.  I was trying to add a Beam to my Sonos network but is forcing me to use S2 app which I don’t want to do.  How do I override and continue to use the S1 app - I have thousands of dollars invested in older Sonos equipment and have no interest in upgrading it.

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Ken_Griffiths
3 years ago
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Ryder92Contributor I
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Setup and Input lag. HDMI, 4k Projector, SPDIF, and a computer?

Hey, apologies if this has been asked before, I just want to check something before dropping too much money. My plan is to use my desktop as a multimedia station with an HDMI running from my 1080ti to a 4k projector (Viewsonic PX747) and the SPDIF running to the back of my playbar. I've also got 4 Sonos one's that will be in the mix. I basically just want to confirm that this setup won't incur any significant audio lag? I used to run the same setup, but with a 1080p monitor and every few weeks or so would run into incremental issues with lag (not sure why). Would appreciate any comments/advice.

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NyvekContributor I
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Support LPCM 7.1 on Beam ?

Would it be possible to add LPCM 7.1 support on the sonos beam as it was the case for the Arc recently? I have a lot of problems with voice/image synchronization on my ps5, I ordered an HD Fury Arcana hoping that this will solve the problem.... I find it absurd to have so many problems in 2021 with formats that should have been standardized a long time ago.

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2 years ago
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JRukaContributor I
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LG GX + Sonos Arc + 2x Era 300 + Hue Sync + Playstation 5

I am having the "popping sound" issue while playing playstation 5.I connected the Sonos Arc to the HDMI2 of the LG TV (eARC) while the Philips Hue Box to the HDMI1 input.On the Philips Hue Box I connected the PS5 to the HDMI2 input. my TV settingsAudio Output: HDMI ArcDTV Sound Setting: AutoHDMI audio input format: bitstreamDigital Audio Output: Pass ThrougheARC: ONSimplink (HDMI-CEC): Disabled my ps5 settingsDevice Type: AV AmplifierNumber of channels: 5.1Audio format (priority): Linear PCMCan someone explain to me why I keep getting the popping sound? Thank you!

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nw83Contributor III
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Was about to buy a load of Sonos speakers but have config questions now

So I have been looking at Sonos for a while and I've listened to a load of their speakers in shops and in friends houses etc. My intention was to buy 1x BEAM 4x ONE 1x SUB In the main room I wanted the BEAM, SUB and 2x ONE (the other ONE's would be throughout the house and I'd add to the system in due course) In the main room I wanted a 5.1 set up for TV and then presumed I'd be able to use the 2xONE speakers and SUB for music which I'd stream via airplay. After reading on here I gather that isn't possible, which is a shame to say the least! So my questions are: - Could I use the ONE's as a stereo pair with the SUB, but though the Sonos app rather than via airplay? (in which case I may as well just buy the Play 1's as I wont need the air play function, and I already have an Echo dot anyway) OR, if that still wont work, which is hugely annoying... - How long a process is it to unpair the ONE's / Play 1's from the BEAM and set them up as a stereo pair with the S

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Paulw123
5 years ago
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MorrispwContributor I
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Gen1/Gen2 Play 5's w/Sub

I currently have a gen 1 and a gen 2 play 5, two sonos subs. I can't split them to left and right since they wouldn't be equal, and right now I have the older gen 1 in the garage. For my main room, I have high vaulted 25ft ish, ceilings, and a very open multi level living room. I was trying to hook up and have two subs, one for each level, into my one play 5 second gen. Is there a limit, one play component to one sub at this point? I'm looking to add a second play5, two play 1's, and a sound bar shortly, to help even the room out with surround sound. Will I have to make it two separate rooms, then group them so the subs work together? Or will I be able to just add the sub to the second play 5 when I split them left to right?

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Airgetlam
6 years ago
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smgulliksonContributor I
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TV Remote Control

All I would like to do is add a record control to change volume.

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Keith N
6 years ago
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BOJOContributor I
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Turntable with two Sonos Era 100 (in stereo setup)

Hi In the manual it says: “Note that Line-In is disabled on Era 100s that are being used as surround speakers in a Sonos home theater.”  What about a simple stereo-setup with two 100s? Kind regards 

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SarahN
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Hugo21Contributor I
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Sonos sub placement

Newbie here..About to purchase a sub Gen 3 and wonder this placement for vertical position.  This place I propose is just near to corner of wall and furniture. Based on this dimension, after placement for this new sub, I’m expecting both side gaps will be about 70mm.   it is sufficient for a better bass reproduction or what is min limitation should I consider.   

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2 years ago
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User283186Contributor I
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Arc + AMP with 4 in-ceiling speakers

Helping to replace parents home theater set-up. The current HT set-up is 2 in-wall front speakers, 2 in-ceiling rear, velodyne sub, and Sonos Connect; all powered by a Denon receiver (no center channel).  Older parents complain they can not hear TV audio very well and requested a sound bar. The new set-up is going to be Arc + Sonos Sub and removing the Denon and Velodyne. I am wondering about the remaining 4 in-wall/ceiling speakers to incorporate as surrounds + full stereo in music mode. I can just wire up the rear speakers to the new Sonos Amp as surrounds but I hate “wasting” the 2 front speakers. If I wire both front and rear to the Amp as surrounds will this create an unpleasant listening experience for TV? I would think in full stereo music mode it would sound pretty good.Any other options for using Arc + Sub with BOTH front and rear surrounds??Thank you!

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LM0891Contributor I
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Sonos Five Pair, Can you use both aux line-ins?

Forgive me if this has been asked many times before, just couldn't find a thread with my requirements.  I'm about to receive my 2nd Five to form a stereo pair.I currently use Roon via an endpoint and Dragonfly Cobalt DAC to aux line-in. I find I get better sound quality this way over using Tidal/Qobuz through the Sonos app or Tidal Connect.I do watch movies and want to simplify my current mess of HomePods and Apple TV but don't want a soundbar. I plan to use the Fives in stereo and will likely use a DAC from TV to aux line-in on one of the Fives. TV watching is not my priority so sound quality isn't important.As I use Roon as per above, can I use both aux line-ins (not at the same time), if so will they play out of both speakers? Thanks in advance 

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novacordContributor II
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NEW SONOS AMP

I have Sonos beam,sonos SUB and 2 Sonos play 1 as a rear speakers. Do I need Sonos AMP and what will be improvement for me.Sonos beam is connected with new Samsung 75" 4K TV via ARC HDMI cabel.Bye or not to bye Sonos AMP?

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Ken_Griffiths
5 years ago
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