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Plex / NAS Setup

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Can anyone recommend whether I should set up a NAS with Plex support? I have a large collection of music and would like to stream it to my Sonos. I currently use Youtube Music but the integration with Sonos is buggy.

For example, I was thinking of putting my collection on a Synology media server and run Plex to stream it to my Sonos nodes.

Thoughts?

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melvimbe

As far as I can see, there’s the main version of Plex (outside of Sonos) and there’s the Sonos version. I only tried the Sonos version, but it was very limited, and hence useless for mixed taste in music - probably OK if you just like one genre.

Can you describe what you mean by this? I was planning on streaming through the Plex servers, not the local music library service.

You said “Can anyone recommend whether I should set up a NAS with Plex support? I have a large collection of music and would like to stream it to my Sonos. “ - so my assumption is that you want to stream it locally - otherwise why would you set up a NAS?

The part I didn’t follow was that Plex was useless unless you only like one genre. It’s your music library on plex, so I don’t see why there genre restrictions were coming from.

Regarding using plex outside of the home, it does work, but you need the premium/paid account for that.

Danny

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amun

As far as I can see, there’s the main version of Plex (outside of Sonos) and there’s the Sonos version. I only tried the Sonos version, but it was very limited, and hence useless for mixed taste in music - probably OK if you just like one genre.

Can you describe what you mean by this? I was planning on streaming through the Plex servers, not the local music library service.

You said “Can anyone recommend whether I should set up a NAS with Plex support? I have a large collection of music and would like to stream it to my Sonos. “ - so my assumption is that you want to stream it locally - otherwise why would you set up a NAS?

The part I didn’t follow was that Plex was useless unless you only like one genre. It’s your music library on plex, so I don’t see why there genre restrictions were coming from.

I was talking about the Sonos implementation of Plex, which (the couple of times that I tried it) was limited. It displayed lists in either album or artist order, which is pretty useless with a mix of classical and popular music - which is why I usually only use the Sonos folder view. I keep my folders in a more logical order. The full version of Plex does (IIRC) support the folder view.

If you only liked (say) popular music, then this limitation may not bother you as much as it did me.

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Tom Phan

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I’m curious as to what’s meant by “the Sonos implementation of Plex” - did Sonos make a fork of Plex?

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amun

I’m curious as to what’s meant by “the Sonos implementation of Plex” - did Sonos make a fork of Plex?

They implemented it so that you could use it from the Sonos Controller (add it as a service)… I believe that the development work was mainly at the Plex end and is receiving no further enhancement.

It’s been a while now since I tried it, though ;-)