Using HTTPS instead of SMBv1 for Sonos Music Library and Synology NAS

  • 19 November 2018
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My music library is served from my Synology NAS. Historically, this meant that I had to enable SMBv1 on my NAS in order for my Sonos speakers to find my music folder and index it.

However, I saw that Sonos v8.6 includes the ability for "the Sonos app for Windows [to] set up a music share using HTTP for local file sharing instead of the now-deprecated SMBv1 protocol."
https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-8-6-app-improvements-and-new-windows-library-sharing-6808278

Since Sonos still doesn't support SMBv2+ file sharing, I would like to use HTTP(S) to share music from my Synology NAS to my Sonos speakers. Logically, a Synology HTTPS file share should look no different to a Sonos player than a Windows HTTPS file share. However, I don't seem able to configure this properly.

Is this possible? If so, could someone provide more detailed instructions?

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It's not been exposed as an option to users to flip on or off.
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Making the HTTPS sharing configuration info available if it isn't a custom protocol that only Sonos can use would be nice.