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Hello, This is a recurring issue I’ve been having across multiple homes, routers, internet services, etc. Randomly when playing Spotify, the sound will just disappear, and then come back - with the song still playing. Diagnostic: 1307927628Thank you!

I have been on here researching the issue and it seems that there’s no one thing to do except report the issue, then let Sonos read the diagnostics from your unit(s).  So, here we go… My Sonos controller keeps telling me that when I’m on SiriusXM and listening to music, about every other song seems to be encoded incorrectly.I’ve reset my wireless (orbi), restarted the Sonos units, plugged one in directly to the interwebs and I’m still getting the issue.  

Hi there,Earlier this week I could no longer connect to my Sonos system. I hadn’t changed anything but the app on my phone, table and desktop could not find the system. I then contacted Sonos using the auto assistant and followed all the steps but to no avail. They wanted to transfer me to a live agent but after a 30 min wait I gave up. I use the Sonos S1 app having some Gen 1 Play 5 speakers, one Play 3 and one Play 1. Plus a Connect Bridge (also S1). As mentioned I had not changed anything with my wifi or router but from one day to the next the system no longer worked. What can I do after having tried all these things (mainly re-booting and trying to set the system back to factory although I am not sure that was actually successful since the system is still not working). This is all very frustrating and I would be grateful for some help. Or is the only way to actually call Sonos support? I have tried to find a solution on the forum but could not. Many thanks in advance, Tim

I have several sonos products and they come and go in the app. With the old router (apple extreme) it often didn’t show up at all. With the new router TP-link ax6000 it shows up but unable to connect. They are all stereo paired play 1(s). Newer speakers like move always work. We tried to re-add them (factory reset), give them static ips etc etc but no luck. So sick of how bud this works, invested alot of money in all these speakers and they hardly work. Running out of ideas. 

Yesterday the Sonos randomly started playing a Spotify song in the middle of the night. It was the last song that was played on my account. We’re currently going to change the Wi-Fi just in case. There’s also no alarms.But we’d like to know what other steps to take so we don’t wake up in the middle of a pretty loud ghost rave. We submitted a diagnostics report under the number #290517675.  Thank you! 

I just started the Qobuz free trial and have noticed that songs are cutting in and out sporadically during playback. I have never had any issues like this over 4 years with Pandora, Apple, Tidal or Subsonic.The issue with Qobuz is as follows. I have a stereo pair of Play Fives, and a sub, connected via WiFi in my living room. During Qobuz playback sound will stop on the left speaker, then comeback, and sometimes continue to cut out on one or both speakers. It happens consistently on any Qobuz album I play. This has NEVER happened with Pandora, Apple Music, Tidal or my streaming CDs via Subsonic on any of my speakers in 4 years so I’m sure it’s related to Qobuz. I have a meshed WiFi network (3 APs) using channels 1, 6 and 11. I have one speaker wired in the other room. I’ve tried changing Sonosnet to all the channels but it doesn’t make a difference. At this point Qobuz is unusable because the sound cuts out so much.I’d like to use Qobuz to stream but unless I can get the issue resolved

I group all my speakers together and have an alarm set for each morning. The alarm works fine, however one speaker never comes on. I have just looked in settings and noticed that the unit that does not come on is called a “one” instead of a Play 1? It is a Play 1 and bought at the same time as the other Play 1’s. Help!

Hi there, Been seeking a resolution to this problem for a while. Moved my system to completely wired and removed some components to see if they were the source of interference. No luck so hoping support has a better idea of what is going on. Lost connection to Spotify error. Song skips and general intermittent problems with music streaming. Local music works fine and home theater works fine.1226056816

I have successfully paired a Sony Bravia XR A80J television to a Sonos MOVE device via Bluetooth.  The settings indicate that the A2DP Bluetooth profile is being used.  However, I am unable to hear sound from the MOVE when playing a video.I was able to hear sound from a Jabra wireless (Bluetooth) when connected to the Sony Bravia tvunder the same conditions.Any recommendations on any advanced settings that I should try in order to resolve this audio issue?

Morning all. Is it normal to experience 3 second delay using a line-in on a Port? This is what happened a couple of weeks back …...We have a Sonos Port feeding into an old Pioneer Ax10Ai amp that feeds a 7 x Evid 6.2’s and 2 x B&W PV1 sub woofers in the garden. We use the Pioneer’s 7 channel stereo DSP to distribute the Sonos Port input. Works a dream.But we held a party a couple of weeks back (wife’s 60th) and had a guitarist playing into a mixer which we tried to feed into the line-in of the Port which then went to the Pioneer. Sound wise …. spot on. But the delay was crazy long …. approximately 3 seconds. It made the playback impossible for the guitarist who was playing live but hearing his output 3 seconds later. Should add that all our Sonos devices are RJ45 wired.I plugged a DVD/CD player into the line in to test. Same thing …. great sound but a terrible delay.Is this normal? And why is it happening? And of course more importantly, is there anything at all I can do to fix it

Hi. My playbase disconnects from my system constantly.  I have rebooted, done numerous factory resets and readded it only to have it disconnect. Yes the lights flash the correct colors on reset. I have tried wireless and wired.  I have rebooted my router numerous times including shutting off the system. The admin panel on my Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro does not indicate an IP conflict. I have 3 play 5’s in various places, a playbase, subwoofer and two play 1’s on a TV in a different room, a connect in my office and a powered connect driving an outdoor systems. My home network is very high-end with3 commercial Ubiquiti AP’s and 2 home AP’s to extend to patios. Sometimes it is easy to reconnect and sometimes very hard. I updated the firmware recently one of the times it reconnected.  I am exasperated. Please help. 

I know this topic has been brought up in the past  but I see no conclusion.When will I be able to use my free youtube music account?  Currently I only see No selections are available each time I use my Sonos app with my service.Everything works fine when I use the native youtube music app

Hi, I have some Sonos Play:1. One in the kitchen and another (two in stereo mode) in the living room. When I play or pause in kitchen, the living room starts playing or pause too, but they aren’t grouped. In this case each room with its own music using Spotify.The opposite does not happen, the living room players do not interfere in kitchen player. It seems a bug. How can I fix this?

Hi,I'm not getting sound out of my gen 1 Play 1 surrounds with Playbase.I've removed the surrounds and successfully tested sound through them as individual units.I've hard reset the surrounds and re added them. I get an error message saying there was a problem preparing them.The end result is no sound but I can control the volume through the top button.I've tried a variety of sound sources but it only played through the Playbase and not the surrounds.Any ideas? Edit: also checked to make sure they're WiFi enabled

I can’t add my surround speakers to my arc. I did before, but one of them dropped out, know I can’t connect them again. I did factory reset on the one that dropped out. The system asks if I want to may the two speakers surround speakers. I say yes, then one of them gives a sound and I click that picture. Then the system fails to complete the setup. The faulty speakers is again lost by the system. Before I try to make the surround connection I can use the speaker as normal with no problems. Any one know what could be wrong?

I have a large music library and quite often hit the limit at which point I move some albums to my “not-on-sonos” folder so I can still access them via Plex. I updated my index yesterday and noticed that an artist was missing - this artist has a “foreign” character in the name “ø”. I then checked an album by another artist that I knew had a foreign character “ō” and it’s missing as well. This was working for me last week - I could see+play the artists/albums using sonos!?   Why can’t I see them anymore? Is it a change to the sonos system or do I need to move a bunch more albums out before they will re-appear? And no, these are not playlists, they are mp3 albums stored on my NAS… the same place I have been storing them for years. Nothing else I can think of has changed in my network.  It’s a bit insulting if we can’t have ‘foreign’ characters… even my wife’s name has “ē” on it.

Morning all,I have a Sonos AMP which has been happily wired to a Panasonic EX800B TV (midrange 2020 set) via HDMI on ARC. The sound works very well via the AMP to the ceiling B&W’sBut, I bought a new 4k Freesat box which I enthusiastically plugged into the TV to try. Picture wise …. 10/10, all good. But no sound from the Sonos AMP. I’m not sure how to configure to get sound o/p from the add-on box to the AMP.Anyone have experience of using the HDMI to AMP when using a set top box? Appreciate any help I can get on this. Many thanks in advance

Hi,I have noticed that my Sonos system is using a lot of bandwidth. Does anyone would know why?97GB in the last 7 days. Unless this is local traffic (on my Wifi).What would create this? I am not streaming radio or music through the Sonos app. I only use the Sonos system as home cinema. Thanks for your help, Charles

Hi all, I have 2 Symfonisks (amongst other speakers)On the last update, the one managed to update to 13.2. The other could not update at all.So, i took it to a friend's house, i Hardware reset it, i created another Sonos account and i managed to update it to 13.2The problem is, when i took it back home and did the reset again to add it back to my original network, it cannot complete the registration. The speaker is added to the network but cannot register.I went back to the account i have newly created and i see that the Symfonisk is still in there.Can somebody assist me in :moving the speaker out of that new account deleting the new account as it serves no purpose any more Registering the updated speaker back to my old account? 

I am getting major speaker dropouts when trying to play Amazon Music Playlists.  I recently ‘upgraded to Amazon Music HD’ and I am wondering whether that is connected?  Diagnostic 8730064442 taken a few mins after it happened this morning.If I play a playlist from my local NAS it is fine.  All speakers behave and play music fine.  If I try an Amazon Music playlist it goes berserk with various speakers dropping in and out.  It is unlistenable.ISP is BT.  70 Mbps reliable download speed.  Location is South East United Kingdom.Router is BT Smarthub 2 which is hard wired into a Netgear 24-port gigabit switch (JGS524PE).Full managed wi-fi is provided across the house by five hard wired Ubiqiti Unifi access points (three AC-PRO and 2 AC-LITE).  Single SSID on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. BT Router wifi is turned off.Sonos is using the above wi-fi network.  I have 2 x Play 5 speakers and 10 x Play 1 speakers for music and a sub, soundbar and 2 Play 1 speakers for TV.Any help appreciated.Stu  

Hi EveryoneEvery time I pause YouTube Music, ( e.g. answer a call) and then I hit play again, the song suddenly skips to the next song.Any idea how to fix this? This happens with the SYMFONISK, Play:1 & Beam.

Earlier this year,  I installed about 12 speakers throughout my home. I have a few pairs of ones, fives, and moves. When everything works, it's glorious; however, I've had so many problems! I've spent literally hours on the phone with tech support between sonos and my ISP, and it's really getting old.  I've sunk a ton of money into this system, and I'm so sick of dealing with problems instead of enjoying it!The latest problem (which just started about a week ago) is that when I open the app, it says "unable to connect, let's fix it". The problem is that I am connected... my Amazon Alexa works on the speakers, and all the white indicator lights are on. My phone is also connected to the same wifi signal, but they are not recognizing each other.  I've tried logging in with multiple devices (android, iOS, PC), and it's the same with all of them.  Tech support blames it on the wifi, but literally everything else in the house works just fine, and I don't understand how it could be wifi when

Can I use play 3’s as front surrounds with playbase, Sub and Sonos ones at the rear?

Greetings!   I had been using Sonos Connect ZP90 for many years and few month ago started experience sound cuts out.  I contacted Sonos technical support team and they suggested to fully reset the system and connect the device to the Internet via an Ethernet cable. I did as suggested, but the issue is  still here.  Recently the unit stopped sound output completely. However I discovered that the sound output resumes while I keep pushing volume up or down keys (either on the device, CR 2000 remote controller or in Sonos iOS app). This observation made me suspect a hardware flaw or issue, for example bad electric contact on the motherboard due to poor soldering or something.  The unit is out of warranty for a long time so I have a DIY repair option.  I searched the forum and found the closed thread  Unfortunately, the thread does not provide a solution.   I plan to disassemble the unit on this week and re-solder motherboard contacts.  Any suggestions to focus attention?  Can you share you

As has been described before, this message has appeared when I try to EITHER: Create a new playlist, or even add to the existing ones I have. I am running a Sonos Play:1 and Play:5 on the S1 app.I called and submitted a diagnostic, only to be told that I have the maximum number of playlists allowed (I have 20, and one only has 11 songs in it!!!) and I have to delete some. I had already removed all the imported playlists which came from my iTunes, so when I explained this, the support agent refused to acknowledge this was a ridiculous statement, and stuck to telling me I had to delete playlists. Unable to pass me on to a supervisor, but did escalate my case, if that actually means anything. We shall see. So- has anyone actually found a workaround for this ridiculous issue? The tech support used to be far more helpful, i am sure!Thanks in advance.Robin