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February 12, 2022
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number of connected NAS Drives

  • February 12, 2022
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Is there a limit of NAS drives that can be connected to Sonos?

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Best answer by jgatie

16 shares total.

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jgatie
jgatieAnswer
February 12, 2022

16 shares total.

    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 12, 2022

    16 shares total.

    Wait a minute! Given how resource constrained S1 devices were, someone though that the limit should be 16? Surely a smaller number (eg 4) would cover 99.99% of use cases and save precious bytes in the flash of every speaker. Curious decision.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    buzz
    buzz
    February 12, 2022

    Wait a minute! Given how resource constrained S1 devices were, someone though that the limit should be 16? Surely a smaller number (eg 4) would cover 99.99% of use cases and save precious bytes in the flash of every speaker. Curious decision.

    I don’t think that there would be much of a difference. Given that one must supply the complete file path name to the NAS, the drive and share names could be stored as a token and 16 possible tokens would require only a single byte per track.

    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    February 12, 2022

    You can always add an SMB gateway and combine all your shares (SMB or not) into a single SMB share to pass to Sonos.

    SMB gateway on a Raspberry Pi, should work elsewhere as well.

    SMB v1 Gateway

    106rallye
    106rallye
    February 13, 2022

    And who needs more NAS dives when there’s stil a 65k limit?

      Stanley_4
      Stanley_4
      Grand Maestro
      February 13, 2022

      Fitting on a NAS is not likely to be an issue. Still...

      His and Hers music collections that are also used on non-Sonos gear?

      Kid’s collections they can edit while keeping your music safe from grubby little fingers?

      Over the track count or meta-data limits might be worked around with multiple collections. Only power up the one you want to listen to and reindex. On a SSD based NAS that is pretty fast.

       

      In my situation I have my dedicated Pi based Sonos NAS with all of the music I’m happy with on it. A second “working on it” NAS where I put music I’m working on, (directory names, track labels, meta tags, encoding) that is shared to the Sonos. Once Sonos is happy with it I move it to my dedicated Sonos NAS. 

       

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