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John_46
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Nov 4, 2016 5:16 AM UTC
Question

Sonos stops playing music after several hours

I like to leave my Sonos on all day and when we leave out of town. It always stops playing after several hours. ( we listen to Pandora or tunein radio stations). Anyone know how to fix this?
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    ratty
    ratty
    Nov 4, 2016 9:09 AM UTC
    Many free services automatically stop a stream after a period of a few hours. This is precisely to prevent them playing to empty rooms, wastefully consuming server capacity and internet bandwidth.
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      John B
      Nov 4, 2016 10:22 AM UTC
      Many free services automatically stop a stream after a period of a few hours. This is precisely to prevent them playing to empty rooms, wastefully consuming server capacity and internet bandwidth.
      Indeed. @John_46 - all you have to do is press the physical pause button on the speaker on leaving, and then again on return.
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        Kumar
        Nov 4, 2016 11:05 AM UTC
        I like to leave my Sonos on all day and when we leave out of town.
        I haven't understood the reason for the second part - but I think if you have a paid service, it ought to be possible.
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          Ryan S
          Ryan S
          Retired Sonos Staff
          Nov 4, 2016 5:09 PM UTC
          Many free services automatically stop a stream after a period of a few hours. This is precisely to prevent them playing to empty rooms, wastefully consuming server capacity and internet bandwidth.
          Indeed. @John_46 - all you have to do is press the physical pause button on the speaker on leaving, and then again on return.

          Just confirming this all is correct. Pandora has an 8 hour timeout period. After 8 hours of no activity, it'll stop playing.

          If your goal is to have music on all the time, you could set alarms at 8 hour intervals with no time limit on them.
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