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sorry for getting way off topic here, but yes, wine experts suffer from the same biases in detecting things that other folks do.
Not to worry. I am sure that a seven year old thread such as this one is entitled to do the occasional meandering, just to survive:D.
I am sure the OP doesn't mind, it keeps the thread accessible for him to do his once in six months or so posts here.

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I'm a new SONOS user and was shocked that these tracks don't work! I've been using 24/96 files with my 2002 v1 SlimDevices Squeezebox with no problems, yet the SONOS just won't play them at all.

I have tons of my music in varying bitrates in Apple Lossless Codec, and whether or not everyone thinks the improvement is worth it, people have the tracks and want to play them. I don't care in this setting if the music is downsampled or played at the proper bit rate, but it needs to play.

I have a big library of music, and it doesn't make sense to clone the tracks, and downsample them so I have duplicates everywhere.

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I'm a new SONOS user and was shocked that these tracks don't work! I've been using 24/96 files with my 2002 v1 SlimDevices Squeezebox with no problems, yet the SONOS just won't play them at all.

I have tons of my music in varying bitrates in Apple Lossless Codec, and whether or not everyone thinks the improvement is worth it, people have the tracks and want to play them. I don't care in this setting if the music is downsampled or played at the proper bit rate, but it needs to play.

I have a big library of music, and it doesn't make sense to clone the tracks, and downsample them so I have duplicates everywhere.

Sonos has no plans to support hires audio. Your only choice is to downsample or not play them at all.

How terrible they aren't willing to listen to the customer. There are about NINE HUNDRED posts on this topic on this thread alone. SONOS says to connect to your NAS but isn't willing to do what's been typical for well more than a decade and can be done open source, simple transcoding.

How terrible they aren't willing to listen to the customer. There are about NINE HUNDRED posts on this topic on this thread alone. SONOS says to connect to your NAS but isn't willing to do what's been typical for well more than a decade and can be done open source, simple transcoding.

900 posts in 7 years, most of them by the same very few, but very vocal hires fans. The hires market is a niche of a niche, and obviously Sonos does not see the necessity of supporting it.

These are the people who were vocal, but that doesn't mean others don't care and nor does it mean that other potential customers don't care. I'm one more added to the list. The fact is that more and more content comes out each day by new artists and old.

I have albums from Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Mumford and Sons, and others. Now that bandwidth and storage isn't much of a concern, higher bit rate audio is going to be a bigger deal. The very least Sonos could do is recognize that it doesn't support a file and exclude it from the list. As it is now, you just get an error. It's very troubling when all the lower-tier devices support such files.

I for one was thinking of putting out a whole home audio system with sonos, but I can't with this lack of support.

These are the people who were vocal, but that doesn't mean others don't care and nor does it mean that other potential customers don't care. I'm one more added to the list. The fact is that more and more content comes out each day by new artists and old.

I have albums from Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Mumford and Sons, and others. Now that bandwidth and storage isn't much of a concern, higher bit rate audio is going to be a bigger deal. The very least Sonos could do is recognize that it doesn't support a file and exclude it from the list. As it is now, you just get an error. It's very troubling when all the lower-tier devices support such files.

I for one was thinking of putting out a whole home audio system with sonos, but I can't with this lack of support.

Good luck finding one that does support it and is as reliable as Sonos.

Now that bandwidth and storage isn't much of a concern...

... you can transcode them once and be done with it.

If I transcode them once, then I need to have two different libraries, which is not easy to manage. It's so strange that they don't support this most basic of features that has been available for more than a decade even in open source.

If I transcode them once, then I need to have two different libraries, which is not easy to manage. It's so strange that they don't support this most basic of features that has been available for more than a decade even in open source.

They don't. You can complain about it like all the other whiners for the last seven years, or you can transcode them and get it over with.

And by the way, Bose, Samsung, and Denon don't support it either.