I had a birthday party at my house yesterday.
During the evening people asked me to put on music that was not in my free services choices. (You have to pay to listen to quality music on Sonos), so instead of subscribing again and again I decided to go to my computer and transfer all my music to folders on my smart phone (android galaxy s20 updated).
This is where the problem comes in... I open my Sonos app (because nothing works without it) and... it can't even find my music files.
Imagine that Sonos lists everything according to its taste and in its own way, so that it is impossible to find each other.
So I have 2 choices left according to Sonos APP, either press SONGS FOLDER and everything will play pell-mell or select manualy each song after the other on the thousands of useless folders that Sonos has created for me.
I tested on the SONOS PC version and everything works fine but not on the mobile app. But it was too late...(See screenshot) https://ibb.co/CQzrZDF
Here is the only way I found to work around this problem: I have to import my music folders from my computer and then I can access my personal music folders by going to the mobile app - Music Library - folders .If I want to find my folders transfered in the mobile apps (from this mobile device) NO folders are displayed.
If the SONOS programmers would offer us the ability to cast our PERSONAL music DIRECTLY from an SMART application like VLC PLAYER (like Google and others do) well, that would save us a lot of headaches. But no, it seems too complicated, why make it simple when you can make it complicated. Perhaps to encourage people to subscribe to paid services?
So needless to say that once again, it was Amazon Music app that saved the evening. I can tell you that to have a successful evening with Sonos equipment is quite an achievement!
What a shame.