I revised things recently when my old computer died, which we used as a local server, including a Music folder that we accessed via SONOS. When we got a new computer, we canned the server idea and placed all our files, including our music folder, onto Microsoft OneDrive. Is it possible to stream from OneDrive? What about some other online repository? Or must it be local?
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controlav, is there a standard API for accessing “cloud” content, or does each service roll their own?
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This is awesome! Nice job @MiDi
Thank you. That was helpful.
Midi s answer did not wrk for me. It took ages to type it all in correctly then I pressed enter and th enter et came back with the word ERROR. Really peeved as I can’t play my music library ,only amazons
This is awesome massive Kudos to Michael Dick - OneDrive for Sonos (michaeldick.me)
Google did much the same thing. I am just hoping that Sonos never removes the Local music service as I’m old school and still buy CDs as i like to own the music I’ve bought.
Me too. I like to own the music, plus I think half of my CD’s have music that you cannot possibly find anywhere else. I mean: I bought a CD in Turkey with Turkish music from the 70’s as a souvenir of a great vacation. Try and find that somewhere!!
So it is either my Music Library on NAS (Synology working well, so far, much better than Buffalo) or -the ideal scenario- my music folder on OneDrive, so that I do not have to worry about backups, and the inevitable mechanical failures of the Synology drive etc. etc.
What is Sonos waiting for?
A really smart guy named Michael Dick developed a tool that let’s you connect OneDrive to Sonos. I can’t seem to find it right now.
It worked bit when I tried it I lost the connection when my computer restarted. I’ll have to try again.
You mean it isn’t ‘just a few lines of code’?
;)
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Sonos and their partners have made it difficult, if not virtually impossible, for those of us with large music collections to play via Sonos.
If you were really a user before streaming services than you are already using a PC or Mac for your local collection, and that still works as well as it ever has.
There is an unofficial OneDrive solution, have you tried that?
It seems you have to grant access from the OneDrive for Sonos App to your OneDrive, I assume that allows read access for all files on your OneDrive, not just music files?
The only “cloud” services Sonos supports are those already in the Sonos “services” tab, and I don’t believe OneDrive is there. In terms of NAS style support, it is local files.
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Microsoft stopped the ability to stream music from your one drive when they dropped Groove and move moved to Spotify as a partner. It was a real shame as it seemed a great solution. I presume it was part of the deal with Spotify for them to remove the ability to stream users own music.
The Spotify deal was to sweeten the deal, it did not drive the decision to cut Groove. The deletion of Groove was indeed a bummer, but it just wasn’t financially viable, especially given the differing laws regarding streaming in different countries. Technically it was solid, produced by a smart team in Paris.
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