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Hi,



I have been using Sonos fine for the last 18 months or so. In that last few weeks, I have had an intermittent problem playing the music from my music library. Playback stopped completely this evening saying that the computer Simon's MacBook Pro cannot be found.



I tried to update the music library, to no avail, I also tried to reset the sonos player. I also removed the music folder and tried to re-install, but failed to re-install it. I ended up uninstalling the Sonos player and reinstalling. Following this I tried to add my music as the music library where I keep getting the message:



Sonos was unable to add the music folder - The computer Simon's MacBook pro cannot be found



The folder I am directing it to contains all the iTunes folders that I have, so i don't know what the problem is.



Please can anyone help?



Thanks



Simon
Common issue if you updated to Sierra



Go into System Preferences > Sharing > FileSharing > Options ---- Uncheck SMB



Change Computer Name to Simon-Mac no spaces, < 15 characters



Under Edit button,change name to Simon-Mac.local





Network Settings > Advanced > Wins



Change name to Simon-Mac (if it hasn't already - it's fine if the name is in caps)



Back to Sharing > File Sharing



Turn SMB Back on



Reboot computer



Try adding the music folder in Sonos





For those who protest that SMB isn't needed...true, unless you can't get name resolution and the mediocre router that the mediocre ISP rents out resolves your computer name to 198.x.x.x
Thanks. That worked a treat.
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