Two House Setup

Directly access or are you using a favorite or list?

Do you swap players between homes? Are the drive names the same? Are the both homes part of the same SONOS household?

Directly access. Example: album A, track 1, present in both ML’s. Attempt to play the track, I get “Access denied. Couldn’t play track1.mp3”

No problem playing content such as Pandora or Bandcamp, in other words, non ML content.  ML at the secondary house (where I’m at) added and appears in the list of ML’s. 

I have a Roam I move between, but both houses have their own Sonos systems. Drive names are different. Both houses are separate households, e.g. Home 1 and Home 2.

FWIW, I haven’t tried it yet, but I suspect if I delete the ML in Sonos that’s at my primary house, that the content on the ML at the secondary house will work. Kind of a PITA to do each time, was hoping for a more seamless solution, than to have to re-add and index each time I move between houses.

I imagine there are ways to link the two LANs to appear as one, but my secondary house uses an ISP (guess which one) that has CGNAT, so it would be tricky.

How do you transfer the ROAM? Since there are two different systems, you’ll need to Factory Reset ROAM and Add it to the “other” system -- for each move.

Check both systems and make sure that only the appropriate local library is defined.

I don’t have to do anything when moving the Roam between houses. It just appears in the system for each house. And, if I’m “somewhere else”, and I just have the Roam with me, the app will find it and create a system with just the Roam in it, without any input from me.

As for your comment about the “appropriate” ML, that seems to be the issue. The clunky problem is that there is no way in the app to “select” a ML. You can delete it, but you have to re-add and index when I go to the other house, and also delete the other ML. Replicating a NAS across two or more households isn’t that unusual, I was hoping there was a more seamless solution. 

I guessing my only option is to delete the ML that’s on the other LAN, then add/re-index when I switch locations. Will give it a try and report back. 

OK, like all things Sonos, all of a sudden, without me doing a single thing, it seems to be <partially> working now. I can access some of the content from my new ML now. Who knows? Even weirder, it seems like the content I’m able to access is somewhat random. If I can see the album art, then I can access it. I’m hoping that if I just wait long enough, all of my content will eventually become accessible - or not! Thanks to all, will update if I learn anything more.

I’m doing a re-scan now, hoping that will enable all my content. As I told someone long ago about working with computers, “why” isn’t always as important as “how”. If it works, I’m good with it.