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  • May 15, 2024
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jgatie
  • January 22, 2025

Well good for you. As previously stated I have followed those steps several times, on multiple machines, with no success and I am far from being the only person with this problem.

They ‘fixed’ a problem that did not exist and, in doing so, took away the functionality a lot of users wanted.

Personally, I am so over it with Sonos. What I currently have is a Spoitify player and nothing more. As my moral objections to Spotify’s unconscionable business practises increase, it’s just a matter of time before another eight Sonos products end up in landfill.

 

I’m not denying there are problems.  My reply was to your claim that Sonos “have accidentally killed this functionality and have no idea how to fix it.”  They didn’t kill it, and they have fixed it for many, many users (and probably could for you if you called support). 


Ken_Griffiths

Well good for you. As previously stated I have followed those steps several times, on multiple machines, with no success and I am far from being the only person with this problem.

They ‘fixed’ a problem that did not exist and, in doing so, took away the functionality a lot of users wanted.

Personally, I am so over it with Sonos. What I currently have is a Spoitify player and nothing more. As my moral objections to Spotify’s unconscionable business practises increase, it’s just a matter of time before another eight Sonos products end up in landfill.

Well a local library is not only working here for me, our children and several friends have it working in their Homes too, that includes sharing from MacOS, Windows and NAS - so across the entire spectrum of sharing a folder structure over a LAN subnet. 

Have you spoken to Sonos Support Staff about your library issues? If not, then I can only suggest that you give them a call. Here is the link to contact them…

https://support.sonos.com/s/contact


  • Lyricist I
  • January 31, 2025

After 2 weeks of trying to set up my library in a new win11 pc (thanks microsoft...) i finally made it following the guides posted here, and disabling firewall and other internet protection, so im posting this in case anybody else forgot to turn it off 


Ken_Griffiths

After 2 weeks of trying to set up my library in a new win11 pc (thanks microsoft...) i finally made it following the guides posted here, and disabling firewall and other internet protection, so im posting this in case anybody else forgot to turn it off 

You shouldn’t need to switch off the firewall - see the Sonos Support link here for windows 10 - I assume the steps are same/similar for Windows 11:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/configure-your-firewall-to-work-with-sonos