AFAIK, AirMusic will play to your sonos whatever you can play (on virtually any app) on your phone.

PS: When I enabled SMBv2, it was purely a windows challenge, not specific to drive hardware.

Absolutely top man! Thank you SO much, I have my system back! 

That sounds very promising. My main Sonos app is on my iPhone 11 running IOS 17.5.1

Do you know how / where I can install earlier versions of the IOS app from?

This is the first I’ve heard of Air Music.  The page doesn’t have any contact information and I’m not even sure this is opensource, but it’s specifically for the Android platform.    Anyone have more information?  For example, porting this to Linux and/or MacOS would be great.

Here is the link I used, for those who want to get their systems going with SMBv2

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3?tabs=server

I’m using a Play:5 Gen 1 with a esinkin BT adapter I bought off Amazon for like $20 (more like $24 now).  It’s a small box with power in and a line out.  Ran it into the line in on my old Play:5 and set the line-in as the source in the Sonos Connect app.  Works great and no Sonos software necessary after initial setup.  If I turn off the Play:5 it still defaults to the line in when turned back on.  I set the volume all the way up on the Play:5 and can then controll volume on my iPhone.  The volume control and pause have some lag but otherwise they work fine.The lag seems somewhere around 3 seconds which makes video sync pretty bad but that’s not a use case that concerns me.

Simply just garbage since update came out and made the whole Sonos app unusable !!!!

Well, you are a star! And here's a thing, I've just had a long online chat with customer support, tried a few things on Android, bits of Amazon work, bits don't, then lightbulb moment, pretty much all my favourite stations are myTuner so asked if that could be it. Turns out it could and technicians are working on it, but no ETA!

So, I've suggested they might like to put something prominently on their website and message people so we stop wasting our time trying to resolve things that are beyond our control. Doesn't explain why there are alarms on laptop but not android. 

I shall try the link for the laptop, but maybe not tonight, and not tomorrow, Pilates and a D-Day dinner to go to. But thank you, and customer services have said they'll keep the ticket open for a remote access to the computer, though that won't fix the myTuner issue.

Onward and upward!

Essex Girl

Happy to help! Download the Windows desktop client here …

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/downloads

While the above app has been updated quite recently, it is still on the old codebase and is quite a bit more stable (and functional) than the new mobile apps.

Hello again - I was away last week, talking to real humans. I see Sonos has done nothing to rectify their disaster! I emailed the CEO before I went away and got a list of all the woopy-doo things they propose for the rest of the month but nothing - nothing about the current state of affairs. 

So press250 - you advised the old Sonos 

I was away last week, talking to proper humans in language I understand. The situation is still the same, and an email I sent to the CEO gives me a lot of woopy-doo things they propose for later this month but nothing nothing about the current issue of not being able to access my favourite radio stations, though I can still access BBC through Sounds, and Spotify. Had to turn off the alarms - at least they are still visible on laptop as the one for a Dutch radio station just got the appalling Sonos chime. 

In short press250 where do I find the “Windows desktop client…. on the ‘old’ codebase”? Uninstalling the app on Windows and reinstalling did B all! but I’d be glad of clarification if you’d be so kind.

Best regards,

Essex Girl.

What a mess!

Like many of you, I have 1000s of tracks running off a NAS. I use Amazon music a little, to review an album and if I like it enough I will buy the cd and rip it to the NAS.

Does anyone at Sonos actually read the community posts?

They often talk about how the app is changing, 'thanks to customer feedback'. Do they really do that or just think 'users will really like this, I'm sure'

I'm looking at the Brennan B3,  has anyone used one of their products with Sonos?

Whats the best previous version of Sonos app that supports older Sonos 1 hardware??

What a disaster.  I’ve been with Sonos since the VERY beginning (remember those ipod-like controllers on the wall?), and this app fiasco is the last straw.  I just hope I can make enough money back on my Sonos stock puts to enable a systemic change.

Something tells me there will be a surplus of used Sonos speakers on the market soon, and it won’t be because we’re upgrading to a different Sonos product… we’re abandoning.

In the meantime, I’ve bought the Air Music app, and it works like one would expect (unlike Sonos’ app).  Does anyone know if I’m getting high res audio through that app, or if there’s a way to force that (streaming from Tidal app)?

I was so excited when I saw the post from 907sjl with the link to the old app.  I thought for sure that would solve my problems, and allow me to play my own music again.

But alas, after removing the crap app and installing the previous version, I still can’t access my Music Library (12,000 MP3 files located on my Win10 PC).  The old app no longer lets me browse my own music.  I recall that when the crap app was installed, it said that it was updating my hardware as well.  So apparently the hardware is now ruined as well, and can’t be controlled from the old version of the app.

For now, I have found an alternative that works somewhat for me.  I installed the Hi-Fi Cast app, which can send music to my Sonos speakers. Unfortunately, it couldn’t see the playlists on my PC, so I installed the MinimServer app, which can see my playlists.  So now at least I can listen to my music again. But I do miss having scheduled playlists that the Sonos Alarms feature allowed.

No, the APK is only for android (your tablet).  It’s a bit complicated; read all this before you try.

First, as he said above, need to completely uninstall the current Sonos.  Then...

You need to go to the link above (preferably on the tablet browser) and download the 16.1 APK (probably the arm64-v8a one*).

Once you have the right one downloaded, you need to go to your download folder (using any file explorer app).  Select it and it should start to install.  It will probably force you to go to settings to allow the APK install.

Mind you, I have not done this install yet.  I’m still deciding whether I want to go back to 16.1.

So...If anyone sees anything I have advised wrong or incomplete, please chime in for Essex Girl.

*I had to look up a way to tell which one I needed for my phone, so I searched for it and found a page recommending putting “Droid Hardware Info” app.  But it was no longer there, so I installed “Device Information” from Yalintech, and ran it and went to “CPU” and learned I had the arm64-v8a, not the armeabi-v7a.  So that is the APK I downloaded. Then I uninstalled the Yalintech app.

I’m not sure.  Anyone have an apple phone to check?

For those of you that have line in jacks on your Sonos kit and a spare Echo Dot lying around, wire that to the Sonos line in jacks after setting them to autoplay via the Sonos app. When the Dot is online, you will see it as target option in the Spotify native app on your phone. Select that to get the music to move from the phone to the Dot and thence to whatever speakers are wired to the terminals of the Sonos Port or Amp. You could also wire the Dot to a Sonos 5 unit’s line in jack.

The phone will be out of the music play loop, music will sound as good as your speakers are capable of delivering, and you will not need the Sonos app for music to play, it gets bypassed.

You could also do this via voice command to the Dot. In terms of its streaming capability of services it can play, with Spotify being one, and as to the quality of the analog signal out of its audio out jack, the Dot is as good as any streamer out there, including Sonos.

If you use a Echo Show 5/8 that has the audio out jack, you will also get album art for what is playing.

Yes. That is concerning, i forgot it need that. But it does record everything, and we then just have to hope it will not report back to the mother ship.

Yes. It will capture all sound going to your phones speaker, and send it through the AirPlay protocol.