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How to use Sonos in homekit

@BretonMaitre There are still some issues with HomeKit but if you Airplay to a Sonos speaker registered as an accessory in the Home App and...
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xyzzy01Trending Lyricist I
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NTLMv2 support

Is there any progress on adding NTLM v2 support to Sonos?NTLMv1 has been obsolete (and recommended to be turned off) for many years now due to security concerns. After upgrading my Synology NAS to DSM 7, shared folders no longer work as NTLM v1 has been removed.

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Airgetlam
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Dgwood2Contributor I
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Unable to add Spotify tracks to Port queue

I have two One SLs and a Port.  Using the Sonos app, I can add and play tracks on the SLs.  If I try and play an album on the Port, I get “unable to add songs to queue” and if I try to play an individual track, I get error 701.  I can play Spotify on the Port if I play one of the SLs and link the Port to it.  I can also play through the Port using the Spotify app and air playing from there.  I have rebooted the Port a couple of times but it still won’t play.  There isn’t a general connection issue, otherwise the SLs and linking across wouldn’t work either.  How can I get the Port playing Spotify again?

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ratty
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The chefAvid Contributor I
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Missing Speakers since update

Hi,I ran a Sonos update yesterday - which updated my Sonos speakers and iPhone/iPad app.  Since then, my two Sonos Amp (newest Gen) are not visible in the app.  My Play:1s remain active and working.  The both amps have a solid white status light - as though they’re connected to something.I’ve tried resetting both.  They appear in the App until I try to play music - after which, music fails to play and the zone is no longer available though the app.  Anyone else seen similar?  I’ve used Sonos for years and never seen such an issue.  I don’t believe the unit(s) are faulty.  That would be very unlucky for both to go at exactly the same time.  

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Airgetlam
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Ben BairdContributor I
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My vehicles Android auto does not connect to Spotify or Tidal after the device has played via Sonos system in the home.

Any others experience this issue and are there any solutions?In the case of Spotify, I have to reboot the phone and car. In the case of Tidal, I use Sonos app to deselect all Tidal selections (the Tidal app will not respond to this request once Sonos and  Tidal are linked).The Phone is a Nokia 7.1 running Android 10. The car is Ford ranger with Sync3. 

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MDN2020Trending Lyricist I
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Sonos S1 has suddenly lost my music "The computer [name] cannot be found" whilst in use

Out of the blue my Sonos S1 controller has lost my music.Nothing changed, the computer hadn’t been changed in any way, no settings changed, no software installed, I simply chose a different album to play and it’s all gone.I tried adding the music folders again and still get the “computer cannot be found” error despite it being the computer that’s running the Sonos app!I’ve had a look on the forum and there’s lots about people making changes then losing their music but I haven’t found one like mine where nothing changed, it was running then it simply lost everything.I uninstalled and reinstalled the Sonos S1 app, rebooted the router and the Sonos Bridge, checked the firewall settings before I uninstalled it and it set the firewall settings again for the fresh install so I know that’s not the problem.Windows 10 hasn’t updated, so I can see no reason at all for this to have happened.I’d appreciate any help I can get with this before I chuck the lot on eBay and get blue tooth speakers inst

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Corry P
3 years ago
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chip.manContributor I
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Music Indexing doesn't update my library

I have a music library stored on my NAS with approximately 1500 albums (so it's not huge by most standards).Only a portion of it has been indexed correctly by the initial execution of the indexing via Sonos app. No matter how many times I re-run the process via the Apps on Windows PC, android phone & iphone, nothing changes once the fresh indexing process has finished.An example of how this is behaving is:I have a folder named A Perfect Circle in my shared Music folder. It has 4 sub-folders (1 for each album by that artist) 2 of the 4 albums have been indexed 1 of the 2 indexed albums only lists from track 3 onward and doesn't recognize or list tracks 1 or 2 in the sonos app on any platform. By comparison, I can browse to each of the folders and list all tracks and play them using other apps such as Roon, windows media player etc. without issue.Re-scanning my music library yields no changes to available albums / songs, though shows via the apps it is apparently working.What is goin

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Kwik-E-MartContributor III
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Sonos keeps losing tracks from my Itunes library

HiA couple of days ago I noticed that the queue in Sonos was saying I only had about 9500 tracks when there should be about 12500.  I’ve had a look through and whole albums that used to be in there and played absolutely fine are no longer showing - they’ve just disappeared although they’re still in Itunes?  I’ve uninstalled my Library from Sonos and added it again and now I’ve lost even more, about another 200 tracks????  I have a Windows laptop and the library is on my C Drive - no changes have been made to it.  I’m absolutely baffled, any advice would be gratefully accepted as this is driving me mad. 

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James L.
3 years ago
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timothypContributor II
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so tired of sonos wifi

Issues with newer wifi modems/routers are a neverending source of frustration.I have a wifi 6 fiber modem/router that automagically switches from 5ghz to 2.4ghz depending on distance, which is great for anything but Sonos, so I had to setup an additional network just for that.(and no, there’s no option to set up a different access point just for 2.4)This is painful because in my office I have to use the 2.4ghz network, which is slower, in order to use Sonos app on my PC to connect to the Play 1’s.Also, to control other Sonos components (Play 5’s, Sub, Move), my phone has to be on the separate 2.4 network.So, I bought a Boost, thinking Sonosnet would solve all my problems, but no… the Move won’t work with Sonosnet (I discovered after purchasing it).  So… I have to continue with the separate 2.4ghz network.At the very least, the Boost should prominently note in the description that it does NOT work with Move.The Sonos page for Boost even displays the Move directly underneath!https://www.

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buzz
3 years ago
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HucapContributor I
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Why can't I search Sonos Radio in the Sonos app?

I have the latest version of the Sonos app for android installed on my phone (Galaxy A12) I have 8 Synfonisks devices attached to the app and they are all working fine. I am paying for Sonos radio and it is in my app by default. When I click on the magnifying glass and search for an artist or album, podcast etc. in the correct section of search It gives me the:No results found in Artists. There are no services set up in your Sonos system. Please add a service to search for content.My phone and all the devices are on the same wifi network and all have access to the internet.I have reauthorized the Sonos radio app and have restarted everything thing and this problem persists.All of the Sonos devices update to whatever the latest firmware is when I fist started them up this week.I click into the Sonos radio hd part of the app I see all the different sections with different music collections there is no where to search except for the magnifying glass at the bottom of the app. When I click

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Airgetlam
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PoullContributor I
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Spotify skips to next song or stops playing, other sources work just fine meanwhile

The past couple of months when playing music from Spotify on any of the sonos speakers the music skips to the next song or stops playing at random points. It can be after 2 songs or half a day. The controller reports connection to spotify lost. Sometimes i can immediately click play again and it starts over but sometimes it takes 1-10 min before i can resume. Meanwhile i can play from other sources just fine so it seems like a Spotify specific issue. If i try to play using spotify connect then as i select the speaker, it changes it back to the previous target.

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Corry P
3 years ago
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EelkeContributor I
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Special characters in filename suddenly don't play on some players

Hi all, I have a system made up of several PLAY:3s, PLAY1s and One SLs, connected to a NAS.Some of the songs/albums on it have special characters (like é, á, etc) that have started not to play (Unable to play “...”  the file …. cannot be found). It seems to be the PLAY:1s that are not able to find these, although the certainly did in the past. Some of these have also reverted to a filename in Sonos Playlists.I assume it’s been an update triggering this, but would like to know if others suffer and how to resolve it. I really want to avoid renaming them due to the sheer number of songs/albums with special characters. Thanks, Eelke

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Corry P
3 years ago
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Morpheus5150Contributor I
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Plex playlist and Sonos

I have a Plex playlist marked as a favorite in Sonos.  It plays the songs and works fine.  The problem is when I add a new song to the playlist in plex, the playlist favorite is not longer valid in the sonos favorite.  I have to remove from favorites and then re add it.  Any ideas why this is not refreshing or whatever?

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Corry P
3 years ago
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SherderContributor I
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missing playlists

I bought a new iMac in June. Ever since, I am unable to import my playlists from Music (formerly know as iTunes/Not Apple Music streaming) into Sonos. I’ve read many articles and had several calls to both Apple and Sonos, and still have the same problem 3 months later. Has anyone had a similar issue and have you found a way to successfully resolve it? Thanks in advance for any help.

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Airgetlam
3 years ago