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unable to see Sonos devices when using Airplay

Here’s some things suggested by Apple/Sonos users to maybe try next time your Speaker(s) do not show (or play) as available in the AirPlay c...
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recommend NAS drive to play cd’s through sonos

I need to replace my NAS drive used to play my CD’s over my Sonos. Need a bit of expert advice on best makes/models compatible with Sonos? T...
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How can you create internet radio streams now that TuneIn is no longer...

Hi @Dan187856 Welcome to the Sonos Community!I have the following information to share with you:Customers who already have manually added st...
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erictstahlContributor I
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A note of protest being stuck on the S1 controller

I’m sure this has been posted many times, but I just want to voice my frustration that after being such a loyal customer, investing so much money in a house-wide system and most recently buying a Roam that won’t work with my S1 controller, Sonos completely sucks for leaving its older products behind and cutting us off from buying new products.  Major thumbs down.  I’ll be sure to warn others on this on Amazon reviews, etc.

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Bhuna OverlordContributor I
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Song not encoded correctly after Spatial update

Since the update for spatial audio was released the not encoded error is happening most of the time. This only happens when using Apple Music via the Sonos app and is not just limited to the Era 300s.  Tracks that have been uploaded using the iTunes Match service display the error but other songs won’t play either despite everything being fine before.  I can get around this playing via Airplay or deleting the tracks from my library and adding them again from Apple Music. This isn’t an ideal fix though as I have lots of music that isn’t available on Apple Music. I also have 100s of playlists and I can’t do this to every one.  I’ve tried all the troubleshooting tips that I’ve read and nothing has worked.  This is obviously an error caused by the new spatial audio music update; Apple and Sonos need to get together to fix this because it’s ruining the Sonos experience. 

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LegalManContributor I
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Problem when i play the first song on a device

Hi!  I got a problem since maybe the day I owned the Sonos device but I didn’t pay it much attention but as it kept repeating, I’d like to ding an answer. i got a Sonos Beam coupled with 2 Ones for the TV, a One in the kitchen, and one Move.  When i connect to one of these speaker for the first  song with Spotify, it always start the song in the middle of it, although on my iPhone, the song on the Spotify app appears to be at the beginning if I refer to the timing showed on the app. When I click to rewind the song, it starts again the song and this time there’s no problem. I saw also a problem when watching a movie and putting the audio on beam/2 ones and the One on the kitchen (which is very close, about 6/7 meters), the audio briefly disconnect for a second each minute. Any help on these issues?  Thanks

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Corry P
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Monica PContributor I
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sonos plays one track only and not the entire album

Recently my sonos plays one track only and not the entire album as before. Any idea how to fix this?Thx

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1 year ago
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IJDContributor I
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Playing music from local library controlled using Sonos app on Android

I’ve managed to get my music library (USB stick plugged into router) imported into and playable in Sonos (Beam Gen 2), and when using a laptop this is just about OK -- though there doesn’t seem to be any way to do a shuffle play of the entire library or subdirectories within it, unlike every other player I’ve used at home and in the car -- is there a way to do this or am I missing something?However there’s no way to do this using the Android app which would be my normal method of controlling the system, it seems it can only use playlists. I suppose I could generate a playlist of the entire library (or parts of it) on the laptop, but I suspect the Sonos might choke on a playlist with >10000 tracks in -- and also I can only see how to add tracks to a playlist one at a time, is there a way to add multiple tracks or entire albums in one go?It seems that Sonos is completely focused on streaming and mostly ignoring customers who want to play their own music -- in my case built up over man

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jsimmyContributor I
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Crossfade skips every other song (20 secs) when using Spotify

Crossfade feature on Sonos when streaming Spotify works on every other song. It will play one song, crossfade correctly, then play the next song for 20 seconds and skip to the next song. That song will play in its entirety and crossfade correctly then skip the next song after about 20 seconds. I see this topic has been posted many times before with no resolution. Any help???I use Sonos quite a bit and this feature helps the mood for events. I will need to switch to other services if this persist. Thanks!

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Stuart_W
Stuart_WWorld-Class Superstar
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Mac Sonos Controller Fails to Install S2

For several months now if I try to update the Sonos controller when prompted by the Max controller after I’ve entered my Mac password and the install downloads it fails. I have to manually remove and re-install from the web. Not a big deal but wanted to mention it so the developers may see

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Corry P
1 year ago
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Eric VLContributor I
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Integration of personal music into Sonos

How can I integrate my personal Apple Music and preferred radio stations into my Sonos app?

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1 year ago
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GiddosContributor I
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"My Radio Stations" functionality not available in new TuneIn service?

I have a custom mp3 stream added & working fine in the old TuneIn service, I can’t see a way to add it in the new TuneIn?I’m concerned support for the old plugin will be dropped.Ideally there’d be a way outside TuneIn to add custom mp3 streams. 

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1 year ago
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BichonContributor I
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Connect S1 : "Product not found"

I try to configure a 2d hand Connect S1.I Have already reinit the Connect by pressing “audio” while connecting to power.But I still receive “Product not found” message.

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controlav
1 year ago
hobaSound
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Is there any way to add music from Sonos to my Apple Music library?

Hello all!With the recent addition of my Era 300s and Arc I find myself using the Sonos app more and more to play music from Music so I can take advantage of the Atmos encoding. The downside to using the Sonos app rather than normal Airplay is that I cannot seem to add songs that I like from Sonos to my Music library. Obviously I can add the music to Sonos-related libraries and playlists but it sure would be nice to be able to add new music I hear to my Music library. Any thoughts?

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bahnenContributor I
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file can't be found or connection to music library lost

The music library is a local drive on my computer, both my computer and the sonos unit are cabled to the LAN. there is no problem indexing and i can find the files in the sonos app file explorer and add to queue.some files, seemingly at random, will stop after playing 2 sec the log shows either that sonos could not find the file or connection to the library was lost.If i go back to the file in question it will repeat the error, however.. if i am fast enough and skip ahead in the track it will continue to play without stopping. If i empty the queue and refill it with the same pool of tracks, it will be some new random songs that cant be accessed and the previous ones might play fine now.Other times, it will stop before a song ends, same errors in the logs.I do not have these problems when playing the tracks in something like musicbee on my computer. This is really really annoying.This happens with the app in windows, i am not 100% but i dont think i have the same problem when using app

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ChambraContributor I
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connect B&O 3200 to Sonos Port

I have B&O3200 (but no speakers) and want to connect to Sonos Port, not yet purchased, so I can play throughout house…is this possible and, if so, the B&O has separate 8-pin dins for L&R speakers but Sonos Port only has one RCA input?  HELP!

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1 year ago
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Guillaume4077Contributor II
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apple music Lossless

Bonjour, la prise en charge d’Apple Music Lossless est-elle prévue dans l’application Sonos S2 svp?merci d’avance pour votre réponse 

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oestranxeiroContributor I
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Dolby Atmos on Era 300 with Tidal

I ordered Era 300 speakers and I am really impressed with the sound, but frankly I am a bit disappointed that Dolby Atmos support is limited to Amazon Music and Apple Music.I use primarily Tidal and would really like to be able to listen to the mixes available in their library. Why is this imposible? Is there any plan to include Tidal as a supported platform?Thanks in advance for the responses!

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MichnardContributor I
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Canadian having trouble with CBC Radio via Tunein

Canadian user here having issues listening to CBC radio1 through TuneIn radio. It has become incredible annoying to try to listen to the radio through TuneIn over the past few weeks as every few minutes the program cuts out to hear the”tunein theme”, and then tunein ad after tunein ad. This is a new problem, and is driving me crazy. I have updated all apps and operating systems. This issue DOES NOT HAPPEN on other Tunein Radio channels.Does anyone have any advice? Please. 

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DjCitoContributor I
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Tidal songs freezing

I am trying to stream my Tidal Playlist on Sonos S1 App and from time to time different streaming services have the same issue, they freeze seconds into the song playing. Usually i reauthorize the service and it fix itself. Recently this has no been working, I’ve tried it all, disconnecting the device from power and Wi-Fi, deleting streaming service from Sonos, restarting tablet, reauthorizing the tidal. But nothing this time around, any suggestions or solutions?

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Corry P
1 year ago
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Don SContributor I
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Downgrade from 15.2 to 15.1

Recently upgraded to Sonos 15.2 from 15.1.  The new version won’t work on my old Mac.  How can I revert back to 15.1?  That is the last version that will work with my old Mac.

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NlamanContributor I
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spotify, audible and amazon music connection issues

All Of a sudden I cannot connect to any of my 3rd party streaming services like Spotify or Amazon music through Sonos. “Connection is lost” or cannot add to queue. the spotify app works and I can then add the music to the  Sonos speakers that way. Alexa voice controls have also stopped working on Sonos products where they are built in.

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Harris in VAContributor I
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Sonos Streaming horrible with Sirius XM and Spotify

I’m re-introducing this topic because it has been brought up before and after all this time, Sonos seems to have failed to do anything about it.   Both Sirius XM and Spotify drop very regularly, at least twice per hour if not more.  With both I get the error message “Unable to connect . . .” and with Sirius XM I also get the message about not being able to play because of some “encoding” issue. I have gigabit Internet coming to my home and all my Sonos speakers are connected via 3 Sonos AMP’s which are connected via Ethernet cable, so WiFi is not even involved.Any ideas?  Also, with all the complaints, why hasn’t Sonos addressed this issue being experienced by so many customers?

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Pickles150Contributor I
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Sonos 2 won't connect to NAS Drive since this mornings Update

Yesterday everything was working fine.This morning I had Updates on both Sonos 1 and Sonos 2 - I run old and new products separately.Sonos 1 finds NAS drive OK and let’s me update the list.My NAD 10 streaming tuner using BluOS finds and updates listings OK.Sonos 2 will not show any connection to NAS drive.I can hear that it is accessing the drive from the crunching noises it makes, but it won’t show the Drive on the System under Music Library.Passwords are correct, path is correct, connections are correct.I believe this is a software issue following this morning’s update.Anyone else had problems? p.s.  I’ve tried using both the app and my laptop - Nothing        I’ve tried using text path and numeric path - Nothing

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pilotbumTrending Lyricist I
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Why is there no re-boot option in the app?

This has been an ongoing but seemingly ignored request by Sonos, but why is there no reboot option from the app?I have a regrettable $6,000+ Sonos system that is awful. It cuts out all the time and with every phone call to tech support I’m given a list of excuses why they’re cutting out and ultimately I think it’s their software. On the most recent phone call I was told one of the zones that was presently playing did not exist. Anyway, in addition, with each tech support call I am told to reboot all of my Sonos devices. The only way to do this is to physically unplug them and plug them back in. OR, they can do it for you remotely. I have 11 Sonos products. So unplug them and plug them all back in is a PITA. One of them requires I move my refrigerator. Another requires I climb up into my attic. Another requires I move my entertainment center and television.For a company that sells accessories specifically with aesthetics in mind so a person may conceal the wires, they sure make using th

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Mr.JKContributor I
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problem with android app

Since I upgraded my Android device 18. Mars, I have not been abel to upgrade my sonos app. I have also tried to delete the app and download it againg. But now I can not download the app fra Google play store. What have I missed/forgotten?  

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NeilLContributor II
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Is the 15.3 S2 Controller app update available for MacOS?

I see that the latest Controller app for MacOS is 15.3.  The download page gives me 15.2.  Is the updated controller available for download?

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Airgetlam
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Hilmur13Contributor I
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RTE Stopped working via sonos app. Works fine via Alexa on Sonos 1

RTE Stopped working via sonos app. Works fine via Alexa on Sonos 1 

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