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Is Sonos App a fancy volume control when it comes to listening to music on local library?

  • January 23, 2025
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the answer seems to be yes.

if i want to stream its cool but what about all the music I have on my library. I have to play on desktop and hit airplay and then the app is only a volume control LOL

ive tried so many times and all the instruction online do not work for loading my library to sonos.

 

question is why have an add library funtion on the app iof it doesnt work.

 

beyond frustrated.

Best answer by WoahMahn

support team was able to fix the problem.

when adding my path info into the sonos App the examples listed “shared” between the path and the folder. (see screenshot)

the support team did not put that between and i worked. not sure why its listed like that in the example but it sure would have saved me some head ache.

 

Glad its up and now

 

 

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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • January 23, 2025

 

ive tried so many times and all the instruction online do not work for loading my library to sonos.

 

question is why have an add library funtion on the app iof it doesnt work.

 

It does work, so there’s something not right. 
 

How are you doing it? From app or Pc? What happens? What error message do you get? 


bockersjv
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  • Local Superstar
  • January 23, 2025

And have you tried calling the support team?

I have a Synology NAS and it took a few steps plus I had to add Sonos as a User on my synology with it’s own password that would allow access to my music library on my NAS drive.

Once done it works well but navigating categories has been diminished in the new app with the loss of an A-Z slider.  


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  • January 25, 2025

support team was able to fix the problem.

when adding my path info into the sonos App the examples listed “shared” between the path and the folder. (see screenshot)

the support team did not put that between and i worked. not sure why its listed like that in the example but it sure would have saved me some head ache.

 

Glad its up and now

 

 


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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • January 25, 2025

Looking at that, it would indeed have helped if they used two very different paths in their examples, but they were shown as examples to show how you should give the path to your music. 
 

Glad all is now sorted.