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is there really no way to play jellyfin music on sonos?

  • May 16, 2026
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If anyone has sonos playing their jellyfin music please share how.  Jellyfin is so awesome i find it almost impossible to believe there is no solution.  I must be missing something big.  But after hours of reading around and looking at ports and multicasting and reading about dlna and upnp i feel lost.  

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jellyfin running on truenas scale with port 1900/udp open.  i see nothing in the sonos app about jellyfin or dlna or upnp.  i’m tempted to create a smb share to try to share the files directly??  ​@RenegadeAndy did you ever work anything out?

Best answer by kdowling

Sonos requires SMB v2 or v3. The older S1 system only works with SMBv1.

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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Grand Maestro
  • May 16, 2026

SMB works well, a lot of us users it.

No idea what jellyfin is and not going to bother searching to find out.

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    • Prodigy I
    • May 17, 2026

    I used Plex for my media a while back, but now I find it much simpler to just use the Sonos app to play audio files from my local library and Infuse for video on my Apple TV. All files are stored on a Synology NAS with a SMB share.

    I realize there are many users who prefer to cast from an app to Sonos, but all the services I use work really well from within the Sonos app.

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      • norm13
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      • May 17, 2026

      Hi thanks for your replies.  I’m glad to hear smb is working well.  i’ll have to give it a try later today.  I thought i read at some point yesterday that sonos stopped supporting smb shares but im definitely glad to hear thats not the case.

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      • kdowling
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      • May 17, 2026

      Sonos requires SMB v2 or v3. The older S1 system only works with SMBv1.

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        • norm13
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        • May 17, 2026

        i’m psyched and happy to say im listening to elastica playing on my sonos system in multiple rooms from my smb share on my nas.  what a relief.  not what i expected reading files direct when i have a music service locally but it doesn’t matter much.  its playing. :))  it took a few tries to get the path format right but its going!!!

        my first sonos speaker 10 years ago or so marked the beginning of my audiophileness.  setting up this nas and ripping all my old cds is just a new level.  really really nice.  rediscovering old albums has been great.  elastica is a great example.

        in case it helps others… 

        • created a smb share in truenas scale using the default settings
        • added the shared folder in sonos app
          • //hostname/smbsharename 
          • the same share on my win11 machine is \\hostname\smbsharename
          • used the u/p of the directory owner
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