local music library on my android phone no longer recognized by sonos

Using Bluetooth may be the simplest solution for you.

So basically my sonos is now a dead paper weight unless I buy more of their products.  Go get * Sonos I'm done you theiving bunch of *

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Have tried the bubbleupnp app and although it allows access to my music it doesn't allow the use of all 3 of my speakers at the same time which was the whole point of buying them.

@jpdthunder Bubbleupnp will play to one speaker and then as @Airgetlam suggests you can use the Sonos app to group the playing speaker with other Sonos devices. I have just checked with the free version on my phone.

Did you just like your own post? The use of the word “camouflaged” and “real cause” flag at least some paranoia to me.

I read Samsung Music player still works for Sonos, so if you have a Samsung phone your in luck. Youtube Music is also an option, as is playing music that’s on a PC.

The fundamental design inspiration for SONOS was for the SONOS players to play music without involving a computer. In 2005 phones/pads were not as developed as they are now. In 2005 there was a dedicated SONOS controller. As phones/pads developed, SONOS users resented being forced to purchase a SONOS controller, when they felt that their phone/pad could provide this capability for “free”. Keeping with the original design concept, the phone/pad SONOS controller did not play music, it sent commands to SONOS. In the early days of SONOS, storage, processor capability, and wireless connectivity were so limited that it was not practical to store and play large libraries of high quality music from a phone/pad. SONOS players and music storage on a computer or NAS drive was one of the few practical means of playing high quality music from a large home library. Comprehensive music services, such as Spotify were a glimmer.

As phones/pads started integrating music players, SONOS had to resort to a series of hacks in order to provide control features, such as Lock Screen, that native phone/pad Apps offered. Android has traditionally welcomed hacks, Apple discourages hacks. Eventually, Android manufacturers and Apple decided to monetize music and SONOS is not in their plan. Plus, SONOS has a large patent portfolio that allows SONOS to seamlessly support a large collection of players. SONOS makes this seem easy, but it is not — unless you license the SONOS patents. At this point it’s not a big deal for a phone/pad to support a couple speakers, but it is a big deal to support a couple dozen simultaneous players, each playing different music. This is where SONOS has an advantage.

The bottom line is that the hacks SONOS had been using for the Lock Screen controls are no longer practical.

Personally, I don’t want my computer/phone/pad directly involved in playing music. As I work on a software project, the computer/phone/pad might crash or need to be rebooted while my SONOS music continues uninterrupted. I never used the Lock Screen controls until this discussion started and I have kicked the tires in order to better understand the issue. For me the Lock Screen controls as currently implemented in native Android and Apple phone/pad App’s are useless. These controls might be slightly more attractive if I listened in only one room, but they don’t integrate well with a phone call.