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Music Library on Shared Drives

  • January 3, 2026
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I’ve been using a shared drive on Windows 11 for quite a while. The setup for Sonos has always been hinky but it mostly worked. Recently, I have had a bunch of problems crop up more frequently. 913 errors every couple of days, having to reboot and reshare… I’ve tried a handful of things with no luck.

Today’s issue relates to streaming a 20 minute song from the shared drive. Multiple times it has stopped mid-song with the error:

Saturday, January 3, 2026 - 10:34 AM Central Time
Unable to play 'XXX' - the connection to //YYY/Music was lost.

Any fixes for this?

3 replies

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • January 3, 2026

I can't fix Windows, gave up, got an inexpensive NAS Network Attached Storage box and ended my frustration.

Couple hundred dollars for a decent single drive unit. Amazon and a bunch of other places sell them.

At this point Sonos should consider taking a NAS  partner, like Sonance for speakers, and offering a pre-configured unit.

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  • mborella
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  • Producer I
  • January 3, 2026

Can you recommend a make and model? Before I lose my mind? :)

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  • mborella
  • Author
  • Producer I
  • January 3, 2026

Preferably working with Plex.

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • January 3, 2026

Others have discussed that, I don't use Plex.

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=site%3Aen.community.sonos.com+nas+plex&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english

 

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