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New SONOS App has removed Windows music library and won't let me re-add it!


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  • Contributor II
  • 8 replies
  • June 24, 2024

Just updated the app and still get error code 913. My understanding was this would be resolved by mid-June. What is the status? 


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  • 200 replies
  • June 24, 2024
PabloUK wrote:
osm wrote:

The support article on adding local library has been updated: https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/add-your-music-library-to-sonos

Now includes instructions on creating network shares for Windows and Mac folders and then adding these to Sonos system using the networked device option. Prior references to adding Windows/Mac folders using the "my music folder" and "another folder or drive" options have been removed. It seems to me anyone with music on Win/Mac computers who were waiting for those old broken options to be fixed should really stop waiting and move to the now-documented user-created network shares method.

thanks tried this but still get the same 913 error message

 

In this case I would suggest contacting Sonos support and let them know you are still getting an error even after following the new support documentation involving creating and adding a network share.

Any chance you (or anyone) could post a screenshot of the 913 error? I see several people mention it but I’ve never seen it myself.


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  • Trending Lyricist I
  • 15 replies
  • June 24, 2024

Windows 11.  Hope this helps.  It’s what I did following the instructional link to access music on my external drive:

Click “Share.”

It’s the “Network Path” you need - \\LENOVO-RICH\Music   -  Copy it.

It’s will be different on your computer.

 

This what “Advanced Sharing” looks like on my computer:

 

Open Sonos app and go to:  Manage/Music Library/Add

Enter the “Network Path.”  My computer was -  \\LENOVO-RICH\Music

Then click on “Browse” and go to where you music is stored on your hard drive.

Let me know if I left any steps out.


  • Lyricist III
  • 6 replies
  • July 2, 2024

The problem I am having is that it now (as I reported elsewhere) is that the sonos system loses the share every night when it does its scan of the library. I can add the share, it indexes the files, the library appears in the app, music plays.  Next morning the share is missing from the desktop app and mobile app.  And the share cannot be added via the Android app at all now (confirmed with Sonos).  This is definitely not working as it should on Windows / Android...


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  • Trending Lyricist I
  • 15 replies
  • July 2, 2024

AnonUserCA, On Shared Permissions, does it look like the one above?


  • Lyricist III
  • 6 replies
  • July 2, 2024

The permissions are perfect and SMB1 has also been deprecated on the NAS as well recently. Waiting until next scheduled rescan to see what happens this time...


  • Lyricist III
  • 6 replies
  • July 3, 2024

Update - The share has now lasted 36 hours. The NAS has SMB1 fully deprecated (Min = SMB2), so that may have been the issue, not sure, but it was the only change I made, why the Sonos system would care if SMB1 is there or not is unknown.  For now the share is still in the Sonos app so that good, but the handling of this by Sonos has not been good.  Shouldn’t have to do this much digging!


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  • 200 replies
  • July 3, 2024
AnonUserCA wrote:

Update - The share has now lasted 36 hours. The NAS has SMB1 fully deprecated (Min = SMB2), so that may have been the issue, not sure, but it was the only change I made, why the Sonos system would care if SMB1 is there or not is unknown.  For now the share is still in the Sonos app so that good, but the handling of this by Sonos has not been good.  Shouldn’t have to do this much digging!

To clarify: Are you saying when when the autoupdater was triggering the library connection to break the NAS was configured to use min SMB = 1 and max SMB = 2 or 3. Then when you changed min SMB to 2 the autoupdater seems to be working ok (no longer triggering connection to break)?

If yes, I have seen one or two others mention the same.


  • Lyricist III
  • 6 replies
  • July 3, 2024

Yes, that's what I believe...


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  • Enthusiast II
  • 25 replies
  • July 16, 2024

Two MONTHS since we lost functionality for our music on a Mac. The last software update is two weeks old and we still do not have a fix to be able to play OUR OWN MUSC. I could call Sonos tech incompetent, but it would be an insult to the incompetent software developers out there.


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  • Enthusiast II
  • 32 replies
  • July 22, 2024

Having decided to sit out the lack of access to my music library (for almost three months), I hoped that the latest update of today would allow the reinstatement what had been removed. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

I still have no access to it from a Windows pc or an Android phone, despite having followed all of the instructions many times. It could be that I do not have the necessary technical  knowledge (although I got both working with no trouble originally, until the May update) but I certainly do not have an unlimited amount of time or patience to continue trying to get what is suppose to be a piece of consumer (not IT expert) electronics to function as promised.

Additionally, as of today's update the Android app constantly crashes. Oh, and the Sonos helpline does not operate within the stated hours either. Perhaps I misunderstand, but I have always felt that products like this are bought to fit into your life, not to make you fit  your life around them.


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