I have an old Sonos system which plays my music library stored on a Buffalo NAS. I have recently purchased a new Assustor NAS and wish to transfer the music library from the Buffalo to the Assustor. I intended to back up the Buffalo to cloud storage and then restore it to the Assustor, however I cannot find the music library on the Buffalo. In the Sonos app it is listed as being at //Hs-dhgled4/Music but I cannot see this in the Windows file manager (I have turned on “show hidden files and I can see my photo folders). Can anyone help me please?
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Transferring music library to a new NAS
Best answer by Stanley_4
Saw in your profile you have a Gen 1 Play 5, make sure to set your new NAS up to provide SMB v1 if you are using the S1 Sonos Controller.
https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/use-a-nas-drive-with-sonos
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I’d call Buffalo CS and ask them, since it isn’t stored by Sonos at all. Sonos merely points to where it is stored by you/other applications.
Unfortunately, I retired my Buffalo device years and years ago, I don’t recall where they stored the data, but I’d certainly be looking for that folder named ‘Music’ , under the assumption that your Buffalo device is named Hs-dhgled4. It is an odd name, certainly, I’m wondering if it never got stored on the Buffalo, and is actually still on a computer named Hs-dhgled4. Which might be why you can’t find it on the Buffalo….
Saw in your profile you have a Gen 1 Play 5, make sure to set your new NAS up to provide SMB v1 if you are using the S1 Sonos Controller.
https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/use-a-nas-drive-with-sonos
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