Compression Settings on Windows

Please see this thread
https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/updates-to-the-desktop-controller-coming-soon-6813300/index1.html

BUT.... when you say you are streaming music from your PC, you presumably mean via a line-in? Because the compression setting only affects the audio through a line-in. But are you playing your music files that way, as well as YouTube audio? If so you are causing yourself unnecessary grief.

I have a local iTunes library of 10,000 songs on my PC that i play rather that Spotify, Amazon etc, via a connect connect to my PC sound card, which is connected to my PC speakers and then the connect is grouped through my sono systems. So it's not unncessary grief...

The compression settings affect everything coming out of the PCs sound card and through the Sonos connect....

You get dropouts and are forced to use compressed setting, when you could play these tracks without using a line in, with its inefficiencies and relative instability. I would describe that as unnecessary grief, but if you are happy that's all good.

And of course it affects everything coming out of the PC sound card, as it is all going through the line in. It's just that 99.9999% of Sonos users with a local library don't play their library that way.

My library it too big to play it through the sonos system, so it HAS to be through the line in. It just doesn't work with libraries that large, believe me I've tried. So, I don't have a choice. Most users don't have a local library as large as that, so therefore they don't have a problem...

Though to be honest, I find the ways of playing the local library through the sonos app clunky at best...

I've been using it this way for 4 years, and it's never been even close to unstable....aside from the dropping out, which the compression fixed...it's been seemless.

You should take a look at the Plex option. It allows for larger libraries. Not sure how it is on clunkiness, I don't use it myself.

The track limit is 65000 and I have a similar size library to you. But we all have our own preferences.

Funilly enough, I just downloaded Plex the other day, for video streaming to my smart TV. I did find it a bit basic, which is fine for video, but I use my music collection differently, with lots of playlists and artwork and etc, so it suits me fine as it is to be honest. If I have to use the app to change the compression settings, it's not the end of the world. Just annoying that thay are taking features out of the desktop version. A bit silly really

4 years ago the track limit must have been much less than that, as I tried to set it up like that when I first got my first sonos and it just wasn't having it. Granted, I haven't bothered to try it since...

Actually, I've just realised that that's 10,000 albums not songs, my songs is 63,254 currently, so I'm dangerously close to that limit anyways...