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I had a party yesterday with my Sonos System...

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April 16, 2022
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I had a birthday party at my house yesterday.

During the evening people asked me to put on music that was not in my free services choices. (You have to pay to listen to quality music on Sonos), so instead of subscribing again and again I decided to go to my computer and transfer all my music to folders on my smart phone (android galaxy s20 updated).

This is where the problem comes in... I open my Sonos app (because nothing works without it) and... it can't even find my music files.

Imagine that Sonos lists everything according to its taste and in its own way, so that it is impossible to find each other.

So I have 2 choices left according to Sonos APP, either press SONGS FOLDER and everything will play pell-mell or select manualy each song after the other on the thousands of useless folders that Sonos has created for me.

I tested on the SONOS PC version and everything works fine but not on the mobile app. But it was too late...(See screenshot) https://ibb.co/CQzrZDF

Here is the only way I found to work around this problem: I have to import my music folders from my computer and then I can access my personal music folders by going to the mobile app - Music Library - folders .If I want to find my folders transfered in the mobile apps (from this mobile device) NO folders are displayed.

If the SONOS programmers would offer us the ability to cast our PERSONAL music DIRECTLY from an SMART application like VLC PLAYER (like Google and others do) well, that would save us a lot of headaches. But no, it seems too complicated, why make it simple when you can make it complicated. Perhaps to encourage people to subscribe to paid services?

So needless to say that once again, it was Amazon Music app that saved the evening. I can tell you that to have a successful evening with Sonos equipment is quite an achievement!

What a shame.

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John B

Happy Easter to you too.

The Music folder needs to be directly in the root directory. (although that should be the case automatically).

In the APPs section of your Android device settings, does Sonos have Storage permission?

Ken_Griffiths

@Thewizard2000,

Well anyone who perhaps may have seen my past posts in the community here, will likely notice I almost always use iPhone/iPad to control my Sonos devices, but thought I would just dig out an old Android tablet from storage and charge it up to see if the copying of music folders onto the device would work for me. I first had to install the latest Sonos App on the tablet.

I then opted to install the ‘FE File Explorer’ App on the device and setup a network link to a Windows 10 PC, rather than cable the tablet to the PC. Using FE I copied some music folders from the PC to the Android storage over the local network.

I then opened the Sonos App and went to the services tab, scrolled to ‘On this Mobile Device’ and the music folders appeared instantly... so it definitely works by following the instructions that the Sonos support document provides. It’s not exactly ‘rocket science’ to sort these things. Here’s a screenshot from the tablet taken a short time ago…

It’s definitely not difficult to do these things, but in my own case, I would sort the music and playlists long before any party was due to start anyway.

… and just to add, I hardly ever use the Android operating system, or the tablet for that matter. So if I am able to sort this, I think anyone familiar with how Android works, should be able to sort this.

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