Controllers & Music Services

I have Sonos 1,3 and 5 setup in my house and I use the new Sonos app.I have over 200gb of my own music, most are in .Flac files. How do others access their own music collection? I've tried copying onto a microsd card , inserting that into my mobile device, clicking on This Mobile Device option , didn't work. I could go down the NAS or my cloud mobile route but this is expensive. Currently have the data on my laptop and on an external 1tb HDD drive. How can I access via my mobile device and play through my Sonos speakers? It's a pain firing up my laptop each time I want to listen to something from my collection.Thanks for any help

I’ve owned few Sonos speakers for a while now but I have never done Trueplay since there are no IOS devices in the household. I’m in the market for a new tablet and was wondering whether Trueplay results with the iPad 7th gen are good or not? I’ve read that some people have found the tuning to be worse with newer iPhones than some of the older models. I really want to find out how my system sounds with Trueplay since the normal EQ is very simplistic. Trueplay for current gen iPads and iPhones might be months away, right? The older model would suit my needs just fine and they are cheaper but if the tuning is not good then I might not bother with an older model. Any experiences?

Is there any way to use or add AccuRadio as a Sonos alarm, for example? My Sonos alarm choices only show a few station choices and no way that I can see to add my own preferred stations. Thanks

It’ll be great to have -/+ volume control within the Sonos app.By that I mean a minus (-) and a plus (+) next to or around the volume slider. I know the hardware buttons on my device can offer this, though, for accessibility something within the Sonos app software will also be useful.  

I currently have a SONOS Connect and 2 SONOS ONES that I run on my SONOS  S1 APP (along with an old wired system).   Can I add a SONOS Move to the  SONOS S1 APP?

I sometimes receive the message ‘Unable to browse music’ . I sometimes receive the message ‘Unable to add tracks to queue’. In each case I have no idea why this would be. With some albums, tracks, folders it works, with others it doesn’t. there is no obvious reason. It is frustrating but, more importantly, for SONOS, has discouraged my friends from investing and discouraged me from buying any more SONOS products Is there any way to contact SONOS, share my desktop and try to work it out?

Hi Everyone,I have an CR200 controller that worked perfectly until I recently split my system into an S1 and S2. I needed to split it because I bought a gen 3 sub and wanted to continue to use the CR200 and a Gen1 Play 5. After the split the controller, which is obviously on the S1 system, does everything it should except allow me to search for music. It will allow me to access the playlists, recommendations etc on each music service but not search them. I use Amazon Music and Tidal. I can not search on either music service. I have tried resetting the controller. Would anyone kindly be able to offer any suggestions on how I could fix this? Thank you

A few years ago, I bought two PLAY5 (GEN1) speakers along with a Playbar, a SUB and three PLAY3 speakers. I have since added a Sonos Beam to my collection.Having now found out that my PLAY5 speakers are not compatible with the latest Sonos Apps and my only option to using the latest Sonos Apps (on my PC and phone) is to replace the PLAY 5 speakers, albeit with a 30% discount, I am not thrilled that having invested in Sonos most expensive speakers a few years ago and committing to develop my Sonos collection, my PLAY5 speakers are now essentially obsolete.I decided that for now, I am not going to take up the costly option of buying 2 new PLAY5 speakers (even with the 30% discount) because:There is nothing to say I won’t find myself in the same position a few years down the line. As a result, I am considering getting rid of my entire Sonos system and investing in speaker systems from other companies that won’t become obsolete in a few years. The problem I now have is that whenever I laun

Absolutely loving the exclusive Sonos radio stations. Sunset Fuzz, cocktail hour and rare grooves providing some excellent tunes to accompany lockdown vibes.    what I’d love is to get the track listing to be able to make a playlist from it and listen to it again at my own leisure. Possibly when having breakfast cocktails, for example, or whilst checking Twitter for the 12,000 time when I should be writing that report that was due last Monday.    sonos - super work - lovely update.    much love    pip

So I own 4 play:1 for a couple of years now and this always happened. I’m trying to figure out if it’s fixable because I’m considering the addition of the Sonos Move to the set-up.  Problem is simple : I get the message that the app cannot connect to the sonos product at any random moment. I get the message when the music is actually playing and let’s say I want to change the song, or just pause it for some reason. I thought it was my phone that was getting old, but then I still get the message after an upgrade to an iPhone 11. However, I do not encounter that issue with my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S10 (is there a known issue with IOS?). That brings me to think that it is not an network/wifi problem. This problem prevented me to get the Beam and before looking elsewhere for a Sonos Move equivalant, I figured I could ask here. I’m one of those who actually like the Sonos App and the combination of all my streaming services. Also, I don’t mind the price tag of the Move, but at this price

OK, why isn’t TIDAL available as a music service to select in the SONOS2 app?  What’s going on between SONOS and Tidal, I am so confused.  I just signed up for the TIDAL $2.00 service for 90 days at the high end sound service and I can’t access SONOS through their application via iPhone, iPad, Apple MacBook Pro, nada…...help!

I have a large .mp3 library.  Search works for normal kind of album, an album by a single artist works fine.  There I use the Artist for the “Album Artist” Tag and the Artist in the “Artist” Tag.  This works well when there is a song on the album featuring another Artist, I use the Artist and add the Featuring artist in the Artist.  The problem is a compilation like the 2019 Grammy Album; “Album Artist” tag is “Various Artists” and I use the Artist singing the song in the “Artist” tag.  So, the song is listed under “Album Artist” and not Artist making that Artist unfindable if I don’t have an album by the artist.  When I look at the song info, it shows the “artist” as the Artist, not “Various Artist.  Frustrating,  Can’t be sure, but I think the search was working in Sonos V1 and stopped working in Sonos V2.  I deleted the index and rebuilt it to no avail.  Not sure what else to try.

Is there a feature to schedule Night Mode on and off? I often turn it on past 10 when people are likley sleeping but forget to turn it off. It doesn’t seem like I’m the only one asking for this feature. Can we get this implemented in the next release ASAP? Thanks

In my Sonos S2 App (iOS) ½ the screen is used up at the top by a “Setup” option. Annoyingly this wants me to connect a pair of surrounds I have already setup with my Arc to one of the 3 beams we have on the network. On top of that I could do without being asked to try out Sonos Radio all the time which is also there. Hitting the x just gets rid of them briefly before they return.

How do I edit ‘My Top Tracks’ under Deezer?   Somehow there are a bunch of tracks in their that I don’t like, but I can’t see any way to get rid of them.The tracks showing in the Deezer site as ‘Favourite Tracks’ appear in Sonos, under the Deezer service as ‘Favourite Tracks’ (all good there)However, in Sonos under Deezer -> My Music -> My Top Tracks I have a different list of tracks that I want to edit.  I can’t see any matching list in Deezer (using the website).  My Top Tracks isn’t a regular Sonos playlist that I can edit.  Any ideas where this list is coming from?The real problem is that Deeer is putting these tracks into my Flow...  

With an update today (now version 12.2 - build 61182310) the Mac desktop app has lost a lot of shortcuts that used to be present if you right clicked the Dock icon - like Mute/Play/Stop. They were really useful to not have to find the app itself when you needed a quick action. Are they missing because of a bug or a deliberate choice to reduce functionality?

My Sonos system worked perfectly with Google Play but I have recently had to transfer to You Tube Music. My library appears for albums & artists but the Songs section just gives an error message and is empty. I want to be able to shuffle my library but can’t without Songs 

I just went through a laborious several hours of setting up a separate S1 system of 3 legacy Play: 5 (gen 1) and 1 Connect.  I had to set all 4 devices to factory since I couldn’t upgrade S1 to get the Removal tool.  The I set up the new S1 network under my wife’s email since it wouldn’t allow me to use my existing email which was in use with S2.  Everytime I open the S2 Controller app it tries to link to the S1 devices and asks me to remove these in order to use S2.  How do I get S2 controller to link to a system that is under a different email account

Just started investigating playlists.. using Android… don't seem to be able to create a playlist from music on my device, also don't seem to be able to create a playlist. Using the s2 app. Any pointers gratefully received...

I’m a Newbie. I save radio streaming stations, such as BBC Radio 3 to My Sonos. But where are the ones I have saved? Where is My Sonos? (Sonos 5)

Hi there! I have just simple question , I’ve hired Amazon HD and i live in Spain, is it possible to listen with ultra HD quality through SONOS app? thanks! 

Heywhy dont people join this discussion and support a request / insist Sonos create a backup option for ANDROID for sonos saves of playlists and songs etc. VOTE 1 here.No negative campers please. It could, in the simplest form be a text dump to email file or something. then things could be recreated manually at least by users.  The commands are there in API’s but Im not a SOAP or Android programmer. “get playlist etc” would be one command and dump these to a txt file…..

So I thought I understood how to take an S2-updated device back to S1, but it is not working for me.I am in my vacation home which has a Symfonisk setup on S1 and works fine.I brought a Sonos One with me, which had been upgraded to S2 at home. I factory reset it, then attempted to Add it to my Symfonisk system here, but the S1 app refuses. I get this screen:I have done this before, has something changed now and it is no longer possible to go-back, even when you have a working S1 system? (And I am well aware that the One is both S1 and S2 compatible).I really don’t want to move my vacation system to S2.

Hi,Is there any way I can get the same choice of music via Apple Music through Sonos as what I can via the Apple app on my phone ?I'm not sure if Ive explained that well enough but I have a lot more music ie: playlists, best of, Acoustic greats, mood music etc to choose from with the app but i can only Bluetooth the app to a car or portable Bluetooth speaker etc. Any way can get the same choice of apple music through sonos ?  

Does anyone know what update 12.2.1 added or fixed? I just got it a few hours ago.