Controllers & Music Services

looking at possibly adding a NAS drive to use with my Sonos , I have about 2 GB of music on the computer, which is backed up to a external desktop HD.I doubt i would use all of it with the sonos, say at the most 1 GB. Would a single disc NAS be ok, NAS drives have always been a bit of a mystery to me, i understand the basics of the raid side with mirror images, but i cant see me wanting this as I keep the music stuff backed regularly. Single NAS ready populated drives are a good bit cheaper as well. Looking at a max budget of £150 to £200, any advice on this , and what to purchase appreciated. Last question, 75% of my music is in MP3 format, the rest is Flac, will Sonos play Flac, if so would I notice any difference in sound, i am happy with MP3, so wonder if its worth bothering with Flac, considering the ammount of space it takes up.

Does Sonos move support HSP? I AM going to use It with skype on an Ipad or skype on an Android phone. Will It work?

I have a Sonos Port connected to my stereo and a Play:5 sitting in the same room. How can I force group the Sonos Port to my Play:5 so when I use the play button on the 5, I can play my music on both devices? Thanks.

Hi, I presently store all my ripped CD’s in flac format on a local drive NAS. However, device is old, and I therefore consider alternative solutions. I have a very fast fiber internet connection. Is it feasible at all to stream music in flac format from the cloud? Which cloud services offer online storage of flac files, while being compatible with Sonos?

I am a Sonos customer for many years and happy with it. In recent years, I had to get a hearing aid and am researching a way to connect it via bluetooth to my Sonos, so that I can control my hearing through it, without upsetting the neighbours…. I read that the CONNECT box has an Analogue output that I could connect a Bluetooth device to be paired with my ear buds… But it seems: The connect box is an old technology The Analaogue output is not via a 3.5mm plug and all Bluetooth I can find require that type of interface So, what are my options?

I can no longer play songs on my iPhone to the Sonos? Please don’t tell me it’s an iOS compatibility issue. I’d expect the Sonos App to have that capability natively.    I don’t want to have to use AirPlay or upload my songs to a music service. Not an acceptable workaround.    the previous Sonos app had a very easy “On this Phone” option. Worked great.    Any reasonable options will help.    Thanks

How can I put songs into the queue? I tried so many times in many different ways and nothing seems to work..

Somehow, the past 2 weeks, either Windows 10 did an update or Sonos did, causing the PC app to quit functioning - tries to start up, small 2” x 2” or so splash screen then it hangs. Have uninstalled 2x (sucks because you have to reboot) - prior you need to force shut down via Task Manager all the little pieces, then uninstall, then reboot - works for about a day then hangs again.   The PC is part of anyone and everyone’s home Sonos - the phone app doesn’t suffice when you’re on the damn phone - get your act together and have the PC and Mac based app full functionality and give it some damn love.

So, allegedly, Amazon HD is supported on Sonos. How does one know what songs are in HD and what are not?  I don’t see any of this indicated on the Sonos app.   Is every song in the upgraded HD format and we should just presume we are getting that quality? Thanks in advance

Hi, is there a way to play podcasts that I get from my podcast app on my Android on the sonos speakers? Also I want to listen to the Australian ABC Listen App through the Sonos speakers? I'm finding the sonos app quite limited in term of accessing apps that I normally listen through. 

I have encountered a bug that I assume has something to do with locale/encoding. I am using the Sonos Controller on an up-to-date Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge) on which the phone is currently in Japanese. I have just paid for YouTube Music and have added my account, but when I tap on "YouTube Music" from my list of services, I see this page: I assume this is an error page of some sort but it isn't being displayed properly. My YouTube Music account settings have my language set to English (UK), and my region set to Canada. I have tried changing the language on YouTube Music to Japanese but this doesn't seem to fix the issue. Any ideas?

Until recently I had a number of Sonos devices but only one of them was Airplay compatible. All devices are always grouped as Everywhere. When I play sound on an Apple Ipad it would automatically be distributed to all Sonos devices. This is great. Sonos is ecouraging owners to trade up to newer devices that are Airplay compatible. So I now have 3 Sonos devices which are Airplay compatible. But now when I connect to the same Airplay device that I previously did the sound is no longer passed to all devices. The 2 new Airplay devices are removed from the Everywhere group. Why is this happening and how do I stop this? I just want all the devices to be in one group.

Well Sonos, when are you going to support Apple MacOS 10.15 Catalina?

I’m sure a lot of us use old tablets to control Sonos, I use this Vizio tablet. After the recent update i’m getting a warning saying that my Android version, 6,  is not supported. There is no Android update available for this tablet. The app still works, will it stop working completely in the future?    

Can I play my Sonos  playlist on someone else’s Sonos playbar?

Just purchased new laptop with Catalina iOS and App Store did not have Sonos App. Where can I find it? Is is findable or has Apple removed Sonos App?

Really struggling now….  spent hours going the forums and comments but I’m still no further on… got an original play1 blue and all of a sudden I can’t  play my iTunes music from my iPhone through my speaker… there’s just no option! I have deleted the app I have hard reset my Sonos speaker I have turns of restrictions. Still nothing! If I can’t get sorted then what’s the point of keeping the speaking that does play my music??    please help!!!

Hello Everyone,   After many researches, I sadly coun’t find what I was looking for anywhere. Back in the days, I like the Sonos 8.0 “loading screen” a lot. I would like to have it as a wallpaper, but I can’t manage to find it anywhere :-(  (attached a picture sample of it. I would like a wallpaper of the image behind the error message) Sonos Support Team suggested I ask my request here ! So let’s give it a chance.   Thanks in advance for those who will try to help.   Ysh

Hi! I've turned off parental control in Sonos app but I see below that Youtube Music filtering content and when for example I listening Without Me by Halsey from Youtube Music I see 'bzzz' sound on explicit words. How can I copmpletely turn off content filtering on Youtube Music on my Sonos system?

I have a Brennan CD storage system and a couple of Sonos One(gen2) speakers. How can I play the CD’s through my speakers?

I have a Sonos Move speaker and the software has not been updated for it to work with Spotify connect  yet.  Does anyone else find this annoying?  And do we know when Sonos will update the software to be compatible with Spotify Connect?

Since I have already selected the recycle option to get the 30% discount on 2 new Play 5 speakers. Can  the old gen 1 Play 5 be used as a passive speaker ( no streaming) through the aux input? If not I suggest they offer this option going forward. I am extremely disappointed that  I have to spend an additional $700 to replace my old Gen 1 Play 5 speakers due to a “ software update”. 

So if I decide to stay in unsupported legacy mode how will I be able to administrate my system? Will I be able to add components? (I might get components from environmental friendly people) If not what happens if I also need to reset a component? Will that be bricked? Will there be a legacy controller for all systems?  

I saw a slightly ambiguous reply last night from Sonos about this, but I would like it confirmed before I start shouting from the social media roof tops please…. I can’t afford to upgrade my 2 x Play5 G1 so I am going to be forced into the coexistence model where I have two separate Sonos systems (Legacy and Modern) on my home network. Does this mean that I will not be able to play music from a streaming service on my Modern system and then group it with speakers in the legacy system?  

Anyone use WD My Cloud Home and Sonos? I dont mind the limited views to Artist, Album and Genre but I wish they worked better. In Artist, this works on Artist, not Album Artist as it does in the main Sonos music view. So albums where artists duet with other artists get listed as separate entries.   And whilst new items get added, updates dont work well. I've been trying to collect incorrect tags for months. I know they are correct in the actual track itself. I've checked them in iTunes and Metatogger, they are correct. I've deleted and reported. I've kept Sonos open for six hours. I still have rogue genres.   And it doesnt support albums with multiple discs. And because of that, it sorts by track number. So track 1 from each disc is shown, then the 2s and then the 3s, etc. Bit rubbish. And as the updating tags doesnt work, this doesnt get corrected. All together, a bit shoddy.