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Albert_8
Avid Contributor I
February 5, 2022

setting up S1

  • February 5, 2022
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In my old S1 and S2 systems I could access my extensive music library on a SAMSUNG SSD attached to the primary ASUS XT8 router.

Unfortunately, my SONOS Sonnect, 5 Play1 and a SONOS ONE are S2, after major issues trying to set up S2 on ASUS XT8 Mesh network without success and having to destroy the old system and build a new one from scratch using SONOS net
Play1 attached to the primary ASUS XT8  router.

I am now unable to connect the music library (SAMBA share) to S2

 

WILL THIS WORK?

All play1, 'sonos one' and Connect are currently S2
 
I have a disconnected bridge still on S1
 
Is it possible to:
 
0) Wire Bridge to router
 
1) Factory reset all Play1 and Connect
 
2) Set up an S1 system starting with Bridge 
 
3) Add 5 Play1 and Connect to new S1 system
 
4) THEN disconnect Bridge and wire the Play1 to router
 
5) THEN add music library.
 
6) THEN convert to S2
 
7) THEN add SONOS ONE speaker?
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buzz
buzz
Grand Maestro
March 5, 2022

My five “folders” are what is listed in Music Library Settings. Each of these folders (shares) has sub folders.

    Albert_8Author
    Avid Contributor I
    April 10, 2022

    I currently have 6362 folders in my library with a total of 937 GB on my NAS and it's working fine on S2.

    I am reading that MERLIN Gnuton fork has published a firmware version with support for XT8 (ASUS RT-AX 95Q (= XT8 = AX6000)

     

    It possibly solves the problem

    Albert_8Author
    Avid Contributor I
    June 12, 2022

    read carefully

    @buzz @beynym

    I do not use a NAS
    I use a 1Tb SSD on the router’s USB3 port

    Why do you reply quoting your experience with a NAS when I am asking about USB3 SSD on a router?

     

    The music folder on the SSD is 43.2 Gb and has 6,626 Files, 558 Folders

    It could be mapped to the music library by SONOS S1

    It cannot be mapped by SONOS S2 version 14.8 build 68329090 or the GNU FORK mentioned above

    Therefore UNLIKE S1, SONOS S2 is no longer capable of indexing large drives

     

    S2 is worse than S1
    shame on SONOS developers

     

    SONOS has other problems unrelated to this:-
    https://www.google.com/search?q=sonos+problem+mesh
    About 374,000 results (0.32 seconds) 

     

     

     

     

     

    ratty
    ratty
    June 12, 2022

    Your router plus SSD (assisted by SMB/CIFS firmware) is a NAS (network attached storage).

    I have a similar number of (FLAC) library files, taking up 4 times as much space, sitting on a 256GB flash drive plugged into a router. S2 indexes and accesses them fine, using SMBv2.

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