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Contributor I
Dec 14, 2019 7:01 PM UTC
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Sonos access to OneDrive Music Folder

I revised things recently when my old computer died, which we used as a local server, including a Music folder that we accessed via SONOS. When we got a new computer, we canned the server idea and placed all our files, including our music folder, onto Microsoft OneDrive. Is it possible to stream from OneDrive? What about some other online repository? Or must it be local?

 

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MiDiAnswer
Trending Lyricist I
May 11, 2020 10:06 PM UTC

Recently ran into this myself and put together a small app to connect Sonos to OneDrive directly.

Take a look at https://michaeldick.me/sonos-onedrive/

Cheers

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bockersjv
Local Superstar
Dec 21, 2020 4:18 PM UTC

Microsoft stopped the ability to stream music from your one drive when they dropped Groove and move moved to Spotify as a partner. It was a real shame as it seemed a great solution. I presume it was part of the deal with Spotify for them to remove the ability to stream users own music. 
 

Google did much the same thing. I am just hoping that Sonos never removes the Local music service as I’m old school and still buy CDs as i like to own the music I’ve bought. 

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Trending Lyricist I
Dec 21, 2020 4:36 PM UTC

Thank you.  That was helpful.

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Dec 22, 2020 1:05 AM UTC

Microsoft stopped the ability to stream music from your one drive when they dropped Groove and move moved to Spotify as a partner. It was a real shame as it seemed a great solution. I presume it was part of the deal with Spotify for them to remove the ability to stream users own music.

The Spotify deal was to sweeten the deal, it did not drive the decision to cut Groove. The deletion of Groove was indeed a bummer, but it just wasn’t financially viable, especially given the differing laws regarding streaming in different countries. Technically it was solid, produced by a smart team in Paris.

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Lyricist I
Dec 23, 2020 2:53 PM UTC

MiDi’s app works very well.  I can access all my music but it can be cumbersome to wade into all the folders to get to a song one at a time.  Haven’t found how to access a playlist.

Has anyone been able to link directly to OneDrive to access their iTunes library to use as Sonos’ “Music Library”?  It updates if I leave my PC on all the time as the path to OneDrive goes through the PC. But I want to be able to turn the PC off and have Sonos get the update for the Music Library directly from OneDrive.  Accessing a “shared music folder” under system settings appears to require a path that includes the “Computer” the library is shared from. 

Now that MiDi’s app gets us access to OneDrive, is there a “Path” that will link directly to OneDrive in the folder where my iTunes library resides? 

Thanks much for any help on this.  JJ

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JJ
Trending Lyricist I
Dec 23, 2020 3:40 PM UTC

@MiDi’s solution works but I lose it.  Not sure if its when my computer sleeps.

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Trending Lyricist I
Feb 15, 2021 5:50 PM UTC

Google did much the same thing. I am just hoping that Sonos never removes the Local music service as I’m old school and still buy CDs as i like to own the music I’ve bought. 

Me too. I like to own the music, plus I think half of my CD’s have music that you cannot possibly find anywhere else. I mean: I bought a CD in Turkey with Turkish music from the 70’s as a souvenir of a great vacation. Try and find that somewhere!!

So it is either my Music Library on NAS (Synology working well, so far, much better than Buffalo) or -the ideal scenario- my music folder on OneDrive, so that I do not have to worry about backups, and the inevitable mechanical failures of the Synology drive etc. etc.

What is Sonos waiting for?

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Trending Lyricist I
Feb 15, 2021 6:50 PM UTC

A really smart guy named Michael Dick developed a tool that let’s you connect OneDrive to Sonos.  I can’t seem to find it right now.

 

It worked bit when I tried it I lost the connection when my computer restarted.  I’ll have to try again.

 

See https://michaeldick.me/

 

 

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Avid Contributor I
May 16, 2021 6:18 PM UTC

Michael Dick’s solution worked for me, legend, and he’s super responsive.

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Lyricist I
Jul 17, 2021 8:47 AM UTC

This is awesome massive Kudos to Michael Dick - OneDrive for Sonos (michaeldick.me)

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Lyricist I
Apr 3, 2022 7:31 PM UTC

Midi s answer did not wrk for me. It took ages to type it all in correctly then I pressed enter and th enter et came back with the word ERROR. Really peeved as I can’t play my music library ,only amazons 

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