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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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Trending Lyricist I
Oct 15, 2022 10:18 PM UTC

Got Michael Dick’s solution working. One Drive is huge and it’s ridiculous Sonos does not support it natively. Silly hoops and hurdles nonetheless super pleased Michael made a solution. I’m going to send him a few bucks. 

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Oct 16, 2022 12:16 PM UTC

Got Michael Dick’s solution working. One Drive is huge and it’s ridiculous Sonos does not support it natively. Silly hoops and hurdles nonetheless super pleased Michael made a solution. I’m going to send him a few bucks. 

Its up to Microsoft to do that, not Sonos, and they turned this off when they killed Groove, their music service. No music service, no legal rights to stream.

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Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Trending Lyricist I
Oct 17, 2022 4:02 AM UTC

Got it. I’ll blame Microsoft then. :) Thank you. It’s ridiculous that the powers that be make it difficult to play your own music that you’ve already paid for. Playing a song on Sonos from your One Drive should be a simple and normal thing they’d want to accommodate considering I’m paying them a monthly free and I’m assuming they’re prefer I keep doing that. 

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Oct 17, 2022 10:50 PM UTC

Got it. I’ll blame Microsoft then. :) Thank you. It’s ridiculous that the powers that be make it difficult to play your own music that you’ve already paid for. Playing a song on Sonos from your One Drive should be a simple and normal thing they’d want to accommodate considering I’m paying them a monthly free and I’m assuming they’re prefer I keep doing that. 

You would think it is simple, but it is very much the opposite. Streaming music, from OneDrive or anywhere else, is a legal nightmare. Technically it i easy enough, and you have found someone who has done that for you. However it is technically against the OneDrive Terms of Service and likely contradicts copyright law in your country.

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Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Airgetlam
Oct 18, 2022 4:35 AM UTC

You mean it isn’t ‘just a few lines of code’?

 

;)

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Oct 18, 2022 12:17 PM UTC

You mean it isn’t ‘just a few lines of code’?

 

;)

The code is the easy bit :-)

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Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Local Superstar
Oct 18, 2022 3:57 PM UTC

It seems you have to grant access from the OneDrive for Sonos App to your OneDrive, I assume that allows read access for all files on your OneDrive, not just music files?

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Lyricist I
Aug 15, 2023 12:16 AM 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

This was, in a word, money.  Thanks for taking the time to code this...

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