Contributor I

Sonos One and DLNA

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May 27, 2021
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Hi,

I read a lot about Sonos and DLNA and my question is why is not yet possible to play music from a DLNA server running on a NAS?

The Sonos app show the NAS and let me navigate through folders but when I try to play music says: Unable to add music to queue.

It makes no sense to me. Why should I use the obsolete samba protocol to share folders over my network while the DLNA protocol exists?

Sonos is almost perfect but this is a big disqualification.

My Samsung TV sees and play music from my NAS. Obviously I don’t want to play music on my TV and this is why I bought a Sonos speaker.

Regards

Max

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Antifon

Prodigy III

Max - unfortunately I think you are on a lost cause there. I tried to do much the same as you, with several different types of DLNA server (MiniDLNA, Rygel and Myth), but got nowhere.

As far as I’m aware, Sonos have never said that they support DLNA externally, which is a bit ironic, given that - as I understand it - they use DLNA within their own proprietary code.

I’ve searched through all of the threads that I can find on the subject, and I’ve not found one in which Sonos representatives provide any information about their stance on DLNA, so all I can do is guess. It may be that they implement DLNA internally in such a way that each Sonos device will only talk that way to another Sonos device, to prevent people from introducing their own devices into the Sonos DLNA “ecosystem”.

But it’s good that other people are trying - please let us know if you make any progress.

Otherwise, you may need to avail yourself of the “no questions asked” returns policy and send it back for a refund - assuming you are within the requisite period?

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maxmonzAuthor

Contributor I

Everybody interested in DLNA protocol could add his voice to mine and see if Sonos will decide to implement it in the future.

chicks

Sonos devices work fine as UPnP/DLNA renderers. I use them that way from my LMS server and the UPnP plugin, controlled by the Material Skin.

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Ralpfocus

Prodigy III

Once you have initiated a stream from even the most basic DLNA controller you can then use the Sonos App to group rooms together, pause music and control volume

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Antifon

Prodigy III

Sonos devices work fine as UPnP/DLNA renderers. I use them that way from my LMS server and the UPnP plugin, controlled by the Material Skin.

Once you have initiated a stream from even the most basic DLNA controller you can then use the Sonos App to group rooms together, pause music and control volume

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what Maxmonz is asking, but these seem to be complex answers to a simple question.

If I set up a DLNA based media server on my home network, why can the Sonos app not detect and display it as one of the music sources in the Browse screen? I could never get an answer to that (simple) question.

controlav

Lead Maestro

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what Maxmonz is asking, but these seem to be complex answers to a simple question.

If I set up a DLNA based media server on my home network, why can the Sonos app not detect and display it as one of the music sources in the Browse screen? I could never get an answer to that (simple) question.

Have you enabled the two options under Settings / System / Media Servers?

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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Antifon

Prodigy III

Yes - it makes no difference.

I should add that the main reason why I wanted to use DLNA for the media server is to get away from having to configure SAMBA to support SMB1 - the worry that the team that maintains SAMBA will stop supporting that antiquated protocol version and I suddenly won’t be able to access my music library.

brookheather

Contributor I

Sonos devices work fine as UPnP/DLNA renderers. I use them that way from my LMS server and the UPnP plugin, controlled by the Material Skin.

chicks - is this still working since the recent Sonos 13.1.1 update? I can’t stream anymore to my Sonos devices with LMS - the first few seconds plays and then it stops and repeats. I can still stream fine to my Marantz amplifier so it looks like a change on the Sonos end.

chicks

Sonos devices work fine as UPnP/DLNA renderers. I use them that way from my LMS server and the UPnP plugin, controlled by the Material Skin.

chicks - is this still working since the recent Sonos 13.1.1 update? I can’t stream anymore to my Sonos devices with LMS - the first few seconds plays and then it stops and repeats. I can still stream fine to my Marantz amplifier so it looks like a change on the Sonos end.

Working fine for me on 13.1.1 from LMS.

brookheather

Contributor I

Sonos devices work fine as UPnP/DLNA renderers. I use them that way from my LMS server and the UPnP plugin, controlled by the Material Skin.

chicks - is this still working since the recent Sonos 13.1.1 update? I can’t stream anymore to my Sonos devices with LMS - the first few seconds plays and then it stops and repeats. I can still stream fine to my Marantz amplifier so it looks like a change on the Sonos end.

Working fine for me on 13.1.1 from LMS.

Spotty and local streaming works fine but radio streaming from TuneIn and BBC Sounds isn’t working - can you please check a radio stream from TuneIn and see if that works?

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