Two House Setup

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June 15, 2025
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I have two houses, each with their own Sonos systems. For a long time, I had a single Music Library (ML) at the primary house, hosted on my Synology NAS. When at my secondary house, I did not have access to that ML, as it seems you have to be on the same LAN. I recently installed a Synology NAS at my secondary house, which replicates the content on the NAS at my primary house. I successfully added a second ML to Sonos from the NAS at the secondary house, but when I try to access content at the secondary house, it seems Sonos tries to get the content from the ML at my primary house and can’t find it.

How do I switch between ML’s on separate LANs? Do I have to delete the one on the other LAN, and then re-add it when I switch locations? Or is there a better way?

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Best answer by pbanders

OK, another update, and an updated “Best Answer”. It’s much simpler than I thought, and I wish Sonos would update their support docs to include this info. It seems that each defined Sonos physical system can independently define which ML’s it uses.

I have an ML at each house location which are identical and sync’ed via services on my two NAS boxes. The confusion for me was that ML1, which was at House 1 and on its LAN, was showing up in the list of ML’s when I was at House 2. ML1’s content was inaccessible at House 2 because it’s not on House 2’s LAN. When I created ML2 at House 2 from the replicated content on House 2’s NAS, the presence of both ML’s with identical content apparently caused some conflict issues.

The solution? Delete ML1 from the list of ML’s when using the system at House 2. As soon as I did this, all my content from ML2 became accessible. Why didn’t I do this before? Because I didn’t realize that ML’s are independently associated to each defined Sonos physical system. I haven’t tested this, but I suspect it’s true, even if you have multiple ML’s and multiple Sonos physical systems on the same LAN.

Why didn’t I delete ML1 earlier? Because I thought it would delete ML1 from my other house’s Sonos physical system. Just logged into a PC there that has the Sonos app on it and verified ML1 is still there and the system is working fine. And, under “Manage libraries” in the PC app, only ML1 is showing up, not ML2.

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I’m doing a re-scan now, hoping that will enable all my content. As I told someone long ago about working with computers, “why” isn’t always as important as “how”. If it works, I’m good with it.

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OK, another update, and an updated “Best Answer”. It’s much simpler than I thought, and I wish Sonos would update their support docs to include this info. It seems that each defined Sonos physical system can independently define which ML’s it uses.

I have an ML at each house location which are identical and sync’ed via services on my two NAS boxes. The confusion for me was that ML1, which was at House 1 and on its LAN, was showing up in the list of ML’s when I was at House 2. ML1’s content was inaccessible at House 2 because it’s not on House 2’s LAN. When I created ML2 at House 2 from the replicated content on House 2’s NAS, the presence of both ML’s with identical content apparently caused some conflict issues.

The solution? Delete ML1 from the list of ML’s when using the system at House 2. As soon as I did this, all my content from ML2 became accessible. Why didn’t I do this before? Because I didn’t realize that ML’s are independently associated to each defined Sonos physical system. I haven’t tested this, but I suspect it’s true, even if you have multiple ML’s and multiple Sonos physical systems on the same LAN.

Why didn’t I delete ML1 earlier? Because I thought it would delete ML1 from my other house’s Sonos physical system. Just logged into a PC there that has the Sonos app on it and verified ML1 is still there and the system is working fine. And, under “Manage libraries” in the PC app, only ML1 is showing up, not ML2.

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