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Dcgman#1
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June 4, 2021
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using NAS with Sonos

  • June 4, 2021
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I’ve pretty much uploaded all of my music to my WDPR2100 NAS. Well at least on the tail end. It’s taking me over a week to figure it out and to copy to NAS. So I’m trying to figure out how to use my NAS to play music on Sonos now. I’m not having much luck. I’ve searched here and found a few old post. One post took me to this...https://support.sonos.com/s/article/78?language=en_US. I followed the directions on my Windows laptop and and my iPhone. Took me a few try’s on the iPhone to get to the Next button. I typed in \\y:mycloudpr2100\music and Next highlighted finally. But when I hit Next I get the message The computer y:mycloudpr2100 cannot be found. I tried my user name and password and still same message. Do I need to configure this on my Windows laptop first before my iPhone? What am I missing here? 

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Update: after a nice long ipa, dinner break and tv time with the wife, I dove back in. Reading up more on the WD MyCloud community site I went back to my WD dashboard and changed a couple more settings and triple checking to make sure SMBv1 was on. There was a change in settings when you upgrade from My Cloud OS3 to OS5. Both NTLMv1 & SMBv1 has to be enabled. My SMBv1 already was. I enabled NTLMv1. After a couple more attempts in Music Library setup I get an Update Music Index Now. It was updating for 30 minutes when I went to bed. Woke up this morning and low and behold on my iPhone I guess it worked because I have the shared folder //mycloudpr2100/music along with old Mac and iTunes folder! So how do I play my NAS music library on my Sonos? I already have the My Cloud Home installed on my iPhone. Nothing happens when I open it up. No music folders/files to be found. Empty. I thought that is the app you use to play from NAS to Sonos?

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Belly M
Belly M
June 4, 2021

Sonos does not like large libraries unfortunately 65k is the max limit, there are workaround but most users hit the buffers waybefore 65k due to metadata / artwork.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

Sonos does not like large libraries unfortunately 65k is the max limit, there are workaround but most users hit the buffers waybefore 65k due to metadata / artwork.

Yes I read that on the forum here. I’ll delete a lot of after I get everything in NAS. Just trying to get it into NAS first. I also have Plex, which I haven’t dealt with yet. That’s next. So I should still be able to get my Sonos to see my music files on my NAS? Correct? I just can’t sign in for it to see each other.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

Maybe I need to start deleting some of the music files before?

Belly M
Belly M
June 4, 2021

You will be able to index your music on Sonos, there will be stuff missing.

 

when you can try a reboot , if no joy you will probably have to ring Sonos so they can connect and see what’s going on.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

You will be able to index your music on Sonos, there will be stuff missing.

 

when you can try a reboot 

Sorry, don’t understand. If I delete some music first? I might be able to index music on Sonos? But they’ll be stuff missing?

Belly M
Belly M
June 4, 2021

Sonos database fills up, not enough space so tracks / albums will not be listed if there are too many tracks. Less tracks, then fine.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

I think I understand you. My NAS is still filling up with my music. I’m sure it’s around 65,000 right now. The disk will keep filling up as there’s no limit except for the size of the disk (4TB, or 2TB each using one for backup). But my Sonos will not recognize the NAS disk right now because it has too many files (65,000). So that’s preventing me from signing on Sonos app you think? Do I need to delete my music files/songs down to around 60,000 before I can use NAS with Sonos? And thank you for being patient with me. I’m about to take a break from this and continue another time or day. A great way to spend a Friday. I started this venture over 10 days ago when my new laptop and WD NAS arrived. Just transferring from MAC to external drive to laptop took forever. Now I’m trying to get my Sonos to play from NAS. I was told it was an adventure and may take some time. Lol.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

That said all my music files has been transferred to NAS. Now I need to go to NAS MyCloud folder and start deleting down to 60,000 or less? Lol. I’m going backwards here. 

Belly M
Belly M
June 4, 2021

Just leave them for the time being and try and get the share connected.

Dcgman#1Author
Headliner I
June 4, 2021

Just leave them for the time being and try and get the share connected.

Okay. I’m going to take a time out and have a beer. I think it’s beer up time. I’ll regroup later. Maybe the timeout will do me some good. I know the beer will for sure. At least I have my files transferred. Geez. Thank you again for your help. I’ll be back. 

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