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Nospheratu
Contributor I
January 4, 2025

Alarm cannot find local music

  • January 4, 2025
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Does anyone know how to set an alarm to play a track on loop from the local library? I have a track of rain sounds that I’d like to play at the same time each night, I can accomplish this manually but am trying to automate this and I am losing my mind here. The alarms are buried in a secret location in the app, and even after finding them, there is no way to select a track from the local library. The search function when set to local library finds nothing. I also still receive phone notifications for deleted alarms, what in the world?

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Sotiris C.
Sotiris C.
Sonos Staff
January 6, 2025

Hello ​@Nospheratu, welcome to the Sonos Community!

Please have a look at our Support Article Set an alarm on Sonos and more specifically the Additional Details below:

To play tracks from your local Music Library, first add the track to a Sonos Playlist or Imported Playlists then select the playlist as the alarm source.

 I also still receive phone notifications for deleted alarms, what in the world?

Can you explain a little bit more what your experience is and if possible share a screenshot? The Sonos App does not send any phone notifications on alarms set for the Sonos system.

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NospheratuAuthor
Contributor I
January 6, 2025
Alarm notifications. This alarm is deleted but shows up everyday.
There is no way to select from a local source or any playlist 

 

Searching set to the local library, no results, and you can see it’s playing from my library, how can the alarm search not find anything?

Here are screenshots of the issues I’m describing. Your support article refers to playlists, these aren’t a thing anymore in the app, they’ve moved to “favorites” or something and they are extremely unwieldy.

 

Is this the expected behavior? These shots are from my iPad but exactly the same on my phone and wife’s phone. All iOS.

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