FLAC file issue

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I have searched past topics but have not found an exact match for my problem. Like many others, I used to play music located “on this device” (Android phone) over my Sonos network. Everything was working until a recent Sonos app update where they removed that option. I was annoyed but saw that it was still showing my PC on the available list. I have my music folders on the PC set to be seen and accessed on the network. So I tried going that route on the Sonos app. I asked it to select all artists which it dutifully did. Great, so far. I selected an album from an artist, it shows the tracks, and plays them. I’m thinking, okay, my PC is on most of the time anyway so I’ll just use that instead.

Well not so fast. There are a couple of artists that I really like and had ripped their CDs as FLAC files using EAC. Those files show up in the Sonos app but when I try to play them, I get the message, “An error occurred while adding tracks to the Queue (701).”

I am stumped. All of my other music, which are MP3s, play fine. It’s only these FLAC files won’t. They played just fine before the Browse screen option of “on this device” was removed from Android phones. Any ideas? I would consider it a step backward to have to rip all 12 of those albums in MP3.

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The only thing that’s changed is that some while ago Sonos started being able to play local files in 24-bit, instead of just 16-bit. The maximum sampling rate of 48kHz hasn’t changed in over 15 years.

If you’re getting a message along the lines of “error occurred while adding tracks to the queue” then Sonos is probably having trouble locating the files in the first place. Try asking Sonos to update the music library.

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I had a quick look for a manual but found only a quickstart guide that was pretty superficial. You’ll need to poke around in the router settings.

There is third party firmware available for that router too, e.g. DD-WRT and OpenWrt, so I’m sure you could get it going as a shared network storage device somehow or other.

Yeah, I checked the box and it only came with a quickstart guide. I’ll have to get into the router later and see if there is anything in the setup that stands out. I would think that Linksys is so common that there must be a reasonable way to set this up. Thanks for the help.

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