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Indexing Music Library

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April 10, 2026
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My app for backing up my music takes about 3 minutes. Indexing my library in Sonos app takes an hour and a half? How come it takes so long?

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User117655

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My new NAS is a Synology DS225+. The sonos NAS user has read only access here.

I have found that, since a Sonos update towards the end of 2025 (ish) that if adding or changing the name of an existing indexed share, the Sonos user requires full read/write access. Without it Sonos allows adding/changing name of the share but the indexing fails. Existing indexed shares remained OK and re-indexable 🤔

I have not checked this very recently but will do soon as I am about to reorganise my library...

kdowling

My new NAS is a Synology DS225+. The sonos NAS user has read only access here.

I have found that, since a Sonos update towards the end of 2025 (ish) that if adding or changing the name of an existing indexed share, the Sonos user requires full read/write access. Without it Sonos allows adding/changing name of the share but the indexing fails. Existing indexed shares remained OK and re-indexable 🤔

I have not checked this very recently but will do soon as I am about to reorganise my library...

That’s interesting. I set this up as new share, new name with the sonos user read only right from the start. Sonos added it and indexed without a problem.

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