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is there a way to play to Sonos 1 music stored on my Android phone

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
January 22, 2024
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Simply want to play music from my droid phone to the Sonos. Thanks. Hope it aint nuclear missile science

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Best answer by Schlumpf

@g2c

You have to upload your music files to their servers. Visit the homepage… there you will find a „how to“.
After that you can use the Service either from the Sonos app (but only streaming possible) or from the iBroadcast app on your phone (also streaming directly to Sonos or streaming and downloading to your phone). So using it with Sonos I suppose both ways you will need an internet connection.
Not sure if streaming offline tracks from iBroadcast app to Sonos within your home network is possible.

Airgetlam

Not any longer, Google has blocked that, much like Apple did several years ago. You could copy the music to your PC, though, and play it from there.

Bruce

Schlumpf

Virtuoso

Don’t know for how long this will work in future, but if you’re still on a S1 system, „on this device“ still works with an Android phone.

Ralf

Ken_Griffiths

@g2c

Perhaps just use the iBroadcast service on Sonos to play your tracks instead. See this link…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/ibroadcast

g2cAuthor

Contributor II

Don’t know for how long this will work in future, but if you’re still on a S1 system, „on this device“ still works with an Android phone.

Thanks, I have s2🤔

g2cAuthor

Contributor II

@g2c

Perhaps just use the iBroadcast service on Sonos to play your tracks instead. See this link…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/ibroadcast

Thanks! i installed ibroadcast created an account, authorized sonos and now i have in browse: sonos radio, TuneIn and Ibroadcast. Ibradcast installed sample albums that do play on my play1 BUT i don't know how to add phone's music folders. Any help would be appreciated ☺️

SchlumpfAnswer

Virtuoso

@g2c

You have to upload your music files to their servers. Visit the homepage… there you will find a „how to“.
After that you can use the Service either from the Sonos app (but only streaming possible) or from the iBroadcast app on your phone (also streaming directly to Sonos or streaming and downloading to your phone). So using it with Sonos I suppose both ways you will need an internet connection.
Not sure if streaming offline tracks from iBroadcast app to Sonos within your home network is possible.

Ralf

Ken_Griffiths

@g2c

Perhaps just use the iBroadcast service on Sonos to play your tracks instead. See this link…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/ibroadcast

Thanks! i installed ibroadcast created an account, authorized sonos and now i have in browse: sonos radio, TuneIn and Ibroadcast. Ibradcast installed sample albums that do play on my play1 BUT i don't know how to add phone's music folders.

See FAQ here for how to upload your tracks and just like the sample albums, your music tracks/albums will playback all for free too…

https://ibroadcast.com/faq/

g2cAuthor

Contributor II

@g2c

Perhaps just use the iBroadcast service on Sonos to play your tracks instead. See this link…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/ibroadcast

Thanks! i installed ibroadcast created an account, authorized sonos and now i have in browse: sonos radio, TuneIn and Ibroadcast. Ibradcast installed sample albums that do play on my play1 BUT i don't know how to add phone's music folders.

See FAQ here for how to upload your tracks and just like the sample albums, your music tracks/albums will playback all for free too…

https://ibroadcast.com/faq/

Great! Thank you

g2cAuthor

Contributor II

I want to thank all of you who took the time to reply. Indeed Ibroadcast does allow, once the music is uploaded to their cloud, to play it locally on devices logged to my account and to play to sonos.

Unfortunately, my file structure (nainly per composer) is not maintained and i may need to retag all album names.

Thanks again

bockersjv

Local Superstar

If you are going down the retag route I can recommend mp3tag, works with other file types. I used it to embed album are and tidy my collection.

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