My speakers/app doesnt want to play music from my phone anymore

Any chance you have an Android phone? There are already several threads on this, but the easiest reference I could quickly find is this:

https://www.engadget.com/sonos-is-ending-support-for-local-file-playback-on-android-184537921.html

Here’s Sonos’ own FAQ

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/play-music-stored-on-your-android-device

Hi Bruce, 

Thank you for your help, my orginal search must not have been worded correctly as i didnt see those articles.

Reading through them, this seems like a mega money grab decision on sonos end. I think ill need to looks in to an alternate speaker system and try to have my money refunded for these.

Poor business decision to take away a perfectly good feature and then make you buy a whole new item to continue to use it.

Very upsetting.

My opinion doesn’t match yours, having been through the iOS version of this, when the OS manufacturer (Apple) blocked the ability of Sonos, and other companies such as Bluenote, from using the mobile devices as network drives. Since this change isn’t in the interest of Sonos, it’s hard to imagine they’re behind it.

And for a money grab, I don’t understand that at all. There’s nothing that Sonos sells that would ‘fix’ this issue. It would, at the worst, require you to get an NAS, something Sonos doesn’t make or sell. And for likely no cost at all, you could put your music on an already existing PC or Mac (neither of which Sonos sells) and use the already existing ‘play from this library’ function that has always existed. 

My interpretation of the article places the “blame” elsewhere than Sonos:

“As newer versions of mobile operating systems are released, it can sometimes change the way information is shared between devices, and this feature will no longer be compatible with newer versions of the Android operating system.”

How can Sonos support a feature that no longer exists in a third party product?

Oh, I did forget the third option, Bluetooth, which I suppose you could possibly consider a ‘money grab’, if you didn’t already have a Sonos device that had Bluetooth built in. Seems like a tenuous assertion, though. 

In another topic iBroadcast was mentioned, that has a free option that allows you to play your uploaded music.

Sonos want you to upgrade to Bluetooth with their new Era speakers. You know, that years old flakey technology that they now promote as cutting edge!

I've attached an extract of an email from Sonos, the response to a query about their faltering support for "owned" music. Nowhere does it say that they are unable to support Android "This device" playback. Basically, they just can't be bothered. The bit about the unreliability of "This device" playback is embarrassing and laughable given their decision to embrace Bluetooth!

Free if you want 128kbps quality music!