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May 17, 2024
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I’ve invested thousands of pounds in my music collection I can no longer access it from my NAS. Why is this?

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DaveS00

Lyricist III

From what I’ve read when the App updates it will break your S1 system :(

It should not, I am pretty sure. The only way to move to the diabolical App for existing users is via the S2 app. I do not have that app on my phone, S1 is a different app and updates to that will not move it out of S1.

I have now used S1 since 2020, and have never approached an inadvertent move to S2 via an update to S1 because I have never downloaded S2.

Just to be safe, I have stopped auto updates even to S1, and at home no one else is interested in Sonos to mess up things by their tinkering.

S1/SMB 1 rules, as far as I am concerned.

Ah - understood. I hadn’t grasped that you are using the S1 app still :)

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Kumar

Ah - understood. I hadn’t grasped that you are using the S1 app still :)

Essentially I have used that app since 2011, and it works just fine for me as a remote for Sonos audio hardware. The key to that is to see Sonos kit as just that - audio hardware and nothing more. Which hardware, I will again say, is of excellent quality for both how it sounds and for how reliable it has been since 2011.

And now I can ignore the SMB version distractions and listen to music via the WD NAS where I have just made a new playlist after a long time.

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fraolim

Enthusiast II

This the original idea. Multi room n music collection

Now the sell personal audio, headphone and they are using their headphones with noise (complaint) cancellation.

1 STAR RATING PLEASE

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fraolim

Enthusiast II

Original idea.

Now we have to live without our music collection

1 STAR RATING PLEASE

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Kumar

That ad takes me back. I was into audiophile gear and was scratching my head as to how these little boxes would fit in, or even if they would. It took some time to transition to the concept and then to the kit, that has worked perfectly with the NAS as well as Spotify later, in 5 zones since 2011.

Via the app that became today’s S1!

I was too late to enjoy the slick CR boxes though.

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limcungwei

Enthusiast II

That ad takes me back. I was into audiophile gear and was scratching my head as to how these little boxes would fit in, or even if they would. It took some time to transition to the concept and then to the kit, that has worked perfectly with the NAS as well as Spotify later, in 5 zones since 2011.

Via the app that became today’s S1!

I was too late to enjoy the slick CR boxes though.

I ve been using sonos since 1st generation and loved them.

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Kumar

On those CR units:

These days I run my Sonos system via Echo Show 5/8 units wired to line in jacks on Sonos, another marvellous Sonos invention. Whenever I play Spotify, I get album art on the Shows for what track is playing, at an easy glance.

Sonos has missed a trick in not giving built in displays for its boxes - competitors like WiiM or Eversolo have these now. So do some others.

When I play local NAS, there is no album art and no convenient way to get it. Only when you get to see it, do you miss it when it isn't there.

But seeing that ad reminds me that Sonos DID provide album art on equally easy to see CR units, when they launched the system. I know why they discontinued these and moved over to phone hosted apps, but they lost the album art easy display feature of the first Sonos kit and never replaced that feature.

Instead, they let software become a master and not remain a slave, to the extent that now Spence is also parroting the “we are the software eating audio company”. Whatever that means…and I suspect this change to becoming software centric is a Spence move, that I am happy to be no part of.

Change is inevitable, but not all change is good, especially change for the sake of change.

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limcungwei

Enthusiast II

On those CR units:

These days I run my Sonos system via Echo Show 5/8 units wired to line in jacks on Sonos, another marvellous Sonos invention. Whenever I play Spotify, I get album art on the Shows for what track is playing, at an easy glance.

Sonos has missed a trick in not giving built in displays for its boxes - competitors like WiiM or Eversolo have these now. So do some others.

When I play local NAS, there is no album art and no convenient way to get it. Only when you get to see it, do you miss it when it isn't there.

But seeing that ad reminds me that Sonos DID provide album art on equally easy to see CR units, when they launched the system. I know why they discontinued these and moved over to phone hosted apps, but they lost the album art easy display feature of the first Sonos kit and never replaced that feature.

Instead, they let software become a master and not remain a slave, to the extent that now Spence is also parroting the “we are the software eating audio company”. Whatever that means…and I suspect this change to becoming software centric is a Spence move, that I am happy to be no part of.

Change is inevitable, but not all change is good, especially change for the sake of change.

I am trying Wiim Pro Plus and it's nice

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psyberwyche

Lyricist II

I’m super confused by all the posts claiming that NAS servers can still be used if SMBv2 is enabled. My NAS server is SMBv2 by default. The option to add a new music library on the Sonos app is greyed out, both on mobile and on the desktop app. So it seems to be incorrect that an external drive can be accessed AT ALL since the new update.

Bumper

I’m super confused by all the posts claiming that NAS servers can still be used if SMBv2 is enabled. My NAS server is SMBv2 by default. The option to add a new music library on the Sonos app is greyed out, both on mobile and on the desktop app. So it seems to be incorrect that an external drive can be accessed AT ALL since the new update.

This is true of the mobile apps. Desktop app can still add libraries for now

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