recommend NAS drive to play cd’s through sonos

Since we don’t know if you have an S1 or S2 system, or both it is a bit iffy to recommend something.

Personally I use a home-built NAS based on a Raspberry Pi as it is the most flexible and for me the cheapest.

Give us some more info please.

If it is to be used for just serving music, and your router has a USB input, a USB stick of the larger sizes may be the best solution.

Since the normal Sonos database has a 65k limit and you do not mention using Plex for example, you’e music collection will not be a very large one. I’d keep it as simple as possible.

My collection is somewhat larger and I use Plex on a QNAP NAS.

Thanks for the responses. I have further information about my set up.

I’ve recently upgraded to S2. I have a Sonos Port connected to my analog hi-fi and have a Move 2 on order.

I currently stream my CD collection from my desktop PC after my Seagate disk drive failed. The Seagate was performing well up to this point and convenient in that I didn’t need to have the PC switched on to play music.

Stats from the Music folder on my desk top:

• Size 128 GB
• Files 15,115
• Folders 1,541

The size is growing but slowly as I mix up my music formats.

is this info useful? Thanks again for your help. GK

That lot would easily fit on a 256GB flash stick. What make/model is your router? 

Hi - My router is a Virgin Media Hub 3.0

Thanks 

Apparently that router doesn’t offer file sharing from an attached drive.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Setting-up-NAS-with-an-external-hard-drive-via-the-Virgin-Hub-3/td-p/5265543

I would just look at the Black Friday sales and go for a NAS that supports SMB v2 or higher and go with whatever suits your budget - I personally use Netgear NAS boxes, but those capable of sharing files over SMB v2 should work fine - pick ones with the faster processor and more ram memory, or ones where you can upgrade the ram yourself, later on.

I’ve been using Synology. In my experience the My Cloud family is extremely difficult to deal with.

To avoid the longstanding -- and still unfixed -- issues with Sonos and larger libraries, get a NAS solution which is able to temporarily switch to SMBv1. After indexing, the NAS can be reverted to SMBv2 for regular audio playback.