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Coyotefred
Contributor I
December 28, 2019
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USB flash drive Archer router--can't add Music Library

I’m in the same boat as the poster in a previous thread here (unfortunately never received an answer).

I’ve checked all the USB settings on the router side and everything looks normal, showing that USB is being shared.

I’ve tried two different USB devices and the result is the same.

How can I determine the correct path to enter into the Sonos app to get this set up as my Music Library?

Thanks-

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    Virtuoso
    December 30, 2019

    In the Sonos controller app, try adding the network share as \\TP-SHARE\sdb1

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    Virtuoso
    December 30, 2019

    In the Sonos controller app, try adding the network share as \\TP-SHARE\sdb1

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      CoyotefredAuthor
      Contributor I
      December 30, 2019

      In the Sonos controller app, try adding the network share as \\TP-SHARE\sdb1

       

      Looks like we have a winner—thank you Prodigy!  And thanks castalla for all your replies/help in trying to get this to work for me.  By the way I added \\TP-SHARE\sdb1 via the desktop controller and not the app…probably works either way.

      I’ll provide a little background on my situation for future reference of others who may be searching these threads.  Previously I’ve had the Music Library set up to pull music from folders on the hard drive of an always-on Windows 10 computer.  Frequently the music would stop and I’d get that message ‘unable to play music because server cannot be found’ message.  Assuming it was my overloaded WIFI environment, I plugged this always-on computer in to the router with an ethernet cable, but the same problem persisted.  I also considered buying the BOOST to solve this problem, but the ethernet cable experiment suggested the issue wasn’t due to the connection.  This always-on computer runs Blue Iris camera software, which sometimes pushes the computer up to near 100% CPU.  I’m guessing that when this happens, it interrupted the Sonos somehow leading to my stopped/interrupted music.  So the solution seemed to be moving the Sonos Music Library off that always-on computer.  When I discovered that my router had a USB port and that others had used this as a Music Library location, that seemed the way to go.

      So knock on wood this seems to have solved my problem…several hours now with no music stoppage.  If others are in a similar boat this might not be a bad route to go, even if it means replacing your router (if your current one doesn’t have USB capability); the router I’m using is currently selling for just over $50, compared to several hundred for the NAS devices I had eyeballed.

      castalla
      Local Superstar
      December 30, 2019

      Good news!  

      I’ve used the usb method for ages & the fact it’s always there is really useful.  But if you can’t see the ‘drive’ in Win10 (File Explorer) then how can you copy new files over to it?  Can you use the \\TP-SHARE\sdb1 notation  to see the drive in Win10?  (I use Linux myself).

       

      (I do wonder why your settings never showed the smb prefix?)

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      CoyotefredAuthor
      Contributor I
      December 30, 2019

      Good news!  

      I’ve used the usb method for ages & the fact it’s always there is really useful.  But if you can’t see the ‘drive’ in Win10 (File Explorer) then how can you copy new files over to it?  Can you use the \\TP-SHARE\sdb1 notation  to see the drive in Win10?  (I use Linux myself).

       

      (I do wonder why your settings never showed the smb prefix?)


      Well I’ll have to leave it to more knowledgeable folks to answer that second question.  As far as the first, I guess I was just planning on physically unplugging the flash drive and using it on a computer when I needed to update the music/files on it and then plug it back in.  This wouldn’t happen a lot, so not real inconvenient :)

      castalla
      Local Superstar
      December 30, 2019

      I just tried it on win10.  Using the File manager you can enter \\192.168.1.1\sdb1 & you should be able to access the shares.  Could be useful to copy over new files, etc.

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