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PaulSE16
PaulSE16
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May 16, 2025
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Using 2 SONOS Connect 2s together

  • May 16, 2025
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I have reached the limit of how many tracks I can index on my Connect 2.  I have thought about using FLEX but FLEX is notoriously bad for classical music and that forms the majority of my collection.  So I wondered if I could use two CONNECT 2s together?

My music is held on a NAS and I would use two separate files on the NAS and link one CONNECT 2 to each file thus potentially doubling the amount of music that can be indexed and accessed.

 

Is this possible?  If so, how would I do it?

 

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Best answer by jgatie

No.  The index is copied to every player on the system.  If your library is less than 65,000 tracks but still hitting the limit, you can free up more space by decreasing your tag/filename/path lengths.  Long tags and filename/paths will use up additional indices to store the overflow, making the actual max number of tracks less than 65,00. 

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amun
May 17, 2025

The track and data limits have long been a disappointment - particularly for collections involving a large proportion of classical tracks.

I tried the Sonos version of Plex, which was very limited - nothing like the full Plex functionality. As mentioned above, there’s also the option to hack out large chunks of metadata - but then you end up with two large datasets to maintain - the Sonos one not much use for anything else.

Personally, I no longer regard Sonos as a suitable option into the future, so keep a sub-set of music maxing out the Sonos limits and also keep a seperate full set of music. This can be accessed via a casting program to chromecast compatible devices (CCA into line-in to a Play 5 and an AV receiver in another room).

If/when I come to a decision for the future, at least I’ll still have the main data set available and can just drop the smaller Sonos one.

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