wheres my music

Is this an Android phone?

Yes

It seems that Google have removed a feature in Android phones that Sonos can no longer exploit. This means no more “on my phone” feature, though alternatives have been offered in other threads on the forum. 

Explanation here: 

It’s a lengthy thread, but there are alternative solutions listed in posts there. 

Thank you. At least I understand WHY. Really annoying.  And am no way techy enough to be able to find alternatives, etc.

Most of those solutions don’t require a ton of ‘techiness’, to coin a word. And don’t sell yourself short.

Lots of us went through this process four years ago when Apple removed this functionality from iOS. 

Thanks!

Give it a try, @Copplestone If you have trouble, ask for help. 

I won’t be posting anything on other posts than mine, but what a lack of respect for the cusstommers to take away helpful  features like playing the music from our phones, don’t even come out that Airplay will go away on Sonos because that’s why I invested too much money on my Roam. 
In a few words, Sonos is giving us nothing but unreliability. too bad         

Apple withdrew ‘On this device’ playback of stored tracks 3 years ago due to security concerns around the device access method and there was nothing Sonos could do about that and most users opted to use ‘Airplay’ and ‘Direct Control’ (Sonos Music API interface) as an alternative playback method - Now it appears it’s a case that Google are following in Apples footsteps and it’s probably for the same security reasons that they are doing this.

Anyhow there are many other methods to play our own tracks on Sonos - so it’s not a huge issue, just inconvenient for a few users who will need to switch their method of library access. At least Sonos have covered many of the available playback alternatives in their recent announcement. It’s just a case of choosing one or more of the mentioned options for playback and moving forward with the technology.

At least any potential security issues will now be set aside and of course none of these things are anything that Sonos has done - this is all down to Google. I’m just surprised it’s taken Google so long to do what Apple did 3 years ago.