Why have I have lost access to my music library on both Sonos S1 and S2 products?

I think I solved the issue I was having with the Sonos Windows desktop controller not being able to access my music library on my NAS drive. I have been following Ken_Griffiths suggestion of putting the iTunes Music Library.xml file in the root folder of my music library so that Sonos would pick up my iTunes playlists for many years. For backup purposes, I also copied my iTunes Library.itl and .iTunes Preferences.plist files to that folder. Apparently the Sonos controller now chokes on the latter two files. I deleted all three iTunes files from my NAS music library folder then tried to add the library to Sonos. Success! All of my music files were there in the Sonos controller. Next, I copied my iTunes Music Library.xml file back into the root folder and forced a music library update in the controller. Success! My iTunes playlists are now back and accessible in both the Sonos desktop controller and in the new ios app. Now I guess I will have to wait to be able to manage my music library from the ios app but this is now a minor inconvenience rather than a major one.

Quoting shb65, “Just to let you know: copying the iTunes Library.xml file into the Music folder didn’t work.  The playlists still weren’t picked up.  I tried copying iTunes Library.itl into the Music folder too, but that still didn’t work.”

After you copied your iTunes Music Library.xml file into your music folder, did you force the Sonos controller to do a music library update? The controller won’t see your iTunes playlists until you update. Also, based on my recent experience, I would recommend not copying the iTunes Library.itl file into your music library folder as it now seems to cause problems in Sonos and does not appear to be needed to import your playlists into the Sonos controller.

murobertson wrote: “After you copied your iTunes Music Library.xml file into your music folder, did you force the Sonos controller to do a music library update? The controller won’t see your iTunes playlists until you update.”

The answer is yes, I did, and it didn’t work.  But encouraged by your message I tried again, and now it’s worked.  I’ve absolutely no idea what’s changed since last time, but I have my playlists back - thank you!

Glad to hear it worked!

I have spent thousands of dollars on Sonos equipment, and now I can’t dependably listen to music I own. 

• After App update I kept receiving errors when trying to play music off of my local network library.  The settings on the app have nothing for managing the library access, or updating the library.  Eventually, after a week or so, it started working again magically.  Still no options to update anything related to the library.
• Comcast was doing work in my neighborhood yesterday, and I could not listen to music on my local network because the stupid Sonos app could not connect to the internet. I did not need anything from the internet, the music and the damn Sonos devices are all connected to the local network.

To hell with Sonos. 

I bought their equipment, I told others to buy their equipment.  Now they are moving away from letting me use the equipment the way I want.  Bait and switch.  Maybe this will encourage some people to start working on some open source projects and equipment.  It seems for the amount of money this equipment costs it ought to be possible to build something just as good that does not rely on having the manufacturer interfering with how you use it.

The point is, and with thanks and all due respect to those who have shared their experiences and expertise with work around solutions, we shouldn’t have to do ANYTHING extra to enjoy the products we bought from Sonos.

Hey everyone who has lost My Music I have an idea. Let’s get a class action lawsuit against Sonos. 

I have p pieces of Sonos that I cannot use with my music. This is *! I call for  them to axe the the idiot CEO. I emailed him and not reply. Their app has always been *. I cannot count the times I had friends over and go to play music and it will not find my speakers. I think Sonos should by our Sonos products back. Everyone let folks know that Sonos does not work and support is crap. 

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Not sure about everyone else  but an update last week, and suddenly my own music library was available again. I still don't like the new Android app though. Not as user friendly as the previous version.

The Sonos app on my iPhone has changed out of all recognition.

Despite updating software (on my Sonos 1’s ??) no facility to play music from my home NAS (//NAS/Public/iTunes).

Searched on the Community and found this topic.

Booted up Sonos Controller on Windows laptop, mandatory software update (I really feared the worst) but straight access to my NAS music playlists and music tracks play fine using the Controller.

iPhone IOS app displays the music track that I have selected and playing from the Controller, I can pause and restart the current track but no options to select anything else (i.e. no access to my NAS library).

May just be coincidence but the Sonos Windows laptop Controller has the gold coloured ‘app logo’ whereas on the iPhone my gold app logo has changed to black (probably via one of the recent app updates ?). When I was messing around trying to update iPhone app software it even prompted me to try downloading the Sonos S1 (grey app logo) app, which I did but still no success. (This brings back recall of a major app change a few years ago when Sonos had to row back and give access to NAS files for old S1s via the gold logo app).

I’m still none the wiser about the iPhone app solution - my daughter is ok as she streams from Spotify but I have ~3,500 albums in my NAS iTunes library ...

I tried to contact Sonos Support via telephone but was told the wait time was estimated at 110 minutes ...

@Billym44 Not sure about everyone else  but an update last week, and suddenly my own music library was available again. I still don't like the new Android app though. Not as user friendly as the previous version.

Is your music library stored on a NAS ??