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I have external speakers by Sonos and Sonance connected to a Bluesound Powernode 2i. The first set of speakers blew after 2 years and this set have lasted 1 year and the bass has gone but they still both work with a tinny sound

Hi, I hope everyone is doing well.  I am enjoying my new Sonos home theater system   I have a Samsung flatscreen connected to my Apple TV. I have the HDMI going directly to the Samsung.  Is this the best way to set it up?  Or should I be connected directly to the Apple TV? I’ve noticed that most of the sound coming is Dolby digital        Thank you for your reply   

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Hello.I recently purchased some Era 100 speakers to connect to my Sonos Arc.The room is large, and I use them for both movies and music.I've read that for the most immersive sound, the best position is B, but that would be detrimental if I'm watching TV or listening to music at the table.What setup do you recommend to immerse myself in movies and listen to music from across the room?Thanks in advance.

All music in all streaming apps that includes apple music, amazon music , Spotify, work fine on my old sonos play 1's in its own sonos room. However, my new arc ultra, 2 era 300's, and sub 4, all using wireless connectivity to the router drop songs in all streaming apps intermittenly and consistently (Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify). My new Hisense 65 inch TV audio which is also connected via wifi works absolutely fine via Surround, HD, UHD, and Atmos fornats.  Should I hard wire my arc ultra to my router and try?From AI OverviewYes, you should absolutely hardwire your Arc, Era 300s, and Sub to your router to improve their wireless performance and resolve intermittent music drops. Your old Sonos Play:1s likely work fine because they aren't part of the same wireless network as your newer devices, which may be experiencing interference or a weak connection. Wiring the new components will provide a more stable and reliable network connection, which is often the solution to this type o

Hi! Ok, stoked but as techie w.ADD Sonos put me through a really enjoyable wringer. i work in IT Support for fiber, but I know I’m smart enough to know cocky vs. practical, I know a lot about a little and that’s the truth: please help as I’ve lupus, I love music , I need easy access to play consistent soundstage , stereo era100s w.Sub Mini is great.  not as much now with beam gen2, though as surrounds and sub to push the beam , movie pops like it’s amazing, crack the whip good audio.(on eBay official, btw eBay Sonos store purchasing  is smartest. You get a 2yr warranty plus if you’re patient, awesome savings ie. Brief august coupon,  had era @ $120, factory refurbished is usually smarter than new . If you know, you know..Anyway; sorry ADD again.… context is When sub mini was added, I loved  the music soundstage . As 2.1  please help as I’m used to music using stereo + sub, the L+R , is this lost since bought  Beam Gen2 now,? ie. Downgraded atmos or DD+ vs. automatic separation and beam

Hello team,does anyone else find JioSaavn music service to be very temperamental?now when I click it it doesn’t show anything.ive gone to reauthorise but after logging into to JioSaavn and clicking “authorise” on the Sonos app, Sonos just hangs with a spinning circle.

We have a really awkward room set-up. Is there a system with 3 surround speaker to put on each corner of the sofa (with a sound bar under the TV and a Subwoofer we can put anywhere)?Or do you have another suggestion? Ps The roof of the extension is vaulted (not a flat roof). See below a sketch:   

I have had my Sonos system for many years without an issue until the new app was released.I use the S1 app successfully until recently, when the system stopped working.Through trial and error and help from websites I have got the system working and managed to connect and load my music libraries.All the songs and artwork is loaded and visible. However, it won’t play. It keeps saying there is an error and won’t play.Apple Music and radio etc all play fine, but My Music library will just not play. Any solutions very welcome. Thanks      

Since the Sonos ecosystem has (or should I say had - read on...), for me, calmed down a lot recently I took the plunge to replace some of my older speakers with new. This ended up as a full Ultra/Era300/Sub4 surround setup and and Era100 pair. However on successfully introducing these to my system, which went very smoothly, I can not access my local music (NAS sourced) on any of the new speakers. All pre-existing speakers are fine. I have tried:Resetting a few of the new speakers and re-introducing Creating a new music folder in an existing share Creating a new music share Re-adding a removed & reset Play:1 to my system Splitting the surround system into component speakers  Multiple reboots of speakers and all network componentsThe speakers have all had last weeks firmware update and this did not address the problem. All speakers are on the same (unchanged) network. All are in the same positions the speakers they are replacing were and now some, for testing, are next to pre-existin

Is it possible to have 2 systems in two different rooms each with a Sonos Sub Mini working autonomously 

sonos s2 controller app on android and running Apple music app within S2 app.  Is  anyone  able to not have tracks drop and stop playing  with new Arc Ultra, Era's 2 era 300's,  and sub 4?  i cannot do.  If zi play just my old play 1 speakers there is no issue.  Al sound played from my TV only plays fine, no drops, that includes Amazon music, Spotify. zpandora.  Apple music is not availabe on Google TV as an app unfortunately.

As I'm not able to reply anymore on the other topic here's a copy paste below. This issue still exists and is there for years now with a period in between it did work without issues. Any update on this? I'm experiencing the exact same issue as described below with my Sonos One Gen1. I can say volume 30 instead of volume 3 or volume 50 instead of 5 etc.to have it work correctly but it's still a bit weird this hasn't been solved so far.Info from another topic by ​@P.Janssen“For some months now I’m experiencing an issue when asking Google Assistant to set the volume of our speakers/rooms to a desired volume. This does not work properly when asking to set the volume to either level 3, 5 or 10. The other volume levels seem to work okay though, as per below list:“Hey Google volume 0” : room volume is correctly set to 0% “Hey Google volume 1” : room volume is correctly set to 10% “Hey Google volume 2” : room volume is correctly set to 20% “Hey Google volume 3” : room volume is incorrectly set

I have a WMA album that I’m trying to play through the Astiga music service.When I play the album, the album loads into the play queue but then just skips through all the tracks.If I download the files, they have this information from ffmpeg:Input #0, asf, from '/tmp/test.wma': Metadata: WM/MediaPrimaryClassID: {D1607DBC-E323-4BE2-86A1-48A42A28441E} WMFSDKVersion : 11.0.6002.18049 WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000 WM/ProviderStyle: Pop/Rock WM/EncodingTime : 1685772288 DeviceConformanceTemplate: L3 publisher : Chrysalis Records genre : Pop PeakValue : 32417 AverageLevel : 6779 track : 1 WM/Year : 1991 WM/UniqueFileIdentifier: AMGa_id=R 3428;AMGp_id=P 12509;AMGt_id=T 5062613 album : 30 Something album_artist : Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine WM/Provider : AMG WM/ProviderRating: 7 IsVBR : 0 composer : Jim Bob title : Surfin' USM ar

HelloI have moved all of my iTunes music from my laptop to my network WD myCloud ultraBy doing this the the XML files addresses will now be incorrect for the songsI'm having trouble to figure out the XML addresses how they should be laid out for SonosThis is the address line within iTunes<string>file:///Users/markburton/Music/Music/Media.localized/Music/StoneBridge/Take%20Me%20Away%20-%20The%20Remixes/06%20Take%20Me%20Away%20(Stonebridge%20Radio%20Edit).mp/Users/markburton/Music/Music/Media.localized/Music/  This is my address pathway from WD mycloud ultra/MyCloudEX2Ultra._smb._tcp.local/Public/Shared Music/Music/Al Green How should the pathway read please?      

I am a happy user of an old Sonos Legacy system with the S1 app, an old Connect, a Play:1 and :3 (with proper buttons) and an OneSL because I couldn’t find a proper Play:1 anymore.Mostly, I've been using the system to listen to my local music library or Tidal, or stream a webradio station via the custom URI “hack” via tunein. I've seen that a lot of people have issues with that with the new app, with the S1 app, it still seemed to work fine.Until now.I had been away from home for a couple of weeks and when I came back, the custom radio doesn't work anymore. That is, in Sonos. It works in the TuneIn app, it works on the station’s website, the raw URI works fine from all sorts of streaming players.I tried to get Sonos to directly play the stream via the API (x-rincon-mp3radio), doesn’t work. Tried other streams - don't work. Normal, ad-infected TuneIn works. All my custom URIs stopped working.Via the support webinterface (:1400/status) of my Sonos hardware, I found out that a software/fi

I just got the Sonos controller working with Windows 10 on my workstation - thanks to Carl at Sonos support!  My workstation app used to work until a month or so ago. I verified my workstation is on the same network as my other devices that use Sonos. I verified my firewall settings are correct per the Sonos writeup about this issue. I finally decided to call support and Carl was kind enough to walk through every thing with me. According to Carl, Sonos updated their privacy policy in June. I did not know this.Here's how I fixed my issue:On the SONOS app on your phone, go to your account settings (top right corner, the person icon to the left of the settings gear icon). Under the Legal and Privacy heading select Privacy and Security. Scroll down to Connection Security. You should see 3 settings. 1. Authentication, 2. UPnP (Universal Plug n Play), 3. Guest Access.According to Carl  the default settings should be Authentication OFF, UPnP ON, Guest Access ON. All of my settings were set to

Sonos refuse d'ajouter France inter aux favoris. Je ne peux plus ecouter France inter en me reveillant. 

Hi all,I'm Kamal Hinduja, based in Geneva, Switzerland(Swiss) .  can anyone explain how to fix Switching speakers disrupts TV playback? Thanks, RegardsKamal Hinduja Geneva, Switzerland 

Following a network change in my house, my entire Sonos system disconnected, and it is impossible for me to reconnect it.I tried everything, delete the system, recreate a new one, disconnect and even return to the old network but impossible. Each time, the application can no longer detect my system or at least connect. Because I have a message telling me that it has found a system on this network, but as soon as I click to connect the application tells me that it is connected to the system, but it never appears in the application. As if it had never happened?Could you help me please

hi all,i bought my Sonos ace a couple of weeks ago, and update with the new firmware.when i used it with my phone or laptop via bluetooth the sound is realy pretty good, but unfortunately via swap tv is realy "meh " ... even with true cinema enabled ... volume is too low at 60% ( wich is the base volume setting when you swap to the tv ) and i need to turn up the volume at 90% to ear something "acceptable" to my ears .. and no, i'm not deaf.i tried to reset my Ace twice and update also all my speakers system to the last firmware version ( beam gen1, sub gen3, 2x one SL ) and also my ace with the latest fiirmware but nothing changed. 😞 what should i do? 

For four years since I installed the Arc and Sub, I have controlled the volume of the Arc with the Cox remote control, and the volume of the TV speakers never changed, always muted. This morning the TV volume started changing when the remote was used to adjust the Arc (home theatre) volume. I have no idea what may have changed.Even more frustrating and confusing is the TV speakers do not always change. The volume changes sometimes, not every time.The ARC is connected to the TV via the ARC output.Any ideas?

Hi ! My soundbar made a quick repeatable sound and after a few seconds a very annoying and loud sound at about one second and till then I have no sound .i have a soundbar (arc ultra black), 2 Era 300, and a sub woofer . I have a 7.5.1 system !  do anybody knows what happened!  

Every time I connect my headphones via bluetooth for a call on Google Meet the mic either just doesn’t work or my input audio cuts in and out for the first 5 minutes of the call. All the output audio is fine. I’ve checked both the settings in Google Meet and the system settings and everything looks fine. When I connect via USB it works fine. It’s very frustrating. Any ideas? 

I have an install with a Samsung TV, Arc ultra, sonos amp with 2 ceiling mounted surround speakers. I can use the rear speakers when playing through the Sonos app but no sound from the rear with TV usage. I thought I would hear surround sound. Thoughts/help appreciated