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I just bought a new place and want to replace a Yamaha RX-A720 with 2 Sonos AMPS. I have 5 wired speakers for surround sound in the living room and 2 additional zones (1 outside and 1 in Bedroom). How do I set this up for surround sound and multiple zones. Can I stream music through the surround speakers.Thanks for your help. 

I’m having 2 Play 5 Gen 2 and 1 One SL - that makes 4.4W + 3.4W = 7.8WLast week I bought a brother WLAN printer → 0.5W if deep sleep - but wakes up on WLAN - anyhow …So i bought some wireless plugs (0.2 W) and turn Sonos off if not needed …But now I loose always my group - Sonos doesn’t find a solution for 10 years: So: Sonos is consuming lots of idle power and is not willing to support power cycles. End of Sonos? 

Hello, I have my music on USB drive connected to my Asus RT-AX58U-DC60 router. I’m a newbie when it comes to directing Sonos to find the network share path. How do I point Sonos to my Asus router?  

Hi,My Roam cannot awake even after full charging.Attached please find photos I took according to Mr. Hayashi’s assistance. But I can’t attach movies. How can I send them to you?Regards,Tsutomu Tanaka 

Anyone updated any idea what it does?

I had amazon alexa linked and working with my sonos one. Used it primarily to play spotify. At some point the announcement feature did not anymore work. I have sonos one, sonos one sl and beam gen 2 connected to my sonos network and s2 app. for that reason i disconnected voice assistant services for alexa to try repair. Now when i try to add alexa voica assistant, i can’t find it in the list of available voice assistants in sonos app - services and voice - add a voice assistant. It only lists sonos voice control. Also google assistant does not appear on the list. i followed many different advices from disabling alexa skilla, logging out and taking power off from my sonos devices without success. Any suggestions what could be the problem.

I was so happy with the 14.18 release.  All the previous issues were fixed.  I did not want to update to 14.19 but the system would not allow me to add any new Sonos one SL until I performed the update.  Now the Sonos one in another room outplays my arc, sub, two ones in the living room.  This updated affected something again for the arc with surround configs.   We should have a way to stay on a firmware we are happy with and not be forced to update to add speakers.  Now I lost the sound I loved when they fixed it in the 14.18 version.

Since I purchased two IKEA symfonisk devices, I have not been able to set the volume of my Sonos Beam Gen 2 correctly. When I had only the Beam, I was able to control the volume in increments of 1, from 0 to X. Now I can only set the volume of the Beam in increments of 5, for example if I manually move the slider in the Sonos Iphone app to 12 it will set itself back down to 10 a second later. If I try 14 it rounds up to 15 and so on - it also does this when using my TV remote 😤This issue occurs when the Beam is playing ungrouped, it doesn’t seem right that I am suffering a significant decline in functionality just because I have two other Sonos devices elsewhere in my place 🙄Any help woud be much appreciated as this issue is extremely irritating!😖

When I connected the subwoofer to my playbar the playbar sounds bad. Thin and just worse. I guess it is because it is no longer playing bass. And at most places in the room is sounds better without the sub. The bass response is obviusly better were the playbar is placed on the wall Someway you can have it still playing bass? Otherwise my worst buy ever. Paying to make sound worse 😂

I cannot get my Sonos Amp to connect to my new wifi with Verizon. It’s the new Verizon home internet gateway and has super good speed but Sonos will not connect and I am getting really annoyed. 

When connecting the new arc works with radio cannot get the doing through tv ( Sony Bravia)

Have a customers house where they want to use spotify app to play music on the Sonos. Issue is they select the Sonos Player from Spotify App, it connects, but when they play music nothing happens, no music, though spotify app shows it should be, when i look in the sonos app it shows no music selected. But if the zone is on already it will start playing. I have checked this behavior from my personal house and it definitely works at my house using the exact same procedure. I have created a new account, reset all players in the house and added them to the new account, disconnected all network devices in the house except for 2 sonos amps(Hardwired) and an access point for my phone to connect too. I have an android, also used an ipad and iphone, all behave the same way. With the iphones and ipads, I can airplay from the devices fine(pull down from upper right corner and select airplay) but not thru the spotify app, has the same issue from inside the spotify app. Any help would be awesome. T

I have a pair of sonos one sl speakers still in the box that Im trying to sell. Im trying to sell them instead of returning them because I do not have the receipt……. any takers??? Ill reduce the price by 20 bucks less then what I paid. But I will not be paying for the shipping. let me know. Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct - email removed. Topic closed due to attempted sale.

Had a firmware update tonight for my TV set. Once it was over, my Sonos had an ‘echo’ effect. After investigating for several minutes, I was finally able to figure out that the firmware update for the TV had changed the settings for the TV’s speakers from ‘Off’ to ‘Auto’. Once I turned the TV’s speakers back off, everything was back to normal.In the past, before the release of S2, I’d had Western Digital change my SMB settings on my network drive, also without giving me any notification.  Just to warn everyone…not everything that is audio related is necessarily Sonos related.

Hi, I bought Beam and Sonos One last week, was working brilliantly for one week with Alexa, but this morning stopped working with Alexa. Have done everything….reset wifi, reset both speakers, logged out of all amazon accounts, deregistered devices on amazon website, in app etc. cleared apps data,uninstalled apps, renamed speakers, etc etc etc. Everytime I try to add Alexa voice assistant within Sonos app, it doesn’t (kicks back into sonos app after logging into alexa, but alexa doesn’t show up in sonos app), but in the Alexa app there appears an offline device suffixed second edition. if anyone can help please, much appreciated.   

I have about 10 Sonos speakers (over the space of 10 years), and now (about 6-10 months ago), I can not connect to any of them. I can see them on-linesudo arp-scan -I eth0 192.168.1.1/24I can ping them, etc., but my android app can not connect to any of them. I should also mention that over the space of 10 years, Sonos has worked very poorly. Don’t touch it; it’s expensive, very poorly supported, and mostly doesn’t work.

I've just upgraded to the Arc today thanks to the Black Friday deal from the Beam Gen 1 (also have Sub Gen 3 and 2x SL One surrounds) and this Arc sounds terrible! It's thin and somewhat quiet, my surrounds seem massively louder than the arc (I've had to turn them down from +4 to -7 just to balance them) and there's just no punch! My beam Gen 1 seemed much better I'm at such a loss I don't know what to do next. I'm hoping it's just a terrible update as I've swapped between 4.18 and 4.19 I've done the usual retune and this thing is terrible. I'd plug my Beam back in but I've already mounted the new bar and plugged and painted the old screw holes... I guess my next move is to factory reset everything, has that ever worked for anyone? I'm all ears if anyone has any advice?...

I won’t buy another Sonos product. I’m tired of having to go through the set up and reconnection process every single time I leave it for a few days. Sonos needs to make their products as plug and play as Apple for me to come back. I have owned my play 5 for two years and in that time I have had to go through the setup/reconnection process dozens of times. It’s ridiculous. 

I’m looking into purchasing the Sonos Beam Gen2 Soundbar. I noticed in the manual that it should have 30 cm of room on each side. Given my room layout, would it be good to place the soundbar on the edge of my TV cupboard, marked blue? I understand that side-firing speakers should have enough room and not be blocked by the wall. I think that if they were on the edge, the side wall (44 cm) would not block the side speaker.  

Hi everyone,I have sonos amp and LG UM7100PLB. I wish to make lighting of my livingroom by Philips hue HDMI sync box. But I read it need Dolby Vision or atmos. Does sonos amp support it or TV? Thank you for answare 

Hi. Just updated S2 (within Windows 10) to 14.19 and now all my Sonos Playlists have disappeared. Any ideas as to how I can get them to show again? (he says, hoping that the years spent building them hasn’t all been lost). The message that comes up is “No playlists have been added to your Sonos Playlists yet”. For clarity, I’m referencing playlists which I’ve built within Sonos, rather than importing in from my Apple Music platform.Cheers,Mike.

I have a Sonos connect wired to my purely analog amplifier (connected to 2 floorstanding speakers through cable).I’m trying to stream Spotify music to the amplifier from my iPhone XS (so that I use the Sonos DAC) but the sound is chopping up (1-2 sec drops every minute or 2). So, no wireless speakers or anything,Sonos connect is on channel 6, router is on 11. I can stream perfectly from the iPhone to wireless homepod speakers so the wifi is not the problem probably. Not sure what is.

It’s all here:Sonos not communicating via Alexa all of the sudden? : sonos (reddit.com)and here:Alexa stopped working on Roam and One | Sonos Community 

My sonos system is connected to netgear Orbi.  I have been using the system for years with no issues.  Now the App both Android (Samsung s22) and Apple (ipad) keep thinking that the system is on a different network.  But I can see the devices are all connected when I log into my router and I can still use sonos via a seperate amazon echo and Alexa voice control to play music. If I power everything down and restart it then it works for a short period of time before again it stops working "sonos and you mobile device must be on the same network" and again my router shows they are on same network and sonos can still ve controlled via voice. My system is Sonos boost connected WiFi ethernet cable to netgear orbi1 x sonos play 12 x sonos play 31 x sonos move1 x sonos  port  

I’ve been on Sonos for about 5-6 years, mostly using Spotify. Six months ago I started Qobuz and recently every song I play is fine for up to 30 seconds then it skips to the next track. On every track I play.I’ve rebooted the router, unplugged my Sonos 5, and temporarily removed my Sonos Move. Nothing has worked. Can someone please help me?