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Hi all,I have a friend who would like to install a Sonos Amp and connect it to two ceiling speakers.They have already purchased an EPSON tw7100 projector.They wish to use a laptop to watch Netflix etc on the projector.My question is, how would all this be connected up to get the picture from laptop and audio from Sonos system?Any and all help would be greatly appreciated Matt

Are there any updates about how to get a Samsung solar remote to control the volume of a Playbar?  I see from extensive searching that pairing a Samsung remote with a Playbar has been a problem for a long time.  My TV is a Samsung QN75Q7FAAFXZA  if that makes a difference.  it runs eARC and doesn’t have an optical output so I’m using a converter to connect the TV to the Playbar.  This setup worked when I was using a Xumo remote and Xumo box.  I eliminated the box because it isn’t needed to run the TV.

I’m honestly stunned we’re still having this conversation in 2025. People here have dropped over $3,000 on Sonos gear, and yet we still don’t have a proper in-app EQ that lets us actually personalize our sound. No parametric EQ, no real control, nothing beyond the same basic sliders we’ve had for years.And let’s be clear: the kind of customers who buy Sonos aren’t casual listeners. We care about accuracy, detail, tuning. We bought into the ecosystem because we expected a company that takes audio seriously. But the total absence of a real equalizer shows the opposite a lack of seriousness, a lack of respect for your most loyal customers.Honestly, this is reflected in the stock price too. You can see the loss of confidence right there on the market. And you feel it here, every time someone brings up a legitimate criticism. The moment you don’t shower Sonos with praise, there’s suddenly an army of “regular users” swarming you, shutting down the conversation, acting like insiders hiding be

Apologies for the longish title but there are a lot of threads discussing speakers dropping, but none seemed exactly like mine. I love my Sonos system but ran into connection issues when I changed my WiFi from Xfinity cable to an ATT Fiber Router and added two Eero 6+ mesh devices to get signal around my house. While I’m not an IT expert, so excuse any naming errors, I am not afraid to try things out.My system: S2 app, Play 1 gen 1 & Sub Gen 3 (Grouped), Amp (Outdoor Speakers), Arc Ultra (TV), and Boost (now offline). Everything is wireless, no direct connections after dropping the Boost. My Issue: After connecting everything, which took a while, the Arc Ultra kept getting dropped. If it connected, then either the Amp or the Grouped Play 1s or Sub would get dropped. I could see all of the devices in ATT Gateway Router (Nokia) and on my Eero app. After researching the issue, I think that there were conflicts with the wifi bands and wifi sources. The speakers were connecting to the A

My wife and I have separate Sonos and separate Qobuz (Duo) accounts. I have linked the relevant Sonos and Qobuz accounts on different mobile phones. We can send music to the Sonos speakers as would be expected, but my wife continues to see and add to my Qobuz music, playlists, etc and is unable to make her own separate music lists. We are also unable to play different music on different speakers (which is a pain if one of us is watching TV through the Arc). Is there a solution to this? 

Why does Sonos have a maximum of 32 Sonos devises in one home? Is there a not so cumbersome work around? 

The Sonos app only works on three of my four Apple devices (three iPhones, one ipad). Is there a limit of three devices?

First of all, sorry because English is not my language. I hope to express my feedback correctly. Also I’m new in Sonos, so perhaps I missed something…I’ve spent a small fortune in my living room set up with an Arc, a Sub and two Era 300. After that I was anxious to test Dolby Atmos music, so I replace Spotify first to Apple and then to Amazon music. First shock, when I realised that AirPlay is not able to play in Dolby qality, so the Sonos app use is now mandatory if you want to get all the features you pay for… and then a nightmare starts:You can’t play next or previous song from the blocked screen of your phone. Now I have to unlock the mobile every time I want to change a song. That’s not the way I used to play music before! You can’t change the volume with the mobile buttons. And it’s even more annoying as it’s a common need when you’re listening music. Songs jump when I’m using Apple Music through the Sonos app. Not always, but every 20 or 40 minutes you have a glitch. Same feelin

I have spent an hour and a half trying to reconnect my Play 5 gen 2 to my system. I use the s1 app and I used to be able to group my Play 5 gen 1 and gen 2 together. I can only connect the Play 5 gen as ‘living room’. My Play 5 gen 2 shows as ‘bedroom two’ only for the upgrade offer.  I spent an eternity trying to login I changed my pw 5 times none were accepted. I got cut off from the help line 4 times but someone did finally manage to make my pw work finally before I got cut off. I did every reset that I could sometimes more than once . They kept asking for my phone number but didn’t use it so what was the point? I gave up in the end it’s still not working, it used to so I can only think it is the new s 1 app that upgraded whilst I was being forced to repeatedly login! I don’t like complaining and I love the sound of the speakers when they are working so it is very depressing that a simple thing that worked before will no longer work. 

Hi, is it possible to use my setup (2x Era 100, 2x Era 300 and 1x sub mini) for surround? I would use the era 300 as rear speakers and the era 100 in the front. Does that work out?

I have a Music Library  on a USB drive formatted as NTFS and named ‘MusicLib’, attached in the back of a TP-Link Archer BE550 router. Windows media player can access this shared drive from my Windows desktop without a problem.However, my Sonos system (Beam + One SL) is refusing to see this drive giving an error message “//192.168.0.1/MusicLib is no longer available”.Sonos can access a shared music folder on my QNAP NAS without a problem.Sonos can see and access music files on my desktop without a problem.I don’t particularly want to keep the NAS drive or desktop powered up continuously so that  I can listen to my music, where as the router is permanently ON so having an accessible USB drive attached would be very convenient.Any suggestions for a solution?I should really praise SONOS technical support for spending 90 minutes troubleshooting but could not solve the issue.ThanksElgreco

From yesterday I am unable to play radio or music through my Sonos system . TV audio is fine . I have all the rebooting etc (twice) but it still comes up with service account not available???? I’ve checked all my details 

Hello Everyone,New to the forum and I have some issues that some tech guys like me might be able to help with.I'm the Network Administrator for a small junior college. Our athletics program recently purchased to two Era 300 speakers. I am struggling to keep them connected to our WLAN/SSID and using the app to be able to communicate with them.I want to ensure that its not the networking side that the issue.My question: anyone else on here who uses a Cisco 9800 WLC that would be willing to share there configuration of their WLAN/Policy/RF tags?I've looked over the documentation on Sonos support website and it does not seem like they need anything special compared to other IOT devices. Thank for any help in advance!

After many months of frustration periodically trying to restore S2 controller access to my local Apple Music library and collection of FLAC on a (wired) external drive, I finally got both working about a month ago. What a relief...But, sometime in recent weeks (maybe days) both stopped working. I’m getting all the old error messages about Sonos not having access. I don’t think this corresponds to a MacOS update (currently Sequoia 15.7.1) or a Sonos Controller update (currently 17.2 build 9006717), but I’m not sure.I really don’t want to restart the process of trying to reconnect these music libraries. It seemed very flakey no matter what instructions I followed. I’m hoping someone knows of a specific potential cause for this, so I can resolve it with minimal trial and error.P.S. Through all of this (1+ years), Sonos has streamed music to my speakers just fine.P.P.S. I highly recommend the MacOS menu bar controller from Lyd. It is better in every respect than other ways I’ve tried for q

I have finally hit the end of my rope with Sonos Connect. The whole system was about to go down the chute when someone said, “No! Wait! The Sonos Amp is what you really need for your turntable!” (OK he said “...need for your vinyls” but, you know...)That’s a lot of scratch when I already have a phono amp. So I was looking at the Sonos Port.Which is also a lot of scratch.And is black - when all my other Sonos gear is white.But my real question is:Is the Port indeed materially better than the Connect?  It’s expensive - how soon before the next generation improvement is released?

Hi everyone,I'm trying to set up two Symfonisk speakers as surrounds for my Sonos Beam (Gen 2), but the app won’t let me complete the setup.Both speakers are visible in the Sonos app and work fine individually. When I try to add them as surrounds, it's working but after i have in the app for Symfonisk surrounds Not connected statusAny idea what could cause that?Thanks for the help!

How many external devices (i.e. LP player and CD Player) can I connect to a Sonos Amp or Port? Can I connect both to one device and if so whioch one do I need?

I recently replaced my Amazon Echo with an Era 100, and have been very disappointed with its detection of the Alexa wake word.On the Echo, I could be anywhere in the room, and say “Alexa, do X” at any volume level, even a whisper, and it would hear me. However, with the Era 100, we are regularly having to repeat ourselves, as it fails to detect us saying “Alexa”. I find we have to be standing directly in front of the Era, say “Alexa” firmly, pause briefly and then state my command, for it to work. But even knowing that, it still takes us multiple attempts to stop a timer going off as it never seems to hear “Alexa, stop” the first time we say it.Do others have the same experience? Or could our Era be faulty?

Hello:Everyone should know by now that Sonos can be susceptible to wireless interference from any number of sources/devices such as: Microwave ovens Baby Monitors Crowded Wi-Fi neighborhoods Wi-Fi appliances Security Systems CamerasTherefore, one way to mitigate the interference is to have a stable network. However, I’m not going to discuss network configurations as that’s a subject for another time. I’m sure you can find any number of discussions on networks in this community.What I do want to discuss is Steaming Apple Music Lossless. Many have complained about stuttering, songs stopping abruptly and/or skipping to the next or worst-case scenario the music just STOPS! The above seems to be more prevalent Streaming Apple Music Lossless when several rooms are grouped. As a side-note Sonos is very chatty on its own and can tax a network. Grouping several rooms can compound the issue of taxing a network as doing so requires more buffering to keep the stream going across multiple rooms.Get

I’m trying to play music from Spotify in ‘Lossless’ quality on my Sonos Amp via Spotify Connect, but the option doesn’t appear. In the Spotify app, it shows (for the Sonos Amp): "This device currently supports streaming qualities up to 'Very high'." "This device is not compatible with lossless audio quality. To listen in lossless, try changing your device." I’ve tried connecting via both mobile and desktop (Mac) Spotify apps and have already followed Spotify’s official “Listen in lossless” steps (https://support.spotify.com/uk/article/spotify-connect/).Has anyone successfully played Spotify Lossless on a Sonos Amp via Spotify Connect, or is this a known limitation? Any advice or workarounds would be appreciated! 

Hi all.  Gen1 play5, play 1 and a bridge.2 weeks ago Sonos S1 cannot connect to system.  Full reset to everything.Still would not find Bridge (always had ethernet cable to bridge).Will find play 5 when I connect play5 to ethernet cable.  Also then sees play 1 but not bridge.Happy to play music at this point.App then falls over when we move to wifi connection.Any ideas? Have Sonos decided 10years is enough and they want more£?

Will it work with mini sub ?

Hello guys, I am very sorry for this topic i am a first time sonos user and it is been asked many many times but i hope there is a solution that is so easy that i can understand. Other users on our wifi network can open the sonos app and look for devices and can control everything.I dont like that and i dont want that because it is a student house and i think,no i know they are gonne play with it on moments i dont like. I have read that I can do it with a seperate router, so i have to connect the amp to that router.        Do I have to put the live internet cable in the wan or lan port of that router and wont i get problems with the other internet system and routers because of ip or subnet settings?                                       I Dont have acces to the provider router thats the main wifi and cabled internet.And does have the amp acces to the network to play spotify.(because when it is in that network it is detectable or is that theory false. Or are there other easy solutions.

As deep as I dive in Sonos world, more issues I’m finding. I hope this one is just a settings mistake or a SW easy-to-solve topic. Although reading some posts from 2 years ago, I’m really scared.Since I started to use SVC a couple of days ago, (to skip the missing of control with the phone locked), I’ve figured out that the mic turns off randomly so, when you try to speak with Esposito, there is nobody there.I’ve read the manual trying to find what I am doing wrong. Then, I reinstall the SVC in Arc thinking it could solve it. But the result is still the same, the mic switches off constantly. But I can’t believe a hardware issue is not fixed 2 years before…. Or even worst, that Sonos is sending old bars or damaged ones knowing that.I’ll call support this evening or tomorrow, because that’s the recommendation of Sonos’ staff, but just to know if somebody finally solved it or have some advice.Thanks!