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Alternatives to the Sonos System

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So I've finally had enough of the Sonos eco system. It's just not reliable enough and more often frustrating trying to get it to work than I actually spend listening to music on them.

What have other people looked at?

I've got 2 x Sonos one speakers in the bedroom,

1 x Sonos one speaker in the kitchen,

1 x Sonos connect in my living room connected to an amp and some floor standing speakers.

1 x Sonos portable in my ensuite

I'm thinking of forgoing the kitchen speaker as it doesn't get used often, buying a Cambridge audio network streamer for my living room and getting KEF LS speakers for my bedroom

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nik9669a

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Ken_Griffiths, I’m surprised when I read that the Sonos app is working for some people. I my case, it won’t even show me my own library. All I can do is play their pre-loaded music stations and stations I add myself. There is nothing in settings to let me link to my library and all the step-by-step instructions I’ve found online mirror what the app actually looks like. I’ve reinstalled the app several times too. I’m glad you were able to make it work though!

Are you using SMB v1, @JohnKeating ? Sonos no longer supports it. Switching to v2/v3 made libraries accessible again for many users, according to other threads on the forums.

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JohnKeating

Lyricist II

nik9669a, thanks for the suggestion! I admit I don’t know what those are, but I will do some reading and see if I can figure it out. I’ll just add that I find Roon much better to use than Sonos ever was, even before they broke it.

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Ken_Griffiths

Ken_Griffiths, I’m surprised when I read that the Sonos app is working for some people. I my case, it won’t even show me my own library. All I can do is play their pre-loaded music stations and stations I add myself. There is nothing in settings to let me link to my library and all the step-by-step instructions I’ve found online mirror what the app actually looks like. I’ve reinstalled the app several times too. I’m glad you were able to make it work though!

Yeah @JohnKeating - the local libraries have always worked here since switching to SMBv2/3. See attached (just as a quick example) from an iPad controller.

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Ken_Griffiths

Sonos did announce it too, prior to the App update that SMBv1 and HTTP shared libraries were being deprecated. It was sent out via their App notifications and there was lots of chat about it too. Some users even posted guides and videos how to switch to SMBv2 (or higher) for both Windows and MacOS - here’s a video link for MacOS:

https://youtu.be/kjhKhDuvgDY

There’s also these support documents from Sonos:

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/add-your-music-library-to-sonos

Hope that will assist. Also search the community for other threads on this topic.

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