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Having trouble with your Sonos system in any way? Ask your questions here, and receive answers from other Sonos owners. The more detail you can provide, the better.

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TchotchkeContributor I
asked in Home theater
connecting sonos ray to TV ARC

I was given a Sonos ray by a family member no cables, it only has optical output , my Samsung TV only has HDMI ports, can I use the Sonos optical to HDMI adapter that you can buy. Thanks

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106rallye
1 year ago
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Brett S.Contributor I
posted in Home theater
Sonos audio sync issue

For the love of the sweet BABY JESUS, will you please fix the audio sync issues with Sonos products.  It is a known issue on every community board in the universe.  I spent $1500 for a Sonos Arc, 2 One SL’s and a Sub mini.  They are grouped together.  They are plugged into an ARC port on my VERY GOOD Sony Bravia XBR 55’ television and I use an Apple TV 4K (2022 Newest version).  That’s it!  One TV, One Apple TV and your speakers plugged into a great TV and the audio sync (video is faster than the audio) exists in varying degrees on every Apple TV app: Youtube TV, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney Plus.  All of them have audio sync issues.  By the way, the TV audio sync adjuster in the Sonos App does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  It doesn’t change the sound sync at all.  It doesn’t work.If you’re not going to fix the problem, SAY SO!  That way, I can just return the entire system and try something else..Bose maybe?

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1 year ago
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User457860Contributor II
asked in Speakers
Can't add Play One to existing system

Hi - my existing system is a Bridge, a Sonos 5 (version 1) and 2 of Play One (gen 2). Running on S1 controller as the 5 isn’t supported under S2.Cannot get a Play:1 to connect. Tried via WiFi and hard wired direct into Router and back of Bridge - no go.If I reset controller (on multiple devices - phone and PC) then select “new system” it finds the new component (only when hard wired) - the Play:1 and it works OK BUT the original 3 components are not seen. If I remove the ethernet cable to the Play:1, reset controller, it then finds the original components and all works as usual.In summary, adding Play:1 only works when hard-wired, and only by itself. It actually stops the original 3 components being recognised. All thoughts welcomed!

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1 year ago
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CrazyVeganContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services
Ethernet Port Streaming?

What’s the best Sonos speaker that would allow me to stream Spotify or YouTube Music using only an ethernet port? I no longer use wi-fi.

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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CindyschnoebContributor I
asked in Home theater
Sonos sub gen 3 and Beam and Amp Sonos

hello. We have a Sonos system, 3 Amp Sonos including 1 for the TV room. At the level of the TV room we have a beam, an amp integrated in the ceilings and recently a Sonos Sub. No sound comes out of the Sub, is this normal?

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jgatie
1 year ago
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LindegaardContributor I
posted in Components and Architectural
connect:amp cannot play loud

My connect:amp 1 gen cannot play loud from my Bower & Wilkins speakers. Neither inputs from my LG TV nor Spotify can play loud when to volume control is at its max in the app. The app is set at level10 but the through put is still not high volume at it’s max. Anyone?

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Stanley_4
1 year ago
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Bill PContributor I
posted in Speakers
Age related hearing decline

Like many people my age (74), I have age related hearing decline mostly in high frequencies. I have Sonos one speakers, usually driven by an iPhone or iPad. I find that neither the Apple equalizer or the Sonos equalizer together make speech interpretable. Any suggestions?  Music is fine, but listening to speech on movies or TV is not.There is a large market out there of people in my situation. Are there any Sonos speaker said have more intense high frequencies?  So far, the cheap speakers in my television seem to work the best but I can only get the high frequencies so high. I've used PSAP (hearing aids you dispense yourself) and they all have adequate high frequencies. So I know it's physically possible. I hate to put on a hearing aid just to watch TV since I'm the only one watching. Any suggestions?

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Stanley_4
1 year ago
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TheRamblinManRenowned Enthusiast I
asked in Advanced setups
System just started skipping tracks. Does this matrix look ok?

Hello good people.  I’ve been lucky to have my Sonos system up and running now for about 2 to 3 years with pretty much no problems.  Over the past week, my system has started dropping audio or randomly skipping tracks.I made two recent changes.  I tweaked the wifi channels in my house.  Also, I introduced three new speakers into the set-up.  I have a lot of speakers so posting the network matrix is a bit tough.  I’m posting two pages of it here.  I can scroll to the right and see some additional info mostly all in gray with two green boxes.I’ve gotten rusty on the meanings.  A bunch of my devices are connected by ethernet.  Some are not.  I thought the ones connected by ethernet would show differently on the matrix but that’s not always the case on this one.  Anything here any cause for concern?Add’l info:  I live in a rural area in the middle of a bunch of acres with no one around me.  So no wifi conflicts at least from neighbors.  Thank you.  

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1 year ago
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ZeroMilesContributor I
asked in Advanced setups
Multiple ethernet connections

We have 8 Sonos speakers in various part of our house with an ethernet cable connected to our sub which is part of a surround setup.  Is it productive to connect other speakers in the house to ethernet or is one enough?  Thanks!

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buzz
1 year ago
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JacCathemContributor I
asked in Portable speakers
sonos move doesn’t charge

I have since a month a sonos move. Its my 2nd one. The first one works ok. Thos new one doesn’t charge at all. No lights are burning nothing. It worked for a month a now it stopped. Reset doesnt work, reconnect doesnt. Nothing works. Unfortunately my 1st sonos move is 650 km away from where I am, so I cant verify what the faulty element is, the charging base or the Sonos. What to do now?

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Ken_Griffiths
1 year ago
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tomp1Contributor III
asked in Speakers
is there *any* way of using a smyfonisk picture frame as a de facto soundbar?

Hi, I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this already but just wanted to double check. I would love to be able to use a single symfonisk picture frame speaker as a normal TV speaker, playing out the audio from my freeeview box, fire stick etc.I don’t think it’s possible, is it. But is there any clever way at all?(my set up is that I have a projector and a sreen that comes down from the ceiling. All of my AV equipment - xbox, sky box, etc, is in a little fake fireplace thing directly beneath it and the symfonisk picture speaker would cover it all and conceal it absolutely perfectlty.)

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1 year ago
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Nelson MinarContributor I
posted in Advanced setups
A fix for Samba and Ubuntu 22.04 / 22.10

Several folks have noticed that their Samba server stopped serving files to their Sonos v1 Music Library after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04. After a whole lot of tinkering I found a fix:add “unix extensions = no” to the global section in the smb.conf file. That’s needed in addition to enabling SMB or NTLM v1 protocol, something that’s been necessary for a couple of years now.I have a couple of links with more info and will post them as a reply.

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1 year ago
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BradoshiContributor I
asked in Speakers
No audio output when adding a room to a group

Good evening all,I'm literally at my wits end with my Sonos setup now, we have just upgraded our WiFi router which caused huge issues with out sonos setup. Thankfully this afternoon I have managed to get everything working as it was prior to the router change.  However my wife had just tried to play music in two room. She simply tried to add the Move into the main livingroom group so that the same music was playing throughout just as she has done 100s of times.The app shows the action was completed successfully and that the audio output is playing in both zones however its not. The music will play on whichever device you have as a primary source but the group being added just remains silent. We have reset everything but with no luck. Does anyone have any advice or ideas on what's causing the problem.  Thanks in advance 

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1 year ago
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De'ComriesContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services
Arc & Sub sounds 'terrible' streaming music from NAS

I have my Arc and Sub connect to QNAP NAS with .aif music files but playback is terrible. On the same set-up movies sound great and streaming music from Sonos radio sounds good. Wondering if other people with similar set-ups have the same problem? 

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1 year ago
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HumorsopaContributor I
asked in Home theater
Credits

How do I register credits?

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1 year ago
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brochford23Contributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services
Migrating to new WiFi network

I have Sonos equipment (amps, playbar, sub, Play:5) set up in different rooms of my house. I’m switching ISPs and need to migrate everything over to the new WiFi network. I’ve tried doing this through the Sonos app but have been unsuccessful so far. I’ve power cycled everything (repeatedly) but still get error messages or “unable to join network.” I didn’t do the initial setup of our Sonos equipment, an AV company did, so I’m wondering if I’m missing something.

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106rallye
1 year ago
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Steph17Contributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services
Publicité sur TuneIn ou Sonos Radio

Bonjour,J’ai lu de nombreuses plaintes au sujet de la présence de la publicité au démarrage de l’écoute d’une radio, juste après le jingle “TuneIn”. Je trouve ça également insupportable : d’abord parce que survenue sans en informer les utilisateurs, ensuite parce qu’apparemment, Sonos ne réagit pas, enfin parce qu’il semblerait que c’est incontournable.Depuis qq temps, l’utilisateur peut choisir entre TuneIn et Sonos Radio. Pourtant l’écoute d’une radio comme France Inter sur Sonos Radio déclenche la diffusion sur TuneIn !! Bien entendu, avec pub ! Qqun peut-il me l’expliquer ?

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1 year ago
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BrewbushContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services
How to add additional devices to my S1 system

Hello,     I currently run 6 connect:amps to passive speakers and 2 play:5 speakers to power whole home audio.   These were set up in 2012 so all are Gen 1.   The system stopped working recently so I started attempting to individually connect each one to the sonos system (S1).  I was able to connect one amp, however the app does not allow me to “add another product” to my account without updating the app.  Obviously, if I update the app to S2 (which I assume is what the app is asking me to do) I will not be able to use my Gen 1 Connect:amps ? Any suggestions how to reconnect my current hardware since the app is not allowing me to “add another device”, the option is grayed out and when clicked it pops up telling me to update app or not be able to add anything else. Thanks!!

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1 year ago
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lysy201Contributor I
posted in Speakers
speaker after recent update + no internet = zero funcionality

Hi All, I use Play:1 for few years and Beam (gen2) for about year. Both are on same network connected via RJ45 with disabled wifi. Play:1 has internet access as I am using it for internet radio. For beam I have limited internet connection in router and enabled it only on occasion when there was update pending. Beam is only used for TV so internet access is not needed.So far all was working with no problems.After recent update I have noticed that Beam is showing as not connected in app. Usual router/ speaker reboot didn't solve it out.I have noticed that if I give internet access to Beam it will show in app again. So far internet access was required for online services and updates but I still was able to see speaker in app, change options, play music from local NAS. How is working now it means if we loose internet for any reason we not be able to play local music, change volume/settings, so system become useless. Why do i need internet to switch on night mode for example? Chat with Sono

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1 year ago
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User551321Contributor I
posted in Speakers
sonos amp with first gen play1 to use as speaker for tv

Hello, I have multiple sonos play1 (first generation) in my living room, I just installed a new tv (samsung the frame), the audio is very bad on the tv. I’d love to be able to use my first gen sonos play1 as speaker for the tv. Do I need to buy a sonos Amp? to connect my tv to to it and the. be able to stream the tv audio to my sonos play1?? thank you so much

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106rallye
1 year ago
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KokdjenmContributor I
posted in Advanced setups
Comment profiter du débit nécessaire pour le Dolby Atmos et DTS à partir de PC

Je possède un système Sonos (Sub + Beam 2 + 2 Sonos 1) connecté à un ordinateur de type PC sous Windows 11. La prise HDMI du PC est déjà utilisée pour la diffusion de l’image via mon vidéo projecteur. J’utilise donc la prise Optique de ce dernier pour le son. Prise optique insuffisante en terme de débit pour le dolby Atmos et le DTS. Quelle solution se présente à moi pour profiter pleinement de toutes les technologies audio ? (Ma réfexion du moment : Si la seule solution est l’acquisition d’un Sonos Amp, la revente du systeme intégrant le coût du Sonos Amp m’offre un large panel de produit)

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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howardkilmanContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural
Transfer some of my equipment

I have 2 SONOS sets of equipment.   Each is under a separate Wifi and ethernet sub-net.   I can control each of them from my iPhone using Sonos app.  To change configs i simply logout, change my ethernet on my iPhone and log back in.   This works great.My question is that i would like to transfer one of these systems to someone else.   Can i use the transfer ownership under system in the iPhone to transfer ONLY the system (SONOS components) that is connected to ethernet that iPhone is using?  Will that leave the other SONOS components connected to the other ethernet sub-net alone?

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buzz
1 year ago
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CooljackContributor II
asked in Home theater
should Sonos home theater speaker

Should Sonos make a speaker in the wall for a home theater set up 

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1 year ago
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BatrorContributor I
posted in Home theater
beam gen 2 with sub or sub mini, or arc

Hello, I couldn’t find a similar topic yet.  I currently own a Beam Gen 2 which I am very happy to have. I will be moving in a few months where my living room will be bigger. We’ll be watching movies from about 4 meters in a room that’s about 20 m2, maybe a little less. We’ll be listening to music as well.  Should I 1: sell my beam gen 2 and buy an arc, and in a few years add a sub (mini) and 2 one’s for a surround system? This will take me some time though.  2: buy a sub (or sub mini) immediately and later 2 one’s for surround.  Maybe to ask a simpler question if above is not clear, since I’m actually asking a few questions at the same time: Is a Beam Gen 2 sufficient with a sub? Or is an Arc better? I can add a sub later probably but this will take me a year or two. I also am in doubt between a sub or sub mini. I have difficulty choosing. Hopefully I’m not making this too complicated.Thanks a lot! 

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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npreiningAvid Contributor II
asked in Speakers
Update error 1101 - Sonos 5 Gen 2 - S1 system

I have tried most sugggestions, in particular plugged in the five via ethernet, but still, the update trial from my Android phone fails with Error 1101. I checked the web interface and see SoftwareVersion 40.5-49090 SoftwareDate 2018-01-09 18:10:26.408313 SoftwareScm 371223 MinCompatibleVersion 39.0-00000 LegacyCompatibleVersion 25.0-00000 HardwareVersion 1.13.1.8-1

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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