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Life with Sonos

Life with Sonos. How do you get the most out of your Sonos system? Got any Sonos tips to share?

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Submitting Reviews

I’ve seen several posts suggesting that you submit reviews, no problem with that, but be careful that the reviews are accurate as many sites that accept reviews have very harsh penalties for submitting false ones or ones with incorrect information. Amazon as an example has been known to remove all y...

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SONOS DO NOT TRUST Contributor I

Sonos Update Stopped Speaker From Working

Following a recent software update, this stopped my speaker from working. I alerted SONOS to this and following correspondence with SONOS. They have concluded they take no responsibility for any hardware failure of their devices following any software upgrade. So beware I have purchased upwards of...

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emanu Contributor I

Sonos Ikea Symfonisk battery hack

Hi, as the move came out pretty pricey I have built one by myself: It runs very well - I am having problems with the oute power down of powerbanks. The speaker uses to less energy when booting up. Kickstarting it with the power cord helps. I will get one from Mi later today with a low power mode...

Wireless speakers
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carealtor Contributor I

"Modern" Sonos Connect?
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Is there such a thing as a “Modern” Sonos Connect?  Correct me if I’m wrong (wouldn’t be the first time or the last) but weren’t there new Connects still being sold just last year?  With the 5 year support rule, it would seem that there was an upgrade somewhere in the timeline to make the Connects m...

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rbronenberg Contributor I

Youtube Music ‘song is not encoded correctly’
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Hi,  I've been having this problem for 15 days at home and at the office using Youtube Music .The system works just fine with other services. I updated the Sonos app and uninstalled and installed the youtube service.    Any suggestion?    

Music services and sources
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A Guy In a Place Doing Things Contributor I

Why Don't You Build A Bridge Component Between Legacy and New Devices
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Your updated clarification, clarifies nothing. Telling people they need to quarantine legacy and new equipment into two separate networks breaks the reason people bought a single whole house system. You claim the old products won’t be able to support new updates and play music from newer components,...

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Rob NYC1 Contributor II

Lifespan of newer products
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If new Sonos products are purchased, how long will they receive software support?   I ask because it was never made clear that Sonos would intentionally cease to support products that work perfectly (aside from Sonos’s decision to cease supporting them).    

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dave77 Chromatic Producer I

Why can trade in products I no longer own?
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I've just noticed I can trade in my CR200 that I sold on eBay last year, after factory reseting it. If I went ahead with this I would be bricking the device I sold (which I won't!). Maybe you should look into this further Sonos.

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nik9669a Prodigy I

Dear Sonos: what can we expect in the future?
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Dear Sonos You have announced that the “legacy products” are limited in their future capabilities due to memory capacity.    With the relative freedom to now introduce new capabilities for “current” products, can you please share with us some of the forthcoming features we can expect?   whilst this...

Controllers & software
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troxxx Contributor I

Scheduling Night mode sound for TV

Is it possible to schedule the night mode sound setting. I would be nice to switch at 09:00PM till 09:00AM to night mode, and the other time in normal mode.

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Gynel Contributor I

Night mode
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Can night mode to be schedulled? Same like on the mobile phones.

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Paul Ernest Harvey Contributor I

How old does a product have to be to go out of support please?
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Having just learnt that my Bridge and old Play 5 are going out of support in May 2020 due to insufficient processors and not enough memory. Can anyone speculate how future proof is my "modern" Play 5 purchased in 2018 please?

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cressy2607 Contributor I

sonos and spotify

When playing Spotify playlist through my system ( 4xplay1, 2xone, 1xplay3, 1xplay5 gen1, 1xplay5 gen2). I have issues when skipping tracks , if playing on grouped speakers, the system stutters and stalls, volumes go wappy, some speakers drop out totally and takes few minutes for everything to come b...

Music services and sources
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Harry_13 Contributor I

Tuen off Playbar IR repeater - permanently
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Hi, I have a Playbar and when I use the app to turn off the IR repeater (it is not needed for me) it comes back on after a few days.  I know this because my security camera picks up the IR light out of the back of the Playbar, and if you haven't seen what that looks like, it's a really powerful stri...

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mgroden Contributor I

removing devices from my System list
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I've removed Bridge and Connect from my system (replaced Bridge with Boost), but both still show up in my System list. How can I get them off my list? I no longer have the removed Bridge or Connect devices.

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Michael_202 Contributor II

Sonos Trade Up credit
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Do I get 30% on any product I buy when doing a Sonos Trade Up?

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ianm Avid Contributor I

sonos bridge question
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I have a system which uses the sonos bridge connected directly to my router. This, as i believe, creates a different wifi mesh solely for sonos equipment and it works perfectly as it is.  I dont believe in replacing perfectly working items just because a company decides to stop supporting them but w...

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RyaKar Contributor I

Setting up Speakers

I just bought the 5.1 Surround Set with Beam & One SL , my basement right now is down to studs and i’m running electrical I want to get two speakers in back of room off the floor, I will have the Beam under TV.  Any suggestions for mounts i will be putting them right by new plugs up in corner on...

Home theater
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UK 2006 customer Contributor I

ios and android apps after May 2020
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As a long-standing Sonos user with 16 units in 2 houses I am extremely disappointed about the May 2020 end of life announcement. I won’t repeat all the points already made numerous times by other previously loyal Sonos fans.   I will opt to freeze my systems in May and am very unlikely to buy any mo...

Controllers & software
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Toffe Contributor I

Sonos sub discontinued soon?

Hi all, I have recently (2weeks ago) bought a pair of the Sonos play5 gen2 speakers. Using them as a stereo pair in a fairly large living room. I am now thinking of buying a Sonos sub to get some more low end base and clear up the midrange. But… When reading that Sonos is discontinuing some of their...

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ss2 Contributor I

Apple Playlist
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New 2020 update will not recognize my apple playlist.  Keeps kicking me off and can’t recognize my library.  Thoughts?  

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kie80 Contributor I

Return Sonos Ones?
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Hi, I'm new to Sonos, having just bought a couple of Ones for my bedroom, and have to say I've been very impressed with them - they sound great! I was planning on ordering  more kit for the rest of the house. However, having seen the recent announcements, I'm not willing to watch my speakers just st...

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SmartHomeUser Trending Lyricist I

ikea brains shoved into old play5

If they can sell an Ikea speaker for 99. Why cant they sell a replacement board for the play5? If they sold it for $100.00, the replacement cost for my 4 speakers would be $400 not $1400.  I spent thousands of dollars on Sonos products but after the lastest announcement, I will be selling all of it...

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scotty011 Contributor I

PLAYBAR - Revert Back to Music When TV is Off
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Hi all! Question for the brains trust... At the moment when I'm playing music (through Spotify) on my group of speakers, if I turn the TV on Sonos sensibly ungroups the playbar in order to play the TV sound through it, whilst continuing the music on all the other speakers. However when I turn the...

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wigginsteape Contributor I

Focus group to address the legacy/upgrade issue

I suggest that Sonos seek volunteers from users to form a focus group, which can meet with Sonos management in order to work out a better solution to the issue of legacy products no longer being properly supported at some time in the future. To include exploration of better incentives to move to a n...

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