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burtelson1
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SiriusXM Xtra Channels

Does Sonos have any information on whether they will be adding these Xtra channels to the SiriusXM music service app? Sirius has just releas...
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charliedid
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Music Streaming for Business

Hi Is there a suggestion and or a list for legal music streaming services available for my coffee shop?
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Caseyfinn Trending Lyricist I

Weird song skipping issue w/ Amazon Music
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I’ve been having a weird issue with my sonos ones and amazon music. Playing any music and when a song ends, the next song starts...then stops...then beginning of the song that just finished starts, then stops, then another song starts and plays thru. If I skip songs...no problem, works fine. Appl...

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hijigu Contributor I

Playing Youtube via SONOS on Android
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Hi All, I can play my youtube videos to sonos via airplay feature. However I dont get any option on Android device?? Help me out here please. Thank you.

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1 year ago
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suryav Contributor I

WiFi Data Usage
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My ISP is a satellite provider with limited allowance on the data usage. Does Sonos uses data from my modem to play music?

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2 years ago
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kdehaven

Sonos support for Hi Res Audio
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Has anyone heard plans for Sonos to support higher resolution audio formats? Am looking at systems for a house I am setting up and want a WiFi-based solution. I have begun reading about companies like BlueSound but, so far, I have not found anyone who offers a complete turnkey solution like Sonos....

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2 years ago
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Pimmer Contributor I

Play offline spotify tracks through Sonos controller

I have many playlists saved to different devices, android phone, laptop and ipad. When I want to play them through my speakers I have to wait for them to stream when using the bridge playlist. I realise I could use a line in connection but if I'm on the move round the house and want to change t...

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2 years ago
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BrianMajor Contributor I

Sonos can’t play podcasts

I’ve been going back and forth with support since I purchased my Sonos Play 1. The primary reason I bought the speaker was to play podcasts but the sonos app doesn’t appear to work very consistently. After selecting a podcast that is local to my iPhone or iPad, I can play a podcast but the sonos s...

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1 year ago
nicka99 Local Superstar

Spotify Connect - why not ?

Pretty much every man and his dog that launches a network streaming device (amp, speaker, link...) is supporting Spotify Connect. Others have also issued firmware updates to make devices compatible that previously were not (e.g. Bose Soundlink) Im a massive fan of Spotify and, as one of the biggest...

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3 years ago
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Sonos Ideas Sonos Employee

Volume Normalization for Online Music Services

Add a feature to support volume normalization on the Sonos System so the volume of different tracks are the same when streaming from an online music service.

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1 year ago
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GeoS Contributor I

Amazon Prime - won't play all songs in playlist
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Hi, im a bit puzzled, I have songs in playlists on my amazon music cloud that work through the app (streaming). When I import the playlist to my Sonos app it shows the tracks icons however when I play them it try's to play the first track, fails then moves to the next track fails and repeats the sam...

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3 years ago
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mir3n Contributor I

Audio with Apple TV 4K
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When watching movies via Apple TV 4K, be it Netflix or iTunes movies, I get no audio through my 5.1 setup unless I have 'stereo' selected in the Apple TV's audio menu. DTS and "best available" either don't work or merely give me background audio. My tv is the LG OLED B7 and while watching Netflix u...

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1 year ago
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ardenpm Avid Contributor I

Multiple Libraries and Users

There appear to be several questions in the forum related to multiple libraries and multiple user functionality for Sonos. Most are currently marked as answered through work arounds or explanations on why this functionality is not currently available. I would like to put forward this topic as an ide...

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1 year ago
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hairrell Avid Contributor I

YouTube Music replacing Google Play Music. Sonos support???

Apparently Google has decided to pull the plug on Google Play Music, replacing it with YouTube Music. Will Sonos be supporting YouTube Music? If not, I'll need to switch to Spotify.

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1 year ago
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Antoine Bell-Bottoms Contributor I

Line-In Latency/Delay Disable PLAY:5

Hey Sonos Engineers! I know this has been touched upon. I previously submitted this request to support and they encouraged me to share here to keep the conversation going. Is there any chance we could implement a soft switch for line-in audio to bypass the computer for "delay disable" functionalit...

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8 days ago
Cantello Avid Contributor I

Tunein radio station stops playing infrequently

When listening to tunein radio stations (several, not limited to a specific one), sometimes and varying intervals, playback is stopped and does not resume unless I press the play button on either remote. Media stored on our NAS plays fine and without hiccups. Anything I can do to have Sonos resume...

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1 year ago
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wenko Contributor I

Interoperability with ChromeCast and Google Home
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When will SONOS be inter-operable with Chrome Cast and Google Home? I am not interested in expanding my SONOS or recommending it to other until I can use SONOS as a "cast" destination in Android/Chrome. The solution of buying another expensive piece of hardware (SONOS) to interface with yet anothe...

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1 year ago
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ptr727 Trending Lyricist I

Support high resolution files

I purchase lots of high res FLAC files from hdtracks.com, but I can't play them on SONOS as high res FLAC files are not supported. Please add support for high res FLAC files: Reference: https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/80/kw/Music+Formats#...

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mjsmith3 Contributor I

Lost connection to Pandora, etc

My Bridge only lets me play songs on my phone or Mac. When playing Pandora, I get the message Unable to play, connection to Pandora was lost. With radio, i get "Unable to play Radio station". All this stuff was working yesterday. Tried resetting controller, resetting Sonos, resetting router,...

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2 years ago
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wolftobias Contributor I

Setting playback quality for Spotify

Hello, I wonder if and also how I can set the quality of the playback for Spotify in my Sonos-system? In Spotify-app for Iphone I can choose between approx. 96, 160 or 320 kbit/s. In Spotify-app for Windows I can choose to check or uncheck "High quality streaming" //Tobias

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3 years ago
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Carlab Contributor I

Connecting CD Player to Sonos Connect and Sonos speakers
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After successfully downloading the Sonos app, completing the installation process for Sonos connect and two Sonos speakers, and being able to play digital music (on Amazon music) through them, I have not been able to play CDs on my Onkyo - DX 1800 through the Sonos system (even though I have tried l...

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10 months ago
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JeffT Trending Lyricist I

Macro / presets

Just got the intro bundle, and I am impressed. I did a search and did not find this suggested, but I would save Zone links as favorites. With only 2 ZPs it is not a problem yet, but when I add more it maybe. I would like to setup say Morning mode for the units I want in the morning and a preset volu...

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1 year ago
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xrated Contributor I

Spotify has bad quality

Recently connected a Sonos connect to a higher class hifi equipment. We tried Spotify Premium and were kind of disappointed with sound quality. Its not that some compression artifacts are audible but it sounds rather dull, as if somebody lowered mids. Not very clear sound. Some songs had also distor...

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2 years ago
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littlelucinda Contributor I

SONOS not playing all of my songs on playlists
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Hi, I've recently had an issue with my SONOS Play:1. I've had it a few years now, always keep it up to date etc. But recently I noticed when I put a playlist on, the first few songs were missing. I checked on the app and sure enough, not all the songs were there. On the artwork for the playlist the...

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1 year ago
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Ro-76 Contributor I

Simple FM radio solution

Hi I'm planning to get a sonos system soon, but there is one minor issue that I have and that is FM radio. I know that there have been threads here in the past on this topic, but I'm really interested to know how easy, or not, it is to use sonos as an everyday kitchen radio. I would like to just tu...

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3 years ago
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edcito Contributor I

Maximum Bit Rate supported by Sonos?

I know airplay speakers maximum streaming capacity is 16 Bit, 44.1 KHz, is it the same with Sonos products? I'm asking because I have some cd's ripped at 24bit 96 Khz that I would like to listen to without it being downsampled... I think the answer will be same as airplay but thanks for any hints..

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2 years ago
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Tootall Contributor I

BBC working fine, and then.... audio cutting out
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So, so sorry to bring up the BBC Radio topic again, but I'm not sure my problem is answered elsewhere. When BBC updated, I followed the instructions on this forum and everything for a few months has been working swimmingly until yesterday. Now the BBC channels cut out, jump back, speed up or just do...

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10 months ago

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