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Edgar Markovic
Edgar Markovic
Contributor I
August 7, 2021

Music library not reacheable because of SMB1

Hello SONOS,

I'm disapointed that you have not a secure communication standard like smb3 available.

Now my music library on the NAS DS720+ is not reacheable anymore.

Please supply me a modern communication protocol.

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    Pinned Reply By Corry P

    Hi @bentriviani 

    This thread is somewhat out of date. Sonos S1 software still requires SMB1, but S2 software now supports SMB2/3, which all NAS servers support.

    If you’re on S1, you’ll need to look up your NAS manual on how to make the changes to the settings.

    I hope this helps.

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    Grand Maestro
    April 6, 2023

    There is no fundamental issue at 800 tracks. As a quickie test I loaded an entire share into an empty Queue, saved it, emptied the Queue, then loaded the Playlist and it played without event. There were just over 2700 tracks.

    I notice that my NAS drives are slow to startup. If a drive has been sleeping the first track might fail because SONOS is impatient. After the drive is awake there are no further issues.

    This could create issues for alarms. A workaround is to make up a silent or zero Volume alarm a minute or two before the actual alarm. This will wake the drive and get it ready for the actual alarm.

    As a further test I added another share to my saved Playlist. It’s now almost 6300 tracks. Still no issue.

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      Grand Maestro
      April 6, 2023

      Just a note: while SONOS is sensitive to the number of tracks and the size of metadata, file size is not an issue. If all tracks in an album are combined into a single file, the library limit would be 65000 albums. Of course, finding and playing a single track would be difficult.

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      Grand Maestro
      April 6, 2023

      Just for fun I built a 10000 track Playlist and added it six times to the Queue. Queue length is now 60000 tracks. No issues. Note that my metadata for these tracks is relatively short.

      I was able to save this monster Queue as a SONOS Playlist and load it into an empty Queue.

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