Sonos introduces New Search

it’s time consuming and a waste of time. If they wanted bug reports they wouldn’t take 2 hours + to file. 
It takes 30 seconds to fire up SonoPhone and confirm the bug. This app is a buggy POS we all know it’s more than likely the app. 🙄

Hi @Multiculti, a good slug of my professional work is around networking and IoT so I wanted to comment on your excellent questions.

Broadly speaking, it is considered “best practice” to put your IoT (aka smart home) devices on their own Wi-Fi network. And given that many of those devices are 2.4GHz only, that dictates the band for your “Things Network.”

With regards to Sonos devices, it depends on your home Wi-Fi and your neighbors’ Wi-Fi. Ken is very much correct that minimizing interference is key to ensuring stable connectivity, and the 5GHz band almost always experiences lower interference than the 2.4GHz band. That said, the 5GHz band is shorter range than the 2.4GHz band which can be an issue if you have a larger home.

Here are some common sense rules of thumb:

• The closer you are to your neighbors the more likely your network may experience interference in the 2.4GHz band. Apartments/condos are the extreme case.
• The smaller your home the more likely the 5GHz band will cover it with a strong signal.
• A mesh network with a main unit and one or more satellites provides great coverage for larger homes and makes the 5GHz band even more attractive. 

I started a related point, feel free to part-take: https://tinyurl.com/29gyuc7p

I want to search my NAS library only. I have thousands of precious digitized  analogs I want to listen to. I want to make playlists etc. on my iphone App

How is this possible???

Searching your Sonos library is possible, but creating Sonos playlists or adding something to an existing Playlist not yet. 
See the other post where I have answered to your question. 
 

 You’re better off creating playlists using software on your computer.  I use JRiver Media Center.  The playlists I create are in the M3U format.  Then in my music folder on the NAS I created a folder named Playlists and put the M3U playlist files in that folder.  When you index Sonos those playlists will show.

 The problem I had with using Sonos Playlists is the limit Sonos puts on the total number of tracks you can have in all the playlists combined.  Sonos claimed 30,000 was the track number limit, but I reached the limit with a lot fewer tracks.  This was with the older S2 app.

Thanks @MoPac valuable point, though I so far do not keep “my” music on a NAS drive, I moved on to streaming platforms the first day of Spotify hit the States and since then have used Apple Music and Google Music (the latter for free with YouTube Premium). Will your JRiver Media M3U playlist method work on streamers like Apple Music?

I do two type of lists, permanent (on going music banks that I latter shuffle extractions from using Apple Shortcuts for temporary, say 60 song playlists e.g. made from 5-10 songs of different ‘banks’) and temporary playlists with 10 new albums each, say I end up with 20 of those per year, save them for about 6 months into the next year and then goodbye. That (and international web radio and music podcasts) is how I consume music. I asked about playlists mainly for the consumption pattern in red font. 

Thanks. 

 I have not tried that in a long time.  I think at one time I tried to insert Qobuz track URLs into a JRiver playlist for my Bryston BDP-2 player because the Bryston web interface Qobuz access was not good and none of the MPD apps that can control the BDP included Qobuz.  Don’t use the BDP as much as I used to.  Now I just create playlists on the service whether it be Spotify, Qobuz. Amazon, Apple etc.

 The easiest services for playlist editing are Amazon Music and Qobuz because they let you insert new tracks/albums in a playlist alphabetically.  Let’s say I want to add the artist-album Miles Davis: Kind of Blue into my Qobuz Jazz playlist.  I’ll start playing the playlist at the last track of the album alphabetically where the Miles Davis album should be inserted.  Then from the “three dot” menu for that album I choose Play Next.  Then I open the queue and from queue “three dot” menu I choose Create a playlist.  I choose the + sign to create a new playlist which I name Jazz 2.  Now in the list of playlists there will be the 2 playlists: Jazz & Jazz 2.  I delete the Jazz playlist and then edit the name of the Jazz 2 playlist back to Jazz.  Amazon Music differs a bit but it is the same concept.

 Spotify does allow you to choose to sort alphabetically but that does not work well for classical music.

@MoPac thanks much for taking the time. I think your suggestion or something like it will work on Apple Music. Appreciated, 

ps didn’t know about Qobuz and had to search for MPD ;)