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HiI have a system that has Arc, sub and era 300 as surrounds 4 sonos 5’s a roam a playbar and a Boost the system uses sonosnet apart from the roam.Now my old Play 1’s were in a cupboard not been used and I have just built an outside cabin that I want to put them in and now for some reason they are connecting to WIFi and not sonosnet. I have factory reset them and they still will not use sonos net like the rest of my speakers. My wifi is not the best thats why I use sonos net

I have decided to connect a CD player to one of my connect:amp devices.  Are there any suggestions about what to buy or specific things to watch out for when purchasing and connecting a CD player?  Thanks

Dear Sonos,I am bitterly disappointed that you've taken away my ability to play music stored on my phone directly to my Sonos Play 1 and  Sonos SL One wireless speakers. The only reason I bought Sonos wireless speakers over any other speaker was to have that ability and now it’s no more. Sonos has decided to put relationships with 3rd party streaming apps like Spotify and Apple Music over an individuals’ ability to play music stored on their phone. I don’t want a streaming music subscription., I don’t want any 3rd party apps. I just want to stream my music which I’ve stored on my phone for decades. Besides, the music I love does not exist on these 3rd party streaming apps. There is no reason why Sonos cannot accommodate both preferences - play music stored on one’s phone and the streaming brigade. These two things are not mutually exclusive. Why sacrifice one for the other. I have decided thar I will return all my Sonos speakers for a refund, including the Play 1 speaker I bought in 20

On google branded and other google speakers, there is a volume control for googles response, separate from the volume of the device. Is that possible with Sonos 1, or is it just controlled by overall volume?

I am running Sonos on 2 separate systems S1 and S2 . I have loaded Pocketcasts on both systems. Pocketcast plays podcasts to all rooms on S2 but not on S1; I get the message “Connection to Pocket casts was lost” to all S1 room destinations..I have been in contact with Technical support, who gave up.I have tried re-booting Router, removesdocket casts app and re-installing, re-authorizing Pocket casts on Sonos, to no avail. Any suggestions? (I am not a detail technical person!!)

Hi.A few week back I bought 2 new Play fives, since 1 of my old 1st gen Play5 is quite dead.In that room I had yet another 1st gen Play5 and a Sub.Before I received my new Play fives I moved the still working 1st gen Play5 to another room where I have another 1st gen Play5.After some hustle I managed to pair them as stero.1 day later my 2 new Play fives arrived, started to install them, I didn´t realize they are not compatible with S1.OK, so I slit my Sonos into 2 systems, 1 S1 and 1 S2, so far so good, got all my S2 updated and installed, all worked fine.But when later starting my S1 app to play in the room where I have 2 1st gen Play5´s, I got “Use the Sonos S2 app”My old Play5s just disapered.I spent several hours trying to get my old Play5s to work again, I managed 1, the one connected to ethernet, not the other one, could not be found.I talked to support, they told me I had to enable IGNP snooping and multicast, so I did, on 2.4G network.Airtime fairness was always disabled.Dont k

do in ceiling / architectural speakers connect to the amp via wi-fi or they need to be hardwired? 

I bought the Sonos Arc and Sub from Costco yesterday.Everything works fine except the AirPlay. My network equipment is Unifi UDM pro + AP. I tried both wired and wireless (2.4G), restarting both the iPhone and Sonos Arc a few times, and tried iPad. iPhone with iOS 16, iPhone with iOS 17 and MacBook. None of them works. I don't have Apple TV to test AirPlay 2, but I can AirPlay from my phone to my MacBook. Whenever I tried to AirPlay to the Sonos, I immediately got the "unable to connect family room" error. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance!

When I go on the Sonos app and hit browse, I’m only offered TuneIn and Line-In.  No Spotify, no My Sonos showing.  If I go to search I only show Stations and Podcasts&Shows, no artists, songs, albums or playlists.  Appreciate any thoughts you may have

Does ROAM work with 1st generation Sonos speakers?

Curious if the users or veterans of the forum have run into this issue, heard of it at all or have any suggestions to offer. This has been an ongoing issue for 8+ months. System has been deployed for about 5 years.   I will explain as it occurred today as I’m not sure any of the steps play a role.  I was listening to Pandora, paused playback to step away which I did for 10-15 minutes. Upon return I continued playback and the song I was listening to continued until the end. The next song plays for about 5 seconds then stops then restarts from the beginning and plays for another five seconds then the track is skipped.  This is a relatively minor issue but when a track your looking forward to gets skipped its annoying, I guess you could say today I wasnt having it and thought I should seek additional information.This is not a case of songs playing halfway or three quarters as I dont experience this issue and have zero other issues with sonos, overall I consider my system setup very stable

Hi everybody,I’m actually testing a Sonos Five speaker with my Wi-Fi company infrastructure (Cisco).Our SSID is configured with a static WPA3 psk key and it seems that this kind of encryption is not accepted during the pairing of the speaker between the Phone (Sonos app) and the speaker.The phone is unable to connect the speaker (the devices are on the same WLAN).If I change the security to WPA2 it works correctly.I’ve got also a Sonos One speaker that works perfectly with the same WLAN using WPA3.Do you have any issues with Sonos Five and WPA3? Thanks

Cannot select Deezer, only these two

It's written already several times: please remove Sonos Radio from the search results. I'm not interested in Sonos Radio at all. And so do many other community members. This intrusive behaviour from Sonos is simply annoying and devalues the otherwise good products pointlessly.

So I've been facing this problem for a while and it's super annoying at this moment, always that I go from one app to another, let's say from Youtube to Disney+ in the Apple TV, the sound on the tv goes from 50 to 0 and some seconds later from 0 to 50 again but the Beam stops reproducing sound, like if it was muted.And then I have to restart the Apple TV to start listening any sound again, this happens always that I go from one app to another so it's not related to the apps. Sometimes going back to the Apple TV Home restores the sound but sometimes doesn't.I'm using a Ugreen HDMI 2.1 8k cable on the eArc spot of my TV. 

My Sonos Era 100 wall brackets cannot hold the speaker in place. If you turn the speaker to the side, it falls down as the bracket cannot hold it in place. Is there any solution to the problem?

 Hello everyone, I would like to buy the Sonos Era 1000 speaker and I have three questions. First, what is the decibel number? Second, is the sonos era 100 portable or is it always plugged into the mains? And lastly, can the Sonos Era 100 be paired with other Sonos speakers...smaller? THANKS

Hi Sonos,I'm going on holiday in America soon and was planning to buy the era 100's there, so I can use them in the Netherlands. Because of the major price difference, its very tempting to buy them in America. Can I use the era 100's without any problems in the Netherlands? Or is there something I need to take in consideration? Kind regards, Nathan

HelloI can’t progress past the orange & white flashing light stage of a factory reset of my Play:1. When I attempt to add the speaker, although the set up procedure finds the Play:1 lets me add it to the temporary Sonos network, I get no ‘audio pin chime’ from anywhere, so I can’t progress. Any advice?Kind regards

I use my Sonos speaker for my computer set up. When I log on it connects perfectly but when my son logs onto his side of the computer the speaker won't connect. Airplay can see it but it won't connect. There should be no issue as I don't need the speaker except with the computer. Can I set it up to allow the computer to connect regardless of user? Cheers

I have an external hard drive with new/old music. I have amps, speakers, etc. in house and use Sonos. I want to add and organize the music from my hard drive to all of my streamed music collection. I’ve been told I need software like Elmedia Player to play the music which has created stress and dead ends.Why do I need Elmedia when Sonos runs all of my music now? Do I need a laptop,( or just Sonos) when I don’t intend to use it when I play music? Do I need to copy the music to Apple Music so can then add to Sonos? Seems redundant. I’d like to keep the music on the hard drive, plugging it in to my router, or____??? So I can just leave it there.Essentially, want to use an app to organize (into playlists) and play (all of my) music on my home stereo, and of course have access to this same music on my iPhone.  

I use my phone to start HBO Max and then use the Chromecast built-into my Vizio TV to watch it there. When I do this, I can see the Arc’s light blinking, quickly increasing the volume to max for absolutely no reason. I have to immediately open the Sonos app and reduce the volume slider or my neighbors will hear it down the street. When I use Airplay instead of Cast (even though Cast also used the HBO Max app built into my tv), this issue doesn't occur.Why is this happening? I have an Arc with two bonded era 300s. 

Can I connect sound bars in each TV room?  I'm spoiled and refuse to listen to a movie any where out of tv speakers.

My sonos app constantly tells me that it is "Unable to connect to sonos. Let's fix it". This only hapoens with my Era 100, not the my Beam.The app then it sends me on a 5+ minute long wizard in which always ends with me having to reset my router before i can use sonos on my phone. Then in about 24 hours, or if I unplug the sonos to move to a different room, i have to do the entire thing over again for me to use it on my phone.I just reset my router about 5 hours before this post and it was working. Now my sonos app now says it cannot connect. How do I prevent this? What is breaking my connection? 

In reviewing the input to the ERA 300, it uses a USB-c connection then guides you to use their line-in adaptor or combo adapter. Problem is, the eARC out on my TV is HDMI. Am I supposed to try to find a super high speed HDMI cable with USB-c on other end? IMHO using all of the adaptors is asking for issues and compromises the potential quality of the signal. How is someone supposed to connect the ERA 300 to the eARC out on a newer HDTV? I believe wired connections are superior and much more consistent than wireless/bluetooth. Any assistance is appreciated,