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My system is experiencing speaker dropout increasingly often. A year or two ago it happened once in a blue moon. It was so bad the other day that I did a diagnostic while it was occurring: 2031394178. I know it is preferable to call in to support, but the last time I was on hold too long and gave up.I play my system in party mode with all speakers grouped in general, and increasingly, I am experiencing extremely frustrating speaker dropouts. I’ll be in a room and the music has been playing fine and then the speaker in the room and adjacent rooms stop playing while I can still hear it in other rooms in the house. Minutes will pass and then one speaker comes back on, then another, and they’re all back...for a while and then the cycle repeats soon or eventually.I have 12 speakers and 3 are wired. I haven’t measured but I would guess that no speaker is more than 25 feet (horizontally or vertically) from the next; I would think that would make for a solid mesh network. I do have a mix of mu

Can I add airplay 2 capability by pairing sonos play3 (already stereo paired) with mini sub?  I can use play3 with the S2 app but play3 isn’t airplay compatible.  Now considering getting a mini sub instead of a sonos beam to for my mini theatre with apple tv?  Using play3 as satellite speaks for beam seems to be overkill for a small living room and powerful bass matters more for me as I use it for music more than movie.  Thanks.

I recently added an era 300 to my house, I have the Arc in my TV room. I wanted to pair these two to create a surround, arc in the front with tv and the Era300 behind me, but the app wont let me pair them as “surround”!.Do I have to own two (2) Era 300 to make this work? 

Had a H/W failure on Playbase. Tech support replaced with Beam 2. Got that working, but now my “older” Play1s and Sub are not found in +Add Product. Restarted the Beam a couple of times and recycled the power on the Sub, but the “Searching for nearby product” keeps going, and going. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Problems connecting NAS to a Sonos Port StreamerI have just replaced my failing Sonos Connect with a Sonos Port and updated the Sonos App to S2 on all my devices.I cannot make the Sonos Port add the NAS music folder to its music library.I assume the issue is with the NAS configuration! But the Sonos Connect worked for many years so the Port should!Would anybody have any ideas? NAS is QNAP TS-119P+        QTS 4.3.3.2211 build 20221124      system port 8080The NAS has a static IP of 192.168.0.250The Sonos Port is connected via an ethernet cable not WiFi.The music is at     \\192.168.0.250\Multimedia\Music I have the Sonos S2 App on;a windows 10 laptop fully updatediPad pro,Android phone, I have been reading pages on the net and in this forum.SMB comes up a lot but...I can't find any mention of SMB in the QNAP software.in the NETWORK & FILE SERVICES section under Win/Mac/Nfs  Enable files services is checked,Standalone serve is selected under advanced options   there is no SMB box to

I just wanted to listen to some f*****g music. Airplay not working and nor is the right hand speaker. Then error 1002s and then random tracks playing.  Latest quality control is a joke. I just want to relax and listen to music but latest Sonos is hell.  Diagnostic 848224247Have rebooted everything too. What a shambles 30 minutes and still no right hand channel. And now my two moves have disappeared.  As I type the right hand speaker has started playing but now a track is playing that is not on my queue! Moves still AWOL though🙄

I have a Sonos Amp and 6 Amazon Echos in my home. I can communicate to Alexa to play music through the 6 echos OR through the speakers connected to the Sonos amp but can’t find a way to play music at the same time through the 6 echos and the speakers. When I try to “combine rooms” in the Alexa app, the “Sonos” grays out when I select the echo dots. The echo dots gray out when I select the sinks speaker resulting in me not being able to combine them. Any help is appreciated !!

Is there a fix for this infuriating high pitched noise? please help!

With spotify I can't put more than 2 different songs in 2 different sonos, with sonos radio if possible, with sportify is it possible somehow? Is there any music service that allows you to put more than 3 different songs in 3 different sounds?thank you.

 I recently purchased a Sonos Arc, Gen3 Sub and 2 ERA 300 speakers. My wife and I watch a lot of movies and listen to music and when playing music the sound from these speakers is fantastic!  When listening to movies the sound is slightly underwhelming but I suspect this is due to incorrect settings.  I have the Arc connected to my Samsung TV  using the ARC HDMI cable into the ARC HDMI port. My Sky box is connected by HDMI to the TV and we watch films through this box using the onboard apps, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The speakers have been tuned with Trueplay and all work yet when watching movies, the Sonos app always shows Tv playing Stereo PCM. I’ve found various Atmos films but it always stays as Stereo PCM. I have tried various settings under the sound option on my TV.Under DTV Audio, I’ve left this as ‘Auto’ because changing any of these settings doesn’t seem to make much difference. On the ‘Sound Out’ there are two options - Auto or PCM. Again I have tried both of these but have

I’ve just bough a Sonos One for my home office which has it’s own router. (I have two already in the house on a different wifi network.) It wasn’t playing Spotify or radio stations properly so I disabled the skill in the Alexa app and when setting up I was prompted with the attached.I’ve selected ‘System 1’ which is now working but the devices in the house (system 2) are now not working properly with Spotify, etc.Does this mean I can’t use two different setups at home? 

Hello- I currently have a sonos soundbar, sub and 2 one sls in my living room. I'm about to add an amp and two outdoor speakers. When I hook them up, should I keep the amp and outdoor speakers seperate from the sound bar/inside speakers? Or should I hook them all together?My concern is that I want the inside speakers to play what's on the TV, while being able to stream music outside. But, would I also be able to occasionally be able to play the same music inside and outside?First world problems, lol.

I am having problems recognizing if spatial audio is even working or not. In my living room I have a Sonos Beam Gen 2 and 2x Era 100 which are set up as rear speakers behind my sofa and connected to the Beam. Also I have a Sub Mini connected to the Beam. The other day before I had the Sub Mini I felt like I could hear what Spatial Audio is all about but now since the Sub Mini is connected I don’t really hear anything spatial. If I disconnect the Sub Mini it seems better but not sure if I am imagining that. In my bedroom I have 1xEra 300. Not really noticing any spatial audio at all! I have done Trueplay several times in both rooms and the spatial audio switch is on in the settings. Any ideas? A good song to use for testing? Do I need 2xEra 300 to really get the true spatial audio effect? 🤔😔

Just been playing an Apple Music Spatial Audio playlist of  new pop hits to get an idea of Atmos sound.  Two things stood out:  a sort of reverb effect with sound alternating sort of in and out, volume sometimes increasing quite a lot and then receding back? Is this typical?  Not sure what to make of it.  When I change to stereo music I prefer the sound.

Hi all!I recently updated my wifi with Frontier. Eero replaced my Arris router/modem. Now, my huge problem is my two Sonos Ones cannot connect to my wifi. I read on here to enable bridge mode. I called Frontier and I was told they do not support bridge mode. PLS HELP!!! TIA!

As i pointed out in my Dolby ATMOS TrueHD test file analysis. There is this weird behaviour, where ERAs center channel is not playing anything at all. Only speakers that are involved are upfiring ans side speakers.This is also true for ATMOS music played via Apple Music or even Stereo music via Apple Music or Spotify. Center channel is just “dead”.Is this intentional or a bug?

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Era 300 has been added, but may not appear in the System tab. If so, unplug the power cord and plug it back in to finish setup from the System tab. unplug the power cord and plus it back still can not 

New Era 100 speakers. Alexa is set up ok if I ask it a question. But it won't play BBC sounds, or Apple Music. I can play both through the App, but I'd really like to just ask the speakers to open BBC sounds without going through the app. Ditto music through Apple.  Everything is linked per set up instructions.  As it's both BBC and Apple I suspect the issue is with Sonos, but I may be wrong. Any thoughts or suggestions gratefully received. Thanks. 

Hi!  I got a problem since maybe the day I owned the Sonos device but I didn’t pay it much attention but as it kept repeating, I’d like to ding an answer. i got a Sonos Beam coupled with 2 Ones for the TV, a One in the kitchen, and one Move.  When i connect to one of these speaker for the first  song with Spotify, it always start the song in the middle of it, although on my iPhone, the song on the Spotify app appears to be at the beginning if I refer to the timing showed on the app. When I click to rewind the song, it starts again the song and this time there’s no problem. I saw also a problem when watching a movie and putting the audio on beam/2 ones and the One on the kitchen (which is very close, about 6/7 meters), the audio briefly disconnect for a second each minute. Any help on these issues?  Thanks

I’m re-introducing this topic because it has been brought up before and after all this time, Sonos seems to have failed to do anything about it.   Both Sirius XM and Spotify drop very regularly, at least twice per hour if not more.  With both I get the error message “Unable to connect . . .” and with Sirius XM I also get the message about not being able to play because of some “encoding” issue. I have gigabit Internet coming to my home and all my Sonos speakers are connected via 3 Sonos AMP’s which are connected via Ethernet cable, so WiFi is not even involved.Any ideas?  Also, with all the complaints, why hasn’t Sonos addressed this issue being experienced by so many customers?

On my up to date Android phone, I have a large library of mp3 and flac files. It is largely maintained in Black Player. Black Player makes playlists in the android media engine. About half of these playlists appear in the Sonos app. But about half are MISSING. Where is the Sonos app looking for playlists?

I just bought the Sonos port and the Onkyo receiver TX-NR696 because it is compatible with Sonos, but can’t seem to get it to work. I have followed all of the set up required by Onkyo and changed the setting  correctly. The set is through the CD on the back of the receiver just like every video I watch suggest. The best I have got is when I switch the line out level to Pass-Through on the Sonos app and it was just garbled noise, but It was the song I had playing… and now not even that working. I also bought 4 Sonos One speakers thinking I could be listening to all Sonos speakers through out my house while also listening through my current surround sound speakers as well. At this point it seems I have wasted my money up buying the Onkyo receiver and all of the Sonos products. Nothing is working like it should it seems.Can someone please help me figure this out… I’m stumped. Scott

I am setting up audio in my office mostly listen to Jazz in that space, it is a small room 120 sq feet. For about the same price I can put 2 era 300’s or 2 100’s with a submini. I was thinking the 100’s with the submini would free the 100’s to do what they do best and the submini will fill bottom end? I dont really like the way spatial audio sounds on a lot of tracks so that is less of a concern for me. Thoughts? 

Hi! I have a question about the connection of Sonos Sub gen 3 with the Sonos Amp. I have a pair of Architectural In-Ceiling Speakers by Sonos install in my kitchen and they are connected to a Sonos Amp with speaker wire.I want to add the Sonos Sub gen 3 to this setup.Can I connect the sub with an Ethernet cable instead of using the RCA cable.1: Ethernet cable from the sub to the rooter.Or2: Ethernet cable form the sub to the Sonos Amp.I understand that the Sonos Amp need to be connected as well by an Ethernet cable on my rooter. Thank you for your knowledge.