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Recently got the Sonos Beam (Gen2). Bit annoyed that it requires an app to setup. An app that demands to know my location otherwise refuses to load. But anyway…I setup the speaker, plugged in a mix of cables to get my TV connectedBeam > HDMI (included) > Optical adapter (included) > Aux converter (my own) > TVEverything worked great. We were watching TV and I deleted the app.Next day, I turn on the TV and there is no sound. The Beam has a solid white light and if I press the Play button it flashes orange. I re-downloaded the app, turned the speaker off and on, wiggled some of the cables… not sure what i did but it started working again. If I press the Play button it goes from a White light to a Green light, muting or unmuting the sound. All seems well. I deleted the app again… I don’t want it.Next day. I turn on the TV and there is no sound. We’re back to White/Orange lights.What am I doing wrong here? I just want to plug my TV into this speaker and have sound. Do I have to

Hello,I upgraded to v11.4 and the latest MIUI of my phone but it doesn’t find my Play5 S1 any more.Is there something I could try out? Adding a new system to the App doesn’t work. Does it it need some particular rights? Redmi Note 10 Pro, Android 12 (MIUI 13.0.3), Sonos S1 11.4: KOMoto X4, Android 9, Sonos S1 11.3: OKMoto X4, Android 9, Sonos S1 11.4: OKUnofficial Linux client: OK 

New Apple iOS can’t find Sonos speakers.  Anyone have a fix?

Is it possible to “tune” a Sonos Radio station? I don’t see a thumbs up/down, but does skipping a song or adding it to your library affect the future selection for that station for me?  

I upgraded the controller yesterday to 14.6 (mac) and now my Sonos Five won’t connect. I have two other Sonos Ones that are connecting no problem.I tried factory resetting and reconnecting. That *worked* for completing the in-app process, but then at the last step it said something like “Your new device may not appear in System; if so, unplug and replug it back in.”It didn’t appear; I did unplug and replug; it still does not appear in the app.This is very frustrating. Any idea what’s up and how to fix it?

Sonos Play 1’s work fine with ALL music sources EXCEPT when trying to play music, or video, etc, via YouTube on my living room tv.  The playbar connected to the tv works, but ALL of the Play 1’s thru the house drop the sound repeatedly. However if I play a tv program the sound does NOT drop, its ONLY when using YouTube on my tv. Is there a fix for this? I see this topic in forums back in 2017 but I cant find an answer or fix. Thanks!

I bought a house with some older Sonos products: Playbar and two Play:1 speakers setup as surround sound for a TV, two other Play:1 speakers each in different room, and two Connect Amps, each driving a separate set out outdoor speakers.  I added a Beam and two ONESL speakers as another surround system and another pair of ONESLs stereo paired.Before I drop $450 on a Port, I need to understand how it would work.  I would ethernet it into my network in the equipment room where the two connect Amps are.Can I just do that and then be able to Airplay through it to the older Sonos speakers and Connect Amps over the network?  If so, how do I do that and be able to control which speakers are used for the Airplay output from the Port?  Or does Port need to be physically connected to an output?  Sonos support info seems to imply that but other things I read indicate the Port can play to other Sonos speakers.  If so, how? 

Bought a Sonos Arc today and came home to set it up. Went through the setup instructions provided by GuitarSuperstar here:The setup went smoothly except that the “Select HDMI Input Audio Format” option is greyed out and I can’t change it to ‘Bitstream’ as instructed - it’s still set at ‘PCM’.  Not sure where to go with this.  :-/

I’ve got a Beam Gen 2 connected to an LG BX via eARC and an Xbox Series S, and I’m struggling to find a configuration that works well for both TV and Xbox content.If I set Digital Sound Out to “Auto”, TV content is great, but the Xbox will claim my setup doesn’t support Uncompressed 5.1 or 7.1. Dolby Digital can be selected but this unfortunately has a bad delay that seems to be either a widely known issue with the Xbox or a widely known issue with LGs depending on who you ask, so I can’t do much about this.If I set Digital Sound Out to “Passthrough”, I can use 5.1/7.1 on the Xbox with no delays, but then I have a problem with TV content where if I pause and resume anything, it takes a second or two for the sound to come back. No delay is introduced, just a break in the audio so I miss a few words and end up having to rewind a bit.Other settings: eARC = On, DTV Audio Setting = Auto, HDMI Input Audio Format = Bitstream.Any ideas where the problem is here and if there’s a combination of

Can Sonos Amp be used to add another zone to an Onkyo receiver system?   Will the Sonos Amp have access to all the inputs of the Onkyo receiver?Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.Thank you.

Hello,I had a Samsung soundbar as well as an Alexa Echo in my living room.  Among other things, I used my Echo to announce when one of my Ring cameras detected motion.I replaced both the soundbar and the Echo with a Sonos Arc, and I have Alexa integration enabled on it. However, I don’t seem to be able to make it so the Ring camera motion announcements would also go through Alexa on the Arc just like it used to on my Echo.  When in the Alexa app, I select the camera I want to hear motion announcements from, but I cannot see/select the Arc to play it.I am correct in thinking that it doesn’t work that way?I searched but didn’t see a clear answer.Thanks!

My Beam does not appear in the Products in system settings. If I add the PlayOnes it disappears. I am logged in. I tried all things mentioned in this post about turning of private network, etc.:  I have iOS 15.4.1; The Sonos app is 14.6 build 68228040  

I’m debating adding two One SLs as surrounds to my Sonos Beam 2.After I add the two surrounds, does this improve the audio of the Sonos Beam 2 by redirecting some of the previous channels the Beam was outputting to the new surrounds and therefore widening the soundscape of the Beam 2?Or does the Beam 2 continue outputting the same audio as before the surrounds and the surrounds simply get extra sounds not present before?Just wondering if adding the surrounds further improves the audio quality coming out of the Beam 2 basically.

Hi all,On my Sonos App both on the Mac and the iPhone I had all of my Artists, Albums, Songs, etc. under Music Library. I ripped a couple of CDs and added those to my iTunes library and then ran the Update Music Library Now function. After I did that I now only have two artists under the Music Library, with the entire iTunes collection is now labeled as ‘Imported Playlists’. How do I get the Artists, Songs, Albums, etc. out of the Imported Playlists and under the Music Library like it was prior?My iTunes library is running on a Synology NAS. All has been working fine until yesterday.Any thoughts or suggestions would be great.Thanks,Ed

Hello, I am having an issue securing my Sonos speakers in a commercial tourism environment.  I currently have 2 Sonos One speakers and am looking to add about 7 - 10 more speakers to the system.I have them on their own separate password protected wifi but guests with the Sonos app are still able to find the speakers and screw around with things like volume controls and pairing settings.  We see hundreds of guests a day and have a wine lounge and bar so some guests get antsy with the music after a drink or two.  Here is my set up: Running a Ubiquiti Unifi Network with 4 separate wifi networks:3 are secured networks1 is a public guest access channel used for guest access (required for marketing, etc). Networks are:Guest (open to internet for guest access, metered, email authenticated)Music (for Sonos exclusively, secured, not discoverable)Staff (for staff, connection to server, firewall protected server)Payment terminal gateway (for credit card machines, etc, third party firewall protect

Hi there,I’m trying to group my rooms and the options, “+” and “Everywhere”, that are seen below are missing from my app. Any thoughts on how to address this?Group and ungroup rooms | SonosThanks in advance,s.

How would we disconnect my wife's iPhone so I can connect my Android to SONOS please??Thank you

My 2 Symfonisks in my home office on the 2nd floor stops playing regularly. The other Sonos devices are working properly. I'm guessing it's wireless related, but I'm using SonosNet and the Symfonisks are not more than 3 meter away from the Play:1s. Another thing is that it’s also difficult to connect using Airplay to the Symfonisks and when it's connected it will disconnect after a short while.My setup is: Ground floor Living: Playbar (connected to router with ethernet cable) - Sub - 2x One as surround Ground floor Veranda: 2x One (pair) First floor Bedroom: 2x Play:1 (pair) Second floor: 2x Symfonisk (pair)All devices show WM:0Could you please advice what would be the set up?

Hi, we have old sky boxes and have been putting off switching to sky Q with poor broadband and also because we heard there were issues with Sonos compatibility. I can see there are a lot of problems on here but a lot from quite a while ago and with gen 2 products. We have the original sound bar and sub with the sonos 1s as the surround speakers in one room and the first sonos beam in the other.  Is this likely to have any issues if we change to Sky Q? Thanks very much 

He hecho todo lo recomendado: mi ISP creó una red 2.4, me puse al lado del router, reinicié el sistema. Nada funciona

I have a MOVE in fam room and one upstairs in a bedroom.  If I want, can I have them play music together, like stereo?  thanks

Hello all,I have successfully added and authorized the BBC Sounds app within Sonos, but get an empty window with the message ‘Can’t browse music’. I am in the UK. I can’t see any mention of this problem anywhere. Any suggestions?Thanks 

Since today, my apps (iOS, Windows, 3rd party, ...) no longer show album art, title, artist, progress bar, etc. when I start songs by voice with Alexa. In these cases, the music is then streamed directly from https://d3rz60g1mtspwx.cloudfront.net and the info set is also reduced. Volume, Start, Stop all still possible, it is only nothing more displayed and strangely different streamed.currentTrack:absoluteAlbumArtUri: "https://d3rz60g1mtspwx.cloudfront.net/usw.duration: 0stationName: ""trackUri: "https://d3rz60g1mtspwx.cloudfront.net/usw."type: "track"uri: "https://d3rz60g1mtspwx.cloudfront.net/usw.If I start via Sonos app from Amazon Prime, it is as before and until yesterday and everything is displayed., it runs over the Sonos network and the info set is completely as always/beforecurrentTrack:absoluteAlbumArtUri: "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/usw.album: "On ne change pas"albumArtUri: "/getaa?s=1&u=x-sonos-http%3acatalog%252ftracks%usw.artist: "abc"duration: 186stationName:

I switched the source of an alarm to BBC Radio 1 on BBC Sounds. It was previously set to the same station but on Tune In and has worked flawlessly for around 5 years. In the two days since I changed source I've been woken with the Sonos chime. I'm running S2 although I've only been on S2 for about a week. Anyone else have this issue?Cheers

I have a stereo pair of nest audios in the living room and i’m thinking of upgrading to either a pair of google home max or sonos 5. I was leaning towards sonos since its not a discontinued product and in future i’ll be able to add more speakers for home cinema etc. i was thinking i’d be keep a nest audio to voice control the sonos, glad i found this forum to check! as i understand it i won’t be able to voice control a stereo pair for playing music, changing volume etc and it all has to be done by phone or physically? and simple things like setting an alarm doesn’t work at all even if it wasn’t a stereo pair?