Spaces & Setups

I’m designing a new apartment and figuring out the best Sonos setup. I do have a bunch of products but want to do it right. Whats ideal setup for each room?To use wireless only? Or a mixture of wired and wireless?Thanks 

I’ve recently bought a Sonos Beam (gen 2) and want to connect my other Sonos’s to create surround sound from my TV. I have a Sonos Play:1 & a Sonos one. When I click on “Set Up Surrounds” it states it can’t find 2 compatible devices but I thought both the Play:1 & One can be uses in Surrounds. Is there a way to make these work together?

Ready to buy a Beam gen 2 and a couple of IKEA surrounds. Want to make sure that I will be able to control the system volume through my Sony xr-55x93j remote which is Bluetooth and not infrared ( (IR).Please advise.

A few have added bbc sounds, it is not showing as an option for me. I wonder if that is because I am in Australia?

All of my music is stored on a NAS.  Format is wav file.  Ripped using third party software or WMP.  I have a number of Playlists I’ve created using WMP.   When I open Sonos it sees all of my music under ‘Music Library’ but none of my playlists.  What can i do to make my playlists available?

I just got myself a new Sub (gen 3) and I use it with 2 x Play:3 paired as stereo. Wow! What a difference the Sub makes!I am now considering to replace the two Play:3 with two new Sonos Five (gen 2).Question is: Is it worth the investment? Will two Sonos Five instead of Play:3 significantly improve the experience? 

Hi all,I recently purchased a Sonos Arc and have installed it. It’s brilliant, but as I have a very big/long room, I like the front speaker to be louder and bassier.I wanted to check, if I purchased a Sonos Amp, am I able to hook it up to some speakers to it and then use them as front speakers along side the sonos arc?If thats’ not possible, are there any other alternative ways?I’m not interested in having rear speakers; front speakers are more important to me.Thanks 

Fairly new to Sonos, and just discovered that my family members must log in with my Sonos account in order to use our home system. Kinda reeling from the discovery. Means:I have to share my Sonos password with each family member who wants to use the system. Each personal Spotify and other service account gets listed in Sonos for everyone. … (more problems and inconveniences I can't come up with right now)I guess my main question is: REALLY, SONOS?Who else has run into this? What are workarounds? Who wants to cheer and vote for the feature request Support is logging for me to make multiple Sonos accounts possible on the same system?Edited to add: And it gets worse. To mitigate the impact of this issue, I've renamed my own Spotify service in the app to my own name. But in the music library, the service is still listed as 'Spotify’. So it's not even possible to visually distinguish our Spotify accounts.

I have mentioned this in someone else’s post but thought this should be a new post/subject.Since updating the software to 13.4.1 both Connects and Connect Amps are flashing red instead of green after a factory reset.They all do reconnect to the system though.Also when muting the light turns red but I have seen that Sonos are aware of this.Diagnostics number: 554887171 

I've assigned my Beam 2 to the room “Living room”. Now I've gotten myself a Port, which is also in the living room. But I can only assign it to “Living room 2", and that results in two separate rooms. I can still group them of course, but it doesn't make sense to me that I cannot assign multiple devices to the same room. It's the same with all devices: if I wanted to move one of our Sonos Ones to the living, it would be assigned to "Living room 3” now. Is this the expected behavior, and if so, what's the logic behind it?

Hi - I am setting up an new Sonos AMP to 4 speakers. First 2 speakers: excellent sound.Third speaker: still excellent sound.Fourth speaker: I experienced a severe loss of quality of one of the channels and thus speakers. Monaco SPE-82/HQ 100 watt 8 Ohm speakers.2 speakers on 1 channel thus 4 on 2 channels. Any explanation? Ideally anybody a fix?

I just upgraded to the latest version of the Mac OS, 12.1, Monterey and it no longer finds or connects to the Sonos Roam speaker.  It had no problem prior to this latest update.  I have tried all the other suggested fixes to no avail.

Hello,I Have a “The Frame” Samsung TV, and the base / components are far away from the TV itself in a cabinet in the back of the room (NOT behind the TV or near it). As you might know the “Frame” Base station is connected to the TV by a fiber optics cable so the “brains” of the TV can be placed far from the screen. Now, I would like to be able to incporporate the sound coming out of the TV to my SONOS, so I can play it in any of the SONOS connected speakers. Any ideas as to what device I would need to connect to the TV base (that is NOT a Sound bar…?) Thank you!!!!

Hi,Sonos controller on Android will not show the album title when playing?It only shows The artist name twice? See picture below:  This only happens when i play from my NAS disk, not from Spotify?And it also works on my windows desktopAnd it just happens here, was working fine earlier.The problem is on my OnePlus 7T Pro with Android 11 Sonos OS: S2Sonos app version: 13.4.1 Appreciate any help regarding this issue!! Edit: After a bit more research, I see that this only applies to FLAC files? 

Can not get the Sony remote to run all three (TV, Cable, Sonos) components. If I disable Bluetooth, remote will run Sonos volume but will not run Spectrum Cable box. If I have Bluetooth on, remote will run Cable box but won’t run Sonos speakers.Is there a solution other than using two remotes?

I have a play bar, sub and a pair of Play1 as my surround.For some reason it no longer plays what’s on TV when external speakers are selected. This leaves me with only the TV speaker to watch a TV show or movie. How do I reconnect or re-pair the speakers with my smart TV?(If it’s important - Our TV provider is TELUS and we have an OPTIK TV box.)

For those of you who have evaluated various music services with Sonos, what are your recommendations?  I’m currently considering Apple Music, Qobuz, Deezer and Amazon.  My priorities are music quality (High Resolution), integration with Sonos as I plan on streaming via the Sonos app and lastly cost.  FWIW, I’ll be using a pair of One SLs configured as a stereo pair on my office desk. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts after evaluating some of these services with Sonos. Thanks. 

Hi,I’m currently searching for a home theater system and the sonos approach really seems the thing I want. I’m very concerned about the microphone. I really don’t want any microphone listening to me all the time and I really don’t trust a microphone that’s on all the time. Is there a way to disable the microphone or even break it physically? This is really the only thing that’s preventing me from buying an Arc soundbar.  

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I added a couple of Sonos Ones (Gen 1 and SL) to my Beam (Gen 1) today for surround sound with my LG C8 OLED. The Beam is connected via Arc. Built in TV’s apps only. It’s working great for most things, some movies on Netflix sounded fantastic. Tried some demos on YouTube that were good to. But it doesn’t work with Amazon Video, even though the videos I tried all state they are 5.1 in the info and Sonos app report it as being 5.1. Nothing at all from the rear L/R Ones, just the Beam.  Any known issues with Amazon video or this TV? Anything I can try? Am I missing something?

Hi. I am having difficulties setting up my sonos beam and my new philips oled tv. I have the tv connected to beam using hdmi arc channel and have selected the audio out option as hdmi sound system, however the sound plays through both the tv speakers and the sonos beam creating an echo. I expected that it would play through the sonos only.Please could you offer some advice on how to resolve this?

Is there a Sonos device that i can use with my existing (passive) speakers AND add a wireless sub..? 

Hello, I have lost the connection to my sonos connect via the controller software.When i launch a network scan, I can see it has an IP-address. I have resetted the controller and I tried to re-add it, It is detected, but it won’t proceed to the end of the process.It ‘s probably a software issue, is there any possibility or hidden option to hard reset it?thx!

My kid has X-Box and PS5.  Will they both play through the Sonos immersive Beam that I am going to order for my new LG TV?

Hello all! I have a Bose and some JBL speakers that I would like to include in my new Sonos set up I am ordering.    Is that possible?   Thank you!

my Windows 10 controller say “cannot connect to your  system” then I click on from the pull down menu to “connect to an existing system”  after about 2 minutes of circling, it says that “I am now connected to your system”  with a check mark.  When I click on “done”, it just goes back to the “cannot connect to you system page”  without showing the main screen. My system works fine from my android devices.