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The app says all speakers are connected and playing. Usually. Sometimes one of the speakers will not stay turned on in the app -- but in any case, seldom can I get all the speakers to play at the same time. I've turned them all off. Unplugged. Reset all the connections. It is really frustrating. Sonos hasn't lived up to the brand promise in a while. Any suggestions for getting my five speakers to play at the same time?

When I want to pair the Lutron Pico Audio Remote, I select the room where the remote is located (office) and then I am presented "select Sonos room for Audio Pico to control" which presents two rooms (living room and bedroom) that are attached to another Sonos setup with a different email address. And thus I cannot continue because the office room is not presented. It seems that there is no way to remove those two rooms. Please advise on what I can do to correct this problem. I have already talked with Lutron and they have indicated it is a Sonos problem. But Sonos indicates it is a Lutron issue. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hello I've come across a lot of threads where it appears that Modem and Router are being referred to incorrectly or are being used interchangeably. Hopefully, the following information will make clear the differences and help when posing questions as to which device to reference. This information is not definitive so I invite other tech savvy members to offer their contributions. Cheers! Modem: It’s your gateway to the internet. It’s the device that connects directly to the line (coaxial cable) coming into your home provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). A variation on the incoming connection described above is Internet over Fiber Optic (IoFO). Click the link for a mini tutorial provided by Google Fiber. https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6284535?hl=en Router: It’s the device that connects to your Modem via Ethernet cable. It distributes your internet connection to your devices_wired via Ethernet cable or wirelessly over Wi-Fi. Some devices ar

Can anyone advise why it is not possible to save playlists created from music on an Android phone and is there a way around it?

Does anyone have experience using playbase as computer speakers? I have a desk that is perfectly sized for one, it's my little office-corner with my MacBook Pro laptop. Does anyone have experience placing a laptop workstation on top of one? Does it vibrate at all? Does it heat up or suffer much from heat? Is it weird to get the sound from underneath the computer instead of the sides?

Why dont you create a built-in speaker for ceiling? would be easy to install in shops

Will there be problems connecting a Connect Amp to powered Klipsch speakers, specifically the Klipsch R15PM?

Here is my setup. Playbar optically connected to XBR75X900F and controlled with comcast x1 hdmi to TV. I'm having issues controlling the volume of the playbar. I have the TV speakers turned off and the sound comes out fine through the playbar. My issue is that even though the TV speakers are turned off, when i press the remote volume up/down, there are numbers that show on the TV screen indicating the volume number and sound increases/decreases on the playbar. THis part is fine. If i hold the volume up for maybe 1 second from sound completely off, the TV volume indicator might show volume 5 but the playbar will be very loud. If I tap the volume down button very quick, i am able to get the playbar to slightly decrease volume and also get the TV volume indicator on the screen to decrease. However, i can get the tv volume indicator to ZERO and there is still some sound coming out of the playbar. So it appears that pressing the remote volume up/down gets recognized by

Why has the compression settings gone from the new Windows App? I can't find the "advanced" section anywhere! I used this all the time as i suffer from drop out when streaming music from my PC to other rooms, turning on compression helps with this, and I switch it back to uncompressed when watching youtube video etc on PC, as there is a delay when compression is on.... It's still there on the phone app, but not the Windows version!?

I just bought a multi room Sonos speaker system that is great. It all works and syncs with airplay 2. The only room without sonos is my main living room which has a denon receiver sub and speakers. On my iPhone all of my Sonos speakers show up and I can play them all at once. The denon receiver also appears and I can play it. But I can’t play it at the same time as the other Sonos speakers (whereas I can play all the Sonos at the same time) Do I need a connect to be able to do this?

Hi, I am thinking of purchasing 2x play 5s (to act as a stereo pair) with the sonos subwoofer and hardwire them to my Turntable. I know the typical way to connect this to the TT is line in on one play 5 and then connect (digitally) to the 2nd play 5 but I was looking to stay strictly analog as I want both play 5 speakers to play uncompressed audio. Is it possible to hardwire a pair of play 5s and the subwoofer to a TT? What would need to be added to this set-up to make this happen? Sidenote - if this is possible, once hardwired, would I be able to stream the uncompressed audio coming out of my 2x play 5s w/ sub throughout my household with my other sonos speakers? Really would appreciate the advice, thanks so much! Thanks, Andrew

My wife keeps deactivating my surround speakers and subwoofer because the sound "scares her." Notwithstanding how irritating this is to recalibrate every night, I lose my mind watching a movie that is gradually becoming inaudible. She changes it in such small increments that I don't realize it at first. Its like Chinese water torture. I feel like I'm getting the Ludovico treatment in Clockwork Orange; she's killing my one true passion!!! Please give me master user access to regulate this. I can't believe every schlep with wifi access can change SONOS settings. Its a huge fault in the system. Worse still is when my brother comes over, thinks he's captain DJ, and changes everything again.

New colours for the Sonos One speaker are coming later this year. https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/17/new-colors-sonos-one/

I am an a/v installer, and have set up a dozen or so Sonos systems for customers, and recently have encountered a problem. Typically the installations consist of Sonos connects or connect/amps wired to speakers throughout homes. For a long time I had no trouble playing music that is on my iPhone just by selecting tracks within the Sonos app. On the last job, that stopped working. Now when I try to play songs, I get an error message, something to the effect of “unable to play cannot connect to media server because the media server cannot be found.” I have no trouble using pandora or tune in or anything else so far as i can tell through the Sonos app, but get the same error no matter what I try to play from my phone. I’ve now checked it on 4 different systems, 2 of which had given me no trouble playing songs on device in the past. None work anymore. Any ideas? I submitted multiple diagnostics, Sonos customer service didn’t know what to make of it.

Hi guys, If i am watching a 5.1(netflix default audio option) show/movie through the beam ONLY - what audio channels will the beam pass? Will the rear surround channels be lost? Or does it somehow convert it to L,R and Center channels only automatically. Secondly, if i manually change the the audio setting every time to stereo, will i only be utilising the L & R speakers within the beam. Thanks in advance

Hi. I set an alarm on sonos in my vacation rental, but I completely forgot to turn it off. Now it will go off every day at 6am (had to wake up early to leave) at full volume! How can I turn this off? It's in another country, so I can't go there easily.

Can someone please tell me how to turn off crossfade? I've looked everywhere in settings and can't find it. I even tried looking it up but I was able to open the links that were posted on another forum.

Anybody else want this? We use our system for multiple inputs. Currently we have 6 speaker systems and want to be able to define MACROS that set the input, which speaker and the SPECIFICS for those speakers. Initial volumes, balance, EQ including the Sub when attached. This will take the system to a whole new level. I have a ton of ideas on this and I really encourage you to do this. We are building a new house and if this feature isn't added, we may need to go to a much more expensive solution to get the functionality we need.

I accidentally played some music at 100% volume on my pair of Sonos One speakers. The music sounded distorted and very loud. Probably because I have the bass and treble set to about 75% in the equalizer settings. I know distortion/clipping is especially bad for a speaker. The torturing lasted for about ten seconds. Is there someone from Sonos or someone else with knowledge that can tell me if this damaged/degraded my Sonos speakers?

* allow me to access the Information screen from items in the queue, or on the Now Playing screen. * have the Browse The artist facility include composite albums where the artist contributes tracks, but doesn't own the whole album * allow me to access track tag data not indexed by Sonos; ie. Genre, Composer, Conductor, Lyrics, Date Recorded, Date Ripped, Original Title, Involved People, .... If I have taken the trouble to tag my music with a this data it would be good if the Sonos controllers could display it back to me. * allow link across to Artist or Album data stored in public places such as wikipedia or Last.fm (eg. http://www.last.fm/music/Gotan+Project or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotan_Project or the same at the album level) I have difficulty seeing what value it delivers in its current form. ... I have a computer in my hand ... it has an "information" button, but it just seems to a lame little circular facility showing just what I could see already see, but didn't ans

Yes we have guest WiFi, but employees are on internal WiFi to access fileservers and resources. And no one has Admin access to install the Sonos app BUT Spotify has now added a Sonos feature and Spotify can be downloaded WITHOUT admin approval or install password - so the onus is now on Sonos to be able to protect playlists on the company Sonos systems. I would NEVER recommend a Sonos system to a corporate business for this one reason. Clients are here and then someone throws on heavy trap rap and N this and N that or whatever. And now it looks like the IT dept has no control over their employees and or systems and there's no way to know who made the change for a reprimand - ridiculous. HIGHLY RECOMMEND A PASSWORD ONLY SYSTEM. It's been 4 years now we have been asking for this and nothing. Sonos = No STARS. #FAIL

Just set up beam sub and two ones for sourround. No sound from the sourrounds... how do i fix this?

Having had my Beam for just a few days I must say that I am delighted with the sound. The main reason I replaced it was for the inclusion of Alexa in the lounge, enabling voice commands for music & tv, but the sound quality is much better than the old LG sound bar that it replaced despite being half the size and minus the sub! I now wish to enhance things a bit more ( I am truly hooked! ) by installing a couple of satellite speakers and providing a bit of 'fill-in' sound to a rather large lounge. So my question is do I go for Plays or Ones? Will Alexa still work from all speakers easily or will I have to shout at the Beam? I have had issues in the past with Echo devices not working correctly when paired.

I would like to see a feature where you could have any small history of the last three or four things that you Listen to. For instance Sometimes I won't be listening to a More upbeat Kind of music And then I will take a nap for an hour or two and switching to A Ambient spa kind of music But then I want to go right back into what I was listening to when I wake up I have so much music I can always remember what exactly it wasIt would be nice if there was just a small history. Tell me what you think guys.

Remotes not working with Playbar