Spaces & Setups

I work in a warehouse as my job, and as it's a tech shop we use an ex-display Play:3 as the upstairs music driver believe it or not! So, with that nice passive bass radiator and two mid-range and middle tweeter drivers how does it fill the upstairs warehouse? Speaker placement: It's on a shelf next to a cage container, and the area behind it is also fenced off (otherwise you fall downstairs). Basically, the "walls" it's placed next to are acoustically transparent. You could argue it's theoretically placed in the middle of nowhere. No walls to encourage low-range frequencies. Story: I will keep it super short, I love my Sonos, so seeing the Play:3 come off of display for the new Sonos ONE I just plugged it in and rigged it up. So on shop floor, we have a Play:1, Play:5, Sonos ONE, Playbar/base and two SUBS on display. So not too shabby! Trueplay? No. Haven't managed to do that. The environment is always too loud and I also don't use an iPhone, and one of my colleagues proba

If I want to play music in the whole house, I have to group the Kitchen and Living Room together. I wish I could save that group as "Full house" and have it selectable, just as a room. Preferably, you would want to create all kinds of groups. Like "Dinner Insider" for Kitchen+Living room and "Dinner Outside" for Kitchen+Outside area.

Spotify no longer working. Getting error 'unable to tracks to the queue'. Even local files stored on my iphone, nothing works. Cleared queue.Tried deleting account from Macbook and re-adding. please help. system useless without this ability. Thanks

Why doesn't the Sonos Connect support digital input so that you can use it to attach e.g. Play-3 speakers and the SUB to a TV? Every modern TV utilizes HDMI and Optical Output and you can find less and less dual RCA cable output. Yes, the Sonos Connect has a simple mini jack to dual RCA which I could use but I really don't want to try to watch movies that way. I am willing put put the money down for a good solution but it appears that there is none. I fear I have to take back the SUB and the connect. Do you know of any solution to this? Thanks!

I would like to group a record player with a Connect and a receiver with a Connect. Has anyone tried this? I'm guessing there will be a delay. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Hi, this is just more (and more recent) requests to add support for AndroidTV with the Android controller... The main Sonos controller says not supported on my Sony Bravia 2016/2017 AndroidTV. From the Play Store. This was a post from a while back. https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/sonos-control-on-android-tv-box-needs-better-remote-interaction-6734000

I have started to noticed when watching tv and watching videos that my playbar is out of sync I have it connected via optical directly into the tv. all help is appreciated.&nbsp

What a major setback!

I would like to play HD Radio on my Sonos speakers. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to directly integrate a local music source into the desktop app. Currently, it is possible to play HD Radio on your computer using a $25 RTL-SDR USB adapter and the NRSC5 library. See: https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5 I describe how to use this library along with Airfoil on my Mac in order to stream a radio station to networked speakers using Airplay or Google Cast here: http://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/5052 Unfortunately, I cannot currently fling music to my new Sonos One speakers. There seem three possible options: 1) Wait for Google Assistant integration for the Sonos One speakers and anticipate that they will support Google Cast then. 2a) Create a Icecast music server. Pipe music from NSRC5 library to that. Then create a local Internet radio station on my Mac that "tunes" to the Icecast server. 2b) There might be a similar solution using UPNP rather than

Sonos does not specify this and I can understand why - what matter with play units is how loud they can go without clipping/distorting. But Sonos does not specify this either. It would be interesting to know how the units stack up on clean sound levels delivered when compared to the 55 wpc Connect Amp, driving a typical HiFi speaker of, say 87dBm sensitivity levels. Has anyone done this comparison between the Connect Amp on one hand and play units on the other? My experience is that even the 1 units go louder faster than a Connect Amp powered set up does. I haven't the place or the means where I can do this comparison with both running at 100% volume. Has anyone any useful experience to offer in this area? I have no idea of the sensitivity levels on the play 1 drivers, but my limited experience suggests that the 1 has amps that deliver more than 55 watts rms power. If I am not far wrong, that is impressive power delivery performance from the built in amps.

I'd like to see a feature which allows you to stream any audio output onto your Sonos system, e.g. use the audio of the YouTube, SkyGo app or any game you play. That would be quite neat.

Hi I’ve a Samsung tv ue55f6670 and I’m running a sonos soundbar, sub and 2 play 1s for my surround but for the life of me I can’t get it going Dolby digital even though Samsung say it’s a dd compatible !! I’ve spoken to sonos and they said once I added my play 1s to complete the surround it should automatically go dd but it won’t , the tv is on pcm and only other option I’ve got is neo 5:2 , the option for dd is there on the tv but in grey so cant highlight it ! Just spoke to Samsung and the person reckons my sonos , xboxone and PS4 isn’t obviously compatible on my tv wtf ??? I have seen on here about other methods ie optical switches but sonos didn’t recommend this ! Can anybody help ?

I got a Sonos speaker for Christmas and despite hours of effort I haven’t been able to make it work. I’m not hugely technical but not totally useless, but I think the setup probably requires a level of knowledge that is beyond me or my interest in solving it. The shop I bought it from don’t want it back as technically it’s not faulty. So my question is,what is the best way to recycle an unwanted Sonos speaker?

What Subwoofer should i buy to my newly bought Sonos Connect Amp and Dali Zensor 5:s? I have no clue about Subwoofers so i really need help. I dont even know if i should get an active subwoofer or an passive subwoofer. 🙂

Hi, I have a sonos system. I use the system to play music from my Spotify account. One of my speakers have been stolen. I notice today when using spotify on my computer, that the music ends with the notification that my account are used elsewhere. Is it true that my account are stored in the stolen PLAY:1, and is it possible to use that account as long as i don't change my password? One more delicate question is if you think there is possible for Sonos or Spotify to trace the location of the stolen speaker? regards /Thomas

I truly believe that the controller UI on Windows could use a revisit! It works okay, but it is not aligned with the new trends of the newer windows versions - like windows 10. Controller UI's on other platforms like Android or Mac see continuous improvements in controller UI - Why not Windows? While you are at it - go all the way, and make it a UWP app :8 ! Then I could control Sonos from Holo Lens! Sonos you where trend setting with your audio system - please continue to evolve - thanks!

Can Sonos introduce an Headphone ?

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I have a set of old wireless speakers in my dinette and kitchen that are 25 feet and 35 feet respectively from a 55" TV in the family room. I use these to listen to the TV so I don't blow the people in the family room out of their chairs. The existing system is failing and I'm considering replacing it with a couple of Sonos Play 1's. A friend has offered to sell me his Bridge and Connect. My thought is to wire the Connect to the audio out on the TV and push the sound to the Play 1's. Is there any reason this won't work? The second part of the scheme is to wire the Bridge to my router and push the music I have stored on my computer to the Connect and then wire it to my receiver and hardwire speakers. Will that work? My music is stored on my computer in an iTunes library under AIFF protocol. I've read that Sonos and iTunes have some difficulty. Looking for comments as to whether I should proceed or whether my logic is all wet.

I love my Sonos kit but I have to say the new release of controller is awful. Switching content and rooms just seems so much more clunky now, I’m never 100% which room or group i’m changing music for. Switching rooms is horrible too, the place I got to intuitively gives me the option only to group not switch. If this was the app available when I bought my first Sonos 1 I would have exactly one Sonos speaker in a cupboard, rather than over ten around the house. Favourites is a waste of space too, who lists content like that alphabetically??? Allow customisation or at least list the ones used most often on the home screen. The old controller was intuitive and worked so well, this one is a disaster. Needs sorting soon, do I continue to invest in the Sonos brand or jump ship now?

I have different rooms equiped with wall-mounted Play 3 devices. I would appreciate for an easy way to switch the music from one room to another. This is particularly useful if I spent some time building a playlist or selecting a radio station and that I don't want to have to go through search to find that station again. At the moment, my two options seems to be: 1- Stop the music in Room 1, then start music in Room 2 (need to rebuilt my playlist or search the radio station) 2- Group Room 2 to Room 1, and then ungroup Room 1 from Room 2. Both of those options are inelegant. If I could have some kind of "Sent to" function (or drag and drop a room on another one) that would be great.

Is there a program to recycle Sonos products? It's irresponsible not to have one given the business of their products. Consider the first Sonos product I have, a Play:3, required a bridge. With a software update the bridge was made irrelevant. It's wasteful and Sonos ought to initiate a program to recycle their products. Maybe the company has a program, but they should help their customers become aware of this if so. I looked on the website and searched the internet and found nothing. If they want to be a sustainable company with devoted customers, I suggest studying Patagonia's initiatives. Apple historically, despite the recent iPhone battery issue, has provided end of life support for their products.

I have a few Samsung TV's (less than a year old) and two surround sound set up's and both TV display the volume icon when I turn it up/down. Can I disable this? I saw the forum that will work with Direct TV remote, but not the Samsung remote when streaming movies. Please help

I'm looking to purchase a new media cabinet for my TV and Playbar. Ideally, the TV would sit on top of the cabinet and the Playbar would go on a shelf. I'm interested in a BDI Corridor cabinet (https://www.bdiusa.com/products/corridor-quad-width-cabinet-8179), which claims to allow "full sound dispersion" and is frequently shown with a Playbar on the center shelf. But I worry that there is insufficient clearance for the Playbar at the sides--Sonos recommends one foot on each side, but the center shelf of this cabinet is 38.1" wide and the Playbar is 35.43" wide. That allows more like 1 inch on each side. Does anyone have a Playbar in a BDI Corridor cabinet? If so, how is the sound and particularly the sound dispersion?

The headset icon is always present even without headphones and I can not hear the sound on one of the two play 5