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I had a birthday party at my house yesterday.During the evening people asked me to put on music that was not in my free services choices. (You have to pay to listen to quality music on Sonos), so instead of subscribing again and again I decided to go to my computer and transfer all my music to folders on my smart phone (android galaxy s20 updated).This is where the problem comes in... I open my Sonos app (because nothing works without it) and... it can't even find my music files.Imagine that Sonos lists everything according to its taste and in its own way, so that it is impossible to find each other.So I have 2 choices left according to Sonos APP, either press SONGS FOLDER and everything will play pell-mell or select manualy each song after the other on the thousands of useless folders that Sonos has created for me.I tested on the SONOS PC version and everything works fine but not on the mobile app. But it was too late...(See screenshot) https://ibb.co/CQzrZDFHere is the only way I fou

I've been a big fan of Sonos Radio HD since i started my trial and couldn't bring myself to cancel. It just sounds so great, and the station options are great so far; but I can't figure out how we don't have a Bollywood music station yet, or any Indian music at all, really. This seems like an obvious oversight; it's kind of a low-hanging fruit that would be a big crowd-pleaser. Do we just need to throw suggestions out there? (If this isn't the best forum for station ideas, I'd love to be pointed in the right direction.) On a more heartfelt note, the Metal music selection leaves so very much to be desired for fans of the more Nordic Metal styles. I think you could do quite well with a Swedish Death Metal station, or generally Nordic if you want to catch more content. The metal that is on Sonos Radio so far is just absolutely nothing like what I look for in metal music. I would call it more hard rock than anything, but I know I'm biased on that regard. And that's fine, but if you're look

Just wanted to say I will never buy another Sonos product. With all the tech updates and going through wifi, it is far too frustrating to just get the damn speaker to just work. With all the other over-wifi tech solutions out there…..happy to say I CAN NOT WAIT TO SWITCH!!!!! 

We have two Sonos surround set-ups, one we use much more than the other, and I’m wondering whether to reconfigure to maximise the sound quality of the one we use most.  Current set-up: Room 1: Playbar and 2 x Play:3 Room 2: Beam, 2 x One, Sub We use room 2 far more than room 1. We’ve already moved the sub, which was originally in room 1.  But now I’m wondering whether also to swap the surrounds. Swapping the sound bars themselves would be more hassle so I’m disinclined to do that. I care mostly about music playback, and have the surrounds in ‘full’ mode, but improvements to TV sound would also be nice. On the face of it, “three” is better than “one”, right? So I’d assume swapping the surrounds would improve room 2.  But… given there’s already a sub in room 2, does that render some of the Play:3’s advantages redundant?  Similarly, the Play:3 is older tech than the One. Does that matter?  Finally, I don’t want to completely ruin room 1 so if downgrading the surrounds there will make thin

Hi guys, I’m going to get a Sonos soundbar and I also have to change my old tv. The matter is that it looks like Sonos soundbars can’t work with any tv, as allo the models I’m considering (above all LG C1 and Samsung QN90A) have many compatibility issues with Sonos.So I would like to understand.. which tv will work for sure with Sonos sonundbars? Any suggestions?

I have 2 Roam and they both have issues connecting to bluetooth and have never been able to get them to find the wifi. These are terrible. We have done all the troubleshooting. Anyone have this issue and find a trick where you don’t have to re- set up 10 times to use them? 

Hi,  I want to ask you, yesterday connected Sonos ARC to my Philips Oled, very easily achieved Dolby Atmos from TV to Soundbar. At this moment ARC is standalone (without Surround and sub).  And What i noticed:  Movie - very good quality - everything is fine - bass more then enough for my needs, surrounds effects quite well. (it this situation i plan to add only Sonos One as a surround speakers without sub)   Youtube music from TV - the same as above - bass is very good for me and sound quality more then good. At evening sound volume - ~25% is enough.  Music from S2 app with TV off - very disappointing -- no bass - flat sound, I’m not sure is it better then my Sonos One sound . I need to increase volume to 50% to fill the room (from youtube i need only 25%)I little better when playing form local media then from Spotify but still have some doubts.    So Hardware is ok - plays very good but why i notice this loss of bass and quality using Spotify or playing from S2 - and why i need to inc

At the moment it takes 30mins for the Roam to completely switch off and I’ve measured that the battery drains about 4% while waiting for the battery saver to work.  I would like the option to reduce this to 5mins or even make it immediate in the Sonos app. This should not be difficult to implement!Thank you!

Hi therei’ve moved into a new house which had Russound multi room previously which fed various zones from a central multi room player under the lounge TVthe ceiling speakers and speaker cables are still in place in the various rooms but the speaker connectors are unfamiliar to me with a four wire configuration (red,white,green and black)can I connect my Sonos amp(s) to these speakers to resurrect the zones, if so how should the cables be matched to the amp?thanks  

Well, I'm not sure if I'm just lucky, or not. I got a Sonos arc, + a pair of one sl's. Grouped them together. Added the amp, and connected my subs to the RCA output. Working just lovely. No delays, no lip sync issues, nothing. Yes, I do need to adjust the level periodically, depending on content and hardware. I get full atmos thru my panasonic JZ 2000 OLED. I must say, the sound is simply stunning. I see why Sonos has the following that it does. Thanks! 

Hi, I got a MOVE speaker last summer and I am very happy for it. Now I would like to implement a home theather system with my new LG smart TV OLED and I would like to know if I can connect the MOVE speaker with a sound bar together with a second different model speaker. Could somebody give me a suggestion? Thanks.

I have a 50” Samsung TV, with Sonos Beam linked to it. It’s in a large room, wall-mounted. When watching TV, the Beam is adequate. But sometimes in the evening, I end up using the room for entertaining, and playing music videos via YouTube.When watching/listening to music on the TV, the sound isn’t really up to it. I have a high-end hi-if in the same room, but it’s not situated in a convenient spot to link the TV to it.I’ve been researching some different Sonos add-ons, and the obvious move seemed to be to add a couple of SL’s. Thing is, I’m not really looking for a surround sound effect, moreso just a generally boosted sound quality & volume. I trialled the SL in a local shop, and found the sound quality a bit underwhelming. The Five however, sounded great. So the obvious (to me) move seems to be to add a pair of Fives into the room, to link wirelessly to the Beam, to boost the sound in the room.Anyone using this combo in this way ? Any reason why it won’t do what I’m looking for

HiThought I would create this thread as a few have reported this issue in the lpcm update threads that are marked as solved so perhaps best to keep it separate.Issue:Before the LPCM update last week my sonos arc would receive atmos and Dolby digital 5.1 from the Apple tv 4k box, audio settings were set to the default AUTO-Atmos available.My LG CX is capable of passing LPCM. Now since the LPCM update with the above settings I still get atmos from apps such as netflix, apple tv + on the apple 4k box, but any content in dolby 5.1 is now outputting as multichannel PCM 7.1, 7.1 being the issue, it should be outputting as multichannel PCM 5.1 I have seen similar posts with this issue on the same device and other devices as well. Thank you 

I’ve been running a split system since S2 was a thing, with only a couple of S2 devices and everything else staying on S1. Following spousal feedback (after some S2-only devices became popular with her) I decided to finally switch everything I could to S2.I didn’t to the general “update my whole system” because I had an existing S2 household plus I wanted absolute control over which devices went where, so I started by printing a spreadsheet of all my gear (names, ip addresses, serial #s etc) generated by one of my apps. I then went around the house to each up-gradable device, factory reset it, added it to my existing S2, then renaming it to the proper thing.I have to say the process is damn smooth. Even crusty old devices support the custom-wifi method now, which is impressive. Near the end I realized that switching my Boost would disconnect my remaining S1 devices, so first I switched those over to WiFi, then switched the Boost over to S2. Hardest part was finding the damn button on t

So, when Android users are going to get feature parity with iOS users?It's been a long time since Airplay 2 was implemented and so far nothing on Chromecast. Only Spotify (thanks to Spotify Connect) allows Android users to cast directly from the app, no other app can do it.Why the preferential treatment if Sonos charge the same to everyone? Is it because Sonos executives use iOS devices or what? The Sonos app is bad for everything but configuring the devices and it shouldn't be forced down the throat of customers to replace their chosen service app, it's user hostile and breaks usability.

How expensive can it be to put up for sale a usb C microphone with the optimal characteristics to do trueplay from any android or ios device. a super compact microphone that fits perfectly in a small usb type c.Wouldn't that be easier than having to borrow an ios device.This is advice for Sonos. There are many users who cannot take 100% advantage of their Sonos speakers due to an insistence that trueplay can only be used with IOS.If we see how long the trueplay takes for the new ipads, the 4th generation air does not even have the 5th generation ipad mini and 1 year after its release.

As per the title really. I have a server running Airsonic (advanced) in Docker and finally pieced together how to get it to interact directly with the Sonos ecosystem. It’s much snappier than simplying “adding a folder” from my NAS or workstation. This should be extremely similar for subsonic, madsonic etc.Let me know if any questions:https://www.thesmarthomebook.com/2022/04/04/add-an-airsonic-music-server-to-sonos/

Hi, I currently have a beam gen 2 with 2 rear symfomisks, an LG C1 and an RTX 3080 and am looking for the proper settings to use in windows. I’ve been using the Dolby Access app to setup Dolby atmos and have been using that as my sound configuration in windows. my question is regarding the channel phantoming option in windows sound enchantments. Should this option be enabled for this setup? The fact that Dolby access defaults it to enabled makes me believe that it should be on but am unsure as I’ve found some games don’t always work with this option on. 

HiI am planning to get my mum a birthday gift of a Sonos soundbar/base for her telly.She has a small TV (40ins) with a center stand on an old pine corner unit. She lives in a small apartment and would use this to just watch telly and films. She would not be interested in getting surrounds or a sub but has a couple of other Sonos speakers that she uses for music.I have £250 to spend and on Ebay, I could get either the Beam gen 1 or the Playbase. Her telly has both optical and ARC but does not support Atmos.Which do you think would be the best all rounder?

Unfortunately my Playbase got short circuit because some ants inside it.Can somebody tell me how to fix the power supply main board or where can I get the main board replacement and how much.Thanks 

We use Sonos to broadcast music throughout our 184 year old restaurant. The speakers were a great purchase with wonderful rich sound quality and wireless flexibility.  We use a SONOS port to channel our grand piano through a microphone into the system. But to do so we have to make manual adjustments to all 10 speakers and the port to toggle between recorded music and the live piano it literally takes about 3-4 minutes and if not done properly can blast our guests out of the room as the speaker volumes must all be adjusted.  Is there anyway to “save” a  group of settings or a “scene”? So that we can just make the change with a simple “click”.

While creating an implementation in C# to interface with my sonos Symfonisk, I noticed that the xml data contains 2 IconLists. Both with only one item. The only difference is that one contains an ID entry with the value 0 and the other doesn’t. Can anyone explain why this is?

Hi AllAm debating whether I should get a second-hand Beam (gen1) or a Soundbar and could do with some advice. Current Sonos setup:  2 x Play:1 + 1 x Play:1 (needing Bridge). Therefore using S1 App due to Bridge (really annoying btw, Sonos). Purpose: Home cinema AND music in a small to medium size room to go with a fairly old 42inch Panasonic TV (no HDMI Arc or Optical out), Have a connected SKY Q box with optical out though. Options: Not looking to spend lots on a new products but think I can get a second-hand Beam (Gen1) for £200 or a second-hand Soundbar for £250. Current thinking: I thought I was set on a Beam Gen1 giving me S1/S2 flexibility, Google voice control,  and home cinema esp using the Play:1s. BUT if a Playbar is available for only a little more is this a better deal due to sound quality and richness? I have read the music quality on a Playbar will be much much better (including way way better bass) but not sure about the surround sound as older tech? Any thoughts, consid

This is the only thing holding Sonos back from taking throne as the best sounding and most compatible home speaker system in 2022You can do it, we know you can. If you wish, charge us for it. That way, only those who have paid a certain premium like $100 for DTS-X and DTS-HD compability can get compatiblity and regular updates via software. 

Good morning,For an interactive installation, we are planning to use a Sonos system to add sound to several spaces that have multiple light installations. The light installations are controlled through a mobile app, and the sound of each installation must react to the user input, as a kind of live audio installation. We can’t install any ethernet cables or audio cables to setup a traditional or Dante audio system, so we plan to do it with WiFi and several Sonos speakers.We’ve seen that with Sonos Port you can stream stereo line-in audio to Sonos speakers connected to the same network, assuming a minimum of 75ms of delay between the signal in and the final out through the speaker.For the installation, we have a computer with a sound card, delivering 12 different sound signals that come from a live music app such as Max or Logic pro. In other words: they are like 12 computer speakers playing live the sound signals from the computer. We are planning to connect each of this 12 outputs to m