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loved but now loathed

  • August 9, 2025
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I have two Sonos  play1 and two Sonos play three speakers. Purchased years ago and I loved them.  frequently recommended then to friends and business clients. Then Sonos did away with the bridge. I have hardly ever used them since. 
every year or so I spend a day trying to get them to work via WiFi. 
get frustrated at the drop out and connectivity issues. Then never use them again for another twelve months until I get some time to waste. 
I have fibre 

is there an alternative to the bridge. I do I just swap over to Bose?

any ideas would be appreciated. 
 

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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • August 9, 2025

Wire one of your speakers, if you can't, then get another similar speaker and put it where it can be wired.

While a Boost would work, the replacement for the Bridge, it isn't being sold any longer.

 

If you tell us more a out your setup we might be able to help, you could also, all Sonos Support. 

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  • SparkyD62
  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • August 10, 2025

Thanks Stanley_4,

I can put one of the speakers on an Ethernet cable to the router. But I also think the issue is with the app. I can get one or two songs off a play list then I get hit with “ song not encrypted” and drop out.

At present I have all four speakers dotted around the house just working off wifi to the router. They all have had a software update. They are at least 15 years old (gen one). Used to have them on constantly as most of my CDs were put on a hard drive and played from a computer via the home network. can’t even access that anymore.

 

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  • Parsnip62
  • Enthusiast II
  • August 10, 2025

Are you using the S1 version of the app? 

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • August 10, 2025

What music service? I don't recall seeing "song not encrypted" as an error message.

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  • paulrw
  • Prodigy II
  • August 12, 2025

i think you get the error like  “song not encoded correctly”, when sonos times out with handshaking, its a house  wifi problem, try an ethernet cable or even moving speakers about nearer to router….

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