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Has anyone actually successfully added their own music back onto Sonos now that Sonos claims we have their permission to do so once again? Just curious.

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wfoaulgcsabcnfAnswer

Trending Lyricist I

Just give me the software version prior to the stripping away and I will never update again. At least I could salvage some use from this worthless trash with “Sonos” printed on it.

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jgatie

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Hundreds of them. Not to mention that most people who have success adding a library via the support section do not even bother to post here.

And by the way, calling legitimate posters ”fanbots” is against TOS of this site. Try to be more polite, please.

controlav

Lead Maestro

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

The File Share on my Windows Server has worked on both my S1 and S2 systems since the day I set it up, years ago. The http-server Sonos Library Service that was deprecated earlier this year required me to reconfigure to get that to work again. No big deal.

I have no idea what nonsense Mac users have to do for file sharing, but I do know it changes with every major OS release because Apple care not a jot about back-compat.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

Ken_Griffiths

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Local libraries are working fine here with a NAS and a Windows 10 PC too. I’ve never not had access to my local library tracks… See example screen-capture (attached) taken from my iPad controller, which was recorded back in mid-June this year …and the local libraries are still working fine now.

MoPac

Headliner III

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Never lost mine which is on a SonicTransporter i5 NAS. Did experiment with a Windows 10 test share. Worked just fine. Don’t want my computer on 24/7 so dumped the test share.

Stanley_4

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I guess since I never miss an update and my library still works any of my suggestions out too.

The update mess hits every user based on their setup, goes from none to dead.

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wfoaulgcsabcnfAuthor

Trending Lyricist I

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Hundreds of them.

Again, still haven’t heard from anyone able to restore. Anyone?

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wfoaulgcsabcnfAuthor

Trending Lyricist I

Just as I thought. Guess I will start researching alternatives to replace these worthless boxes.

Ken_Griffiths

Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Hundreds of them.

Again, still haven’t heard from anyone able to restore. Anyone?

Restore? - Do you mean to understand how to change the library share protocol from HTTP, or SMBv1, to SMBv2, or higher? There’s already plenty of community threads that cover these things, most emerged after the Sonos announcement in the App sometime back in April 2024 (attached) - take these below links, just as examples, all depending of course on the type of library share in situ…

For MacOS:

https://youtu.be/kjhKhDuvgDY

For Windows:

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers%2Dand%2Dmusic%2Dservices%2D229131/adding%2Da%2Dwindows%2Dsmb%2Dshare%2Dstep%2Dby%2Dstep%2D6892060

For NAS:

Consult the user-manual, but in most cases it’s a simple case of accessing the NAS settings and changing SMB (server message block) sharing protocol to a higher version.

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wfoaulgcsabcnfAuthor

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Sonos fanbots claiming they never lost the ability aside I still haven’t heard of anyone that has actually been able to restore playing their own music library over the Sonos speakers. Is there anyone?

Hundreds of them.

Again, still haven’t heard from anyone able to restore. Anyone?

Restore? - Do you mean to understand how to change the library share protocol from HTTP, or SMBv1, to SMBv2, or higher? There’s already plenty of community threads that cover these things, most emerged after the Sonos announcement in the App sometime back in April 2024 (attached) - take these below links, just as examples, all depending of course on the type of library share in situ…

For MacOS:

https://youtu.be/kjhKhDuvgDY

For Windows:

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers%2Dand%2Dmusic%2Dservices%2D229131/adding%2Da%2Dwindows%2Dsmb%2Dshare%2Dstep%2Dby%2Dstep%2D6892060

For NAS:

Consult the user-manual, but in most cases it’s a simple case of accessing the NAS settings and changing SMB (server message block) sharing protocol to a higher version.

Yes. Plenty of links, but no solutions.

Sonos Level 2 support even took control of my machine remotely, played around a bit doing the same things all the links say to do (just as I did) and it still didn’t work. I’m beginning to see that this is just a smokescreen to hold off the criticism and another total waste of my time (again). There is no “solution” as this is an “intended” situation.

So I ask again (knowing the answer already): Is there anyone who has been able to (let’s not use the word “restore”) play their own music library on their fraudulent Sonos devices? (watching the clock to see how long it takes another Sonos employee to send me links and stories of how “hundreds” have been able to do so despite Sonos employees actually NOT being able to make it work)

jgatie

Good grief. 🙄

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