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User977909Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Easily accessible group & volume scenes

It would be great if you could store "scenes", i.e. predefined groups and associated volume levels. They should be as easily accessible as the 'Sonos favorites'. An example would be "party" which could group all units in the house and sets the volume at the right levels between the units. Or "watching movie" which only turns on the playbar and associated Play:3 or Play:5's in the tv room, a the right volume level and turns off all other sonos units in the house. Or "OFF" which degroups all units and puts them all on mute.

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5 years ago
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John_110Contributor I
asked in Home theater

Playing my iTunes Library

Hi there Just installed a Bridge, Playbar and Play5. Having problems though accessing fully my iTunes on my iMac. Also neither my iPad nor iPhone5 can access all of my iTunes library and play music on the Playbar. Message states it cannot access iTunes on my iMac Please can you help?

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6 years ago
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Chris_66Contributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Can my smart tv be my Sonos Controller?

Is there a sonos app for a panasonic smart tv so I can use the tv & its remote as my controller?

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Stuart_W
7 years ago
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Mark SaxtonContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural

Sonos Connect Digital Outputs - Volume Control?

Does the in-App volume control work on the Connect's digital outputs? I want to connect the Connect's digital output directly to a pair of power amps via a 3rd party DAC which has no analogue volume control.

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6 years ago
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Pat_5Contributor I
posted in Home theater

PLAYBAR TV audio in other rooms?

How can I access the tv input from the playbar so I can access. The tv sound on other Sonos components ?

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jgatie
5 years ago
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rjlawsonProminent Collaborator II
posted in Speakers

Playbar 5GHz Channel Setting?

Can anyone please tell me if I you can see/change the 5GHz channel the Playbar uses to communicate with rear Play:3s in the Sonos Desktop/iOS controller? I've already got an Apple Airport 5GHz network setup, which most of my devices use & want to ensure that it's possible to ensure they're on distinct channels and avoid interference.

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ratty
7 years ago
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Hickmans old Town LtdContributor I
posted in Speakers

Beeping Play:5

We have a customer with a Play:5 that keeps beeping every few minutes when it's not being used. Any ideas what this could be or how to stop it? (alarms are not in use!)

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Airgetlam
5 years ago
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User863297Contributor III
posted in Home theater

Support arbitrary IR remote commands to Playbar.

I'd like it if playbar supported more programmable functions via IR remote. Many of us have universal remotes with unused/assignable buttons. Functions like: night mode, voice enhance, and music playback controls could all be assigned remote commands. The volume LED could be used to give some feedback for these states without having the sonos app open - E.g. one blink for on, two for off, etc... I know that simplicity is a hallmark of the Sonos system, but these could be added as optional 'power user' features.

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6 years ago
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User205945Contributor I
asked in Home theater

Compatability issues between Playbar/Sony Bravia KDL46XBR2

Hi Sonos, I just received my Playbar. I have a Sony Bravia 46" (KDL-46XBR2). It receives audio via an HDMI connection from the cable box. It is directly connected to the Playbar via the included optical digital audio cable. As I set up my Playbar, I am getting the message, "Sonos could not detect any audio from the TV." I have tried another optical cable. My TV doesn't necessarily have a "digital audio out" setting in the menu. It only has the option to turn the TV's speaker ON/OFF, though when I had the TV audio output going through component cables to a Play:5, it worked fine. Any troubleshooting steps?

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7 years ago
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User39257Contributor I
posted in Home theater

Playbar with multiple remote controls

Can the playbar understand multiple remote controls? I have a media server remote control as well as a TV remote control. Lets say I have the media server remote in my hand, normally, this wouldn't be able to turn up the TV volume (as it controls just the volume output from the media server). Can the playbar understand both to save me reaching for the TV remote everytime?

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6 years ago
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David FieldContributor I
posted in Home theater

how do I connect analogue sources to the playbar

I thinking of entering the Sonos world, I'd like to start with the Playbar acting as my only speaker system and expand the system later as required. What would I need to connect the Playbar to an analogue source in addition to the TV?

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6 years ago
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ukncdcContributor I
posted in Home theater

List of TV’s that will pass 5.1 from HDMI Sources to Playbar

All, Would you mind listing your TV and mode/year in this thread if you have tested it and confirmed it will pass DD 5.1 to the Playbar and from what source. This will help those of us in the market for a new TV and playbar. Thanks MikeB.

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3 years ago
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mrwebTrending Lyricist I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Preset buttons for different Volume - Music Source - Room combinations

I would need a possibility to save behind some preset buttons as bookmarks level of volume and Music Sources for different rooms. For example I could have a "TV set" for listening to TV in two rooms at certain volume level. Then preset button "Radio" could put a certain radio channel to every Play:5 except those in children's rooms.

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6 years ago
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scott_27Contributor I
asked in Home theater

Playbar surround sound and Apple TV

Just hooked up my play bar, sub and 2 play 3's for surround sound. Verizon Fios TV is great. Music played thru my iPad sonos remote is amazing. No audio though when I switch over to Apple TV. What should I do?

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Airgetlam
7 years ago
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RO53BENEnthusiast II
posted in Home theater

PLAYBAR DTS Support

As we all know, PLAYBAR doesn't support DTS audio. If you feed it DTS, you simply get "unsupported" as the input type and silence from the speakers. For my birthday today, I received a Superman blu-ray box set and looked forward to watching the movies in HD and PLAYBAR surround sound. Unfortunately, as the PLAYBAR doesn't support the DTS encoded movies, I am unable to play them back in surround sound. VERY disappointing, especially for my kids who bought the box set for me. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I wouldn't recommend a PLAYBAR to anybody until they fix this DTS issue. It's extremely frustrating to know that many blu-ray discs will not work in 5.1 for PLAYBAR and I can't believe that DTS decoding wasn't included on a device that commands such a high price. To get PLAYBAR in 5.1, you need to have the unit itself plus a SUB and 2 x PLAY:3 devices. That's over £1700 and it still won't do DTS! Ridiculous. Compare to this Yamaha soundbar... [url]http://www.amazo

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6 years ago
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mel1Contributor I
posted in Speakers

Panasonic TV internal speaker mute

Hi all, So the new Playbar arrived and yes it does live up to the reputation, however I'm having a real problem disabling the TV's internal speakers it's a Panasonic TX-L55WT50 and I simply can't find any set up option to turn them off. I've even tried plugging a Jack into the headphone socket but nope that didn't work either. I can't simply turn the volume down or mute the telly as obviously the playbar depends on the TV remote control, so as soon as you touch the volume the tv speakers come back. The current work around is to have the tv volume turned down and to control the Playbar volume via iPad but this is far from perfect and flys in the face of the "simple" idea and seamless pairing. It's currently taking the edge off of what should have been a perfect solution, any ideas?

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R3SKT
5 years ago
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mariachiel21Avid Contributor I
posted in Speakers

Reduce idle consumption energy level (currently around 5W)

Sonos devices on average consume about 5 watts each if idle. Having 5 sonos devices around this means 25 watts on average idle consumption. Over a year this is about (25x24hx365) 219 kwh. In Germany where 1 kwh is about 0,30 Euro Cent this then means about 70 Euro (about 100$) just to maintain an idle system. This is just too much and could easily be reduced. Looking at the environmental aspect this gets even more critical: There are around 2.5 million Sonos devices around. This adds up to 110,000,000 kwh or 110 million kwh.

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Edward R
5 years ago
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chregContributor I
posted in Home theater

Playbar - Usage of the 2 Ethernet connectors

Hello, Already owner of a Play-5 I am currently following with interest the arrival of the playbar. I have 1 question regarding the Ethernet connection of the PlayBar. I could see there are 2 ports and in the specifications it is mentioned : '[I]A single Ethernet port can connect PLAYBAR to a wired home network. A second Ethernet port can be used to share wireless control.[/I]' My Play-5 is currently connected with Eternet to the router. If I would buy a playbar, it would take the place of the Play-5. the Play-5 would then be moved to another room. So will the Playbar act as the Play-5 that means be the entry point to the router to then connect other components ? Thanks for your feedback. Regards, Régis

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6 years ago
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Martin_19Contributor I
asked in Speakers

How do I find the path for the hard drive connected to my router?

I have connected a USB hard drive (Seagate 2TB) to our router (TP -Link) with all our music on it. I believe this is called a NAS drive? How do I find the file path to instruct Sonos so it can access it?

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6 years ago
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Chris LoringContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

error installing windows controller

The installer runs fine then when I go to open the Sonos desktop controller on my PC it come up with 3 error messages as follows: "To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework: v4.0.30319 Contact your application publisher for instructions about obtaining the appropriate version of .NET Framework" I click OK, the same message appears then I get a further message saying "Unable to load pcdcr.dll. Please re-install". I have tried a full re-install but get the same message. I am running Vista SP1. Help!

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6 years ago
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gujumanTrending Lyricist I
asked in Home theater

Playbar volume control through FIOS remote.

Playbar with FIOS cable box remote? Currently the volume button on the FIOS remote controls the volume on my Samsung SMARTV... can I program that same remote to adjust volume of the playbar?

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5 years ago
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St.JohnTrending Lyricist I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Playlist Editing

Could Sonos let us know where they are on allowing some form of playlist editing? Following the merger between Napster & Rhapsody (or vice versa) I have playlists filled with "track unavailable" debris items (eg 365 tracks on a 2500+ playlist). Because there is no way of sorting them (eg on a PC Controller), even when I note that a track is not available, there is no way for me to sort the playlist eg alphabetically or search the list to nail and boot out the offending item (or even better, allowing me real time to see something similar that is available and do a swap). The lack of any editing playlist capability is, in my view, the Sonos systems weakest (and perhaps only) failing. I note previous comments on backup files: I was not aware of this "new" weakness and it would be a disaster if I lost my playlists (even the ones with Napster debris). Come on Sonos: it cant be that hard to have some playlist editing and playlist backup?

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Airgetlam
4 years ago
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QuintonContributor I
posted in Speakers

Allow audio output on Play:5 simultaneously through built in speakers and headphone output

I wish I could select the audio output on the Play:5 to come out through its built in speakers or the headphone jack from the controller so I can keep my headphones plugged in. It would also be great to be able to have audio come through both at the same time!

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TheLovable
5 years ago
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User853685Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Version unconfirmed

I can't install the sonos controller as it keeps saying that the version is unconfirmed, and that there is a problem confirming that the sonos controller is up to date! please help

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6 years ago
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EmpyrealContributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Feature Request: Export and Import Sonos Playlists

Like many users, we use Sonos in two different houses. We have two NAS's of music that I'm planning on keeping synchronized with RSYNC. What doesn't sync or cant get exported are Sonos Playlists. It would be great to be able to ad-hoc export them and then to import them as well. Using the UPnP interface, I've noted a Java program that can export playlists, but importing them is a bit troublesome. It would be great to have this feature.

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4 years ago
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