Sonos will not update my music library with new music added to my NAS


The key is setting up a well organized Folder Structure by genre, then perform a Folder and File permissions  applying inheritance on all. Linux/Unix is picky about permissions.

Keep the update manageable.  For instance, I had to scale back from a single run of 45,000 songs to batch updates of 10,000 files per Update session, run back to back..

My NAS is a small Xbox 2TB drive, reformatted into NTFS,  partitioned  into Music and Movies, with a total of four partitions and the last being a “blank”, free space, partition that can be used to reset the music library index.

My NAS is plugged into a mesh  ASUS RT-AX58U router, which simplifies everything with their UI..


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