External Storage Device

Pretty much any NAS on the market. I happen to use a WD Mycloud, but mostly because it was on sale.
How did you get it set up? When I add \\WDMYCLOUD\Public\Shared Music to my library after a while the answer is that WDMYCLOUD is not answering/replying.

JoAhl,

Remove the blank space in your shared folder name called 'Shared Music' and set up the library connection again in the Sonos Controller Settings. Let me know if that works for you.

JoAhl,

Remove the blank space in your shared folder name called 'Shared Music' and set up the library connection again in the Sonos Controller Settings. Let me know if that works for you.

Ken, Thank you for your theory but it didn't work. I got the same message again.

My thoughts then is that it is something to do with the SMB/CIFS protocol in use by the NAS .. is there an area in the settings to enable SMB/CIFS protocol on the shared folder and also check it's security setting is allowing guest access.

I'm afraid I don't know the NAS personally, but it might be similar to my NAS, which requires the SMB/CIFS protocol and guest read/write access to both be enabled for every share that's being accessed by Sonos.

Not sure i can help either. I pretty much plugged it in, connected to it with a browser per the instructions, and then set up and transferred my music library over. And of course, pointed Sonos at it. I do indeed have the space in Shared Music, and it works fine. As I recall when I originally set it up, I did mess with the 'always on" settings, but I don't remember if there was anything else. I just read the instructions it came with, and followed that.

JoAhl,

Are you able to access the shared music folder and play your music from a Windows PC? I was trying to find out some further information and came across this link https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/17c9ea7d-52df-4ef9-95fa-0a961d11bfa3/fix-for-cannot-access-nas-drives-sharefolder-is-not-accessible-or-error-code-0x80070035?forum=w8itpronetworking which again points to security permissions and the read/write access to the shared folder

It would be useful to know if other devices on your network can access and play the files on your WD Mycloud NAS. Have you tried posting the problem on the WD forum as I suspect the issue/problem may lie with access permissions on the share.

I got a Raspberry Pi micro computer to play with and aside from a few other things I set it up to do I added a copy of my music library to it. The Pi has been working well for a couple weeks now and I'm removing the WD Live Drive (see my post above) from my setup, turns out it is electrically noisy and is aggravating the Play 3 I have sitting close to it.

Pi was about $35, a USB to SATA cable about $10 as was a 2 amp 5 volt supply. I splurged on a $8.00 case for the Pi and re-purposed an old, small, slow SSD for storage. Ended up being pretty cheap compared to a ready-built setup but the kicker for me is that the Pi has software updates versus my WD Live Drive that has been abandoned.

i just uploaded my entire album to google play for free and works perfectly and syncs with iTunes automatically.

Uploading to and playing from an outside location will use some of your network bandwidth and move you closer to your data caps so it isn't suitable for everyone's situation.

Another uploading issue is format conversion, I'd not behappy having my FLAC collection downgraded to MP3 by Google.

Google upload chart: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en

Does it really matter on a mono PLAY1 in the kitchen or bedroom??
Ease of use, time to music, access to millions of tracks by streaming is where wifi speakers win.