Sonos Five speakers...

[hubcapsc]

Originally Posted by Chipotle

I have Sonos, and like another poster here I have a NAS drive with mp3s. Those can certainly be played via Sonos for local access.

If you have another device with music that doesn't play well with Sonos directly, you could simply hook it up via the Line In on the Five (assuming, of course, your device has a headphone jack). You wouldn't have the ability to see what's playing, skip forward or back etc. via Sonos, but at least you could play your "local" music through the Sonos speakers.

That seems like the trick I was looking for ...

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/78?language=en_US

I wouldn't have wanted to hook anything physically to the Sonos directly,
but some kind of always-on Mac or Windows box (which I don't have)
or some kind of always-on storage device that supported CIFS (which I don't
have but would be willing to get) would be cool...

Since you have one, Chipotle, I have to ask... how do you put the mp3s on
there? Does the Sonos app perceive them as a giant pile of songs, or can
you make directories for this album and that album and then play whole albums,
or... ?

-Mike

[egordon99]

Originally Posted by hubcapsc

That seems like the trick I was looking for ...

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/78?language=en_US

I wouldn't have wanted to hook anything physically to the Sonos directly,
but some kind of always-on Mac or Windows box (which I don't have)
or some kind of always-on storage device that supported CIFS (which I don't
have but would be willing to get) would be cool...

Since you have one, Chipotle, I have to ask... how do you put the mp3s on
there? Does the Sonos app perceive them as a giant pile of songs, or can
you make directories for this album and that album and then play whole albums,
or... ?

-Mike

I am not Chipotle but Sonos indexes "local" music via regular tags on the mp3 files. Since I ripped my CDs with iTunes, everything was pretty much tagged properly so can browse by Artist/Album pretty easily.

[Chipotle]

Originally Posted by hubcapsc

Since you have one, Chipotle, I have to ask... how do you put the mp3s on
there? Does the Sonos app perceive them as a giant pile of songs, or can
you make directories for this album and that album and then play whole albums, or... ?

As egordon99 said, when you index the library in Sonos, it pulls the metadata out of the individual mp3s, so within Sonos you can search by album, artist etc.

The structure of files/folders on your NAS doesn't matter. My stuff is arranged roughly by Artist > Album > song mp3s, but some things are just in one "artist-album" folder, and other songs are in "miscellaneous" folders. As long as you make sure the tags in the mp3 are correct, Sonos will sort it for you.