NAS for music streaming to Sonos
Discussion
So, as Sonos have dropped the ability to play your own music library through your phone, it appears that having a NAS drive is a good solution.
What do I need and how does it work?
Sonos say it’ll work directly with no issues but I’m not a fan of some of the advice they’ve given in the past.
Something for about 5000 tracks at the moment but it’ll need to be expandable.
I’ve read that some have apps to help if being used primarily as a music storage device.
Do I need RAID?
So many questions and more expense- can’t believe sonos have dumped that functionality.
What do I need and how does it work?
Sonos say it’ll work directly with no issues but I’m not a fan of some of the advice they’ve given in the past.
Something for about 5000 tracks at the moment but it’ll need to be expandable.
I’ve read that some have apps to help if being used primarily as a music storage device.
Do I need RAID?
So many questions and more expense- can’t believe sonos have dumped that functionality.
My music is on a NAs and always has been.
The basics:
Any NAS will do, technically. A disk drive that connects to your LAN without the need for a computer.
All NASs will allow you to create WIndows shares. Create one on your NAS and call it "Music" for example. Now every computer can map a drive to it for simple access - i.e. My "M:" drive is mapped to a share on my NAS where all my music resides. The same is true for Apple shares using AFP.
A RAID NAS is a NAS with more than one disk drive - almost always setup to allow redundancy. Your music is spread over both drives. If one drive fails, the other drive will still have a full copy of your music, and you can go and buy a new drive to replace the dead one. This is called drive mirroring. You can use more than 2 drives and things get more efficient but it's rarely nescessary for what we are doing here - the drives just are not expensive enough to worry about.
I have a Netgear ReadyNas Duo that has been going for about 7 years now. It has 2 x 1Tb drives, mirrored, giving me 1Tb of storage. On that I have all my music, photos, and I back up my dekstop folders to it too.
I could use a simple single disk NAS, but I've seen HDDs fail before and for the extra cost, to me it's worth it.
Random links to give you an idea:
2 drive Raid NAS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-LS220D0402-EU-Lin...
Single drive NAS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-LS210D0201-EU-Lin...
The basics:
Any NAS will do, technically. A disk drive that connects to your LAN without the need for a computer.
All NASs will allow you to create WIndows shares. Create one on your NAS and call it "Music" for example. Now every computer can map a drive to it for simple access - i.e. My "M:" drive is mapped to a share on my NAS where all my music resides. The same is true for Apple shares using AFP.
A RAID NAS is a NAS with more than one disk drive - almost always setup to allow redundancy. Your music is spread over both drives. If one drive fails, the other drive will still have a full copy of your music, and you can go and buy a new drive to replace the dead one. This is called drive mirroring. You can use more than 2 drives and things get more efficient but it's rarely nescessary for what we are doing here - the drives just are not expensive enough to worry about.
I have a Netgear ReadyNas Duo that has been going for about 7 years now. It has 2 x 1Tb drives, mirrored, giving me 1Tb of storage. On that I have all my music, photos, and I back up my dekstop folders to it too.
I could use a simple single disk NAS, but I've seen HDDs fail before and for the extra cost, to me it's worth it.
Random links to give you an idea:
2 drive Raid NAS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-LS220D0402-EU-Lin...
Single drive NAS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-LS210D0201-EU-Lin...
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 27th August 21:03
+1 for ReadyNas duo. Had one for 12 years now. Set up as raid with a usb backup as well.
My Sonos has been disconnected from Sonos since they killed the cr100 so I’ve still got that usability. It struck me at the time that the Alexa integration was very much aimed at ousting the domestic streaming and forcing you into Spotify or amazon.
My Sonos has been disconnected from Sonos since they killed the cr100 so I’ve still got that usability. It struck me at the time that the Alexa integration was very much aimed at ousting the domestic streaming and forcing you into Spotify or amazon.
Thanks for all the advice.
I’ll be doing some shopping in the next couple of weeks.
Looking through the community boards for Sonos - there are some very upset people out there. Mention of class action lawsuits and all sorts.
It would appear that it’s something Apple have done in order to drive people towards their own speaker.
Going to have a good read through the links posted and try to make sense of it all.
I’ll be doing some shopping in the next couple of weeks.
Looking through the community boards for Sonos - there are some very upset people out there. Mention of class action lawsuits and all sorts.
It would appear that it’s something Apple have done in order to drive people towards their own speaker.
Going to have a good read through the links posted and try to make sense of it all.
pidsy said:
Thanks for all the advice.
I’ll be doing some shopping in the next couple of weeks.
Looking through the community boards for Sonos - there are some very upset people out there. Mention of class action lawsuits and all sorts.
It would appear that it’s something Apple have done in order to drive people towards their own speaker.
Going to have a good read through the links posted and try to make sense of it all.
Yes - not wanting to derail thread but there was no need to disable the cr100s- they were just tidying up their ecosystem for the float / deals with apple/amazon and dumped all the early adopters. I had 7 cr100s so I firewalled my Sonos system to prevent them from updating - there is nothing as convenient for me as the cr100. The thing is I now cannot add new Sonos kit to the system so have started moving over to Yamaha I’ll be doing some shopping in the next couple of weeks.
Looking through the community boards for Sonos - there are some very upset people out there. Mention of class action lawsuits and all sorts.
It would appear that it’s something Apple have done in order to drive people towards their own speaker.
Going to have a good read through the links posted and try to make sense of it all.
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