OK, Donna.
Here are a few things.
Firstly and foremost, are these songs you're wanting to play sinply just in
your music library, or are they actually literally downloaded to your phone
locally for offline listenning.
If they simply are just added to your library in the cloud, but are not
literally downloaded, then the controller isn't gonna see them, so beware.
Provided that they are actually locally downloaded, whether you've purchased
them, or just downloaded them with Apple music, doesn't matter, either way,
as long as they are actually residing on your device, then here's what you
do.
First, be sure that your main Sonos system and the device using the
controller app are both on the same wifi network. If you are doing the
extended bridge method with the ethernet cable, then I'm not totally sure
how that would work, as I've got my Play1 set up over my wifi. I have good
enough wifi signal throughout my house that it's not a problem in the least.
OK, so, on iOS, remember your music menu in the top left corner of the
controller app? Go ahead and double tap on that to open up the menu with
all your currently installed/configured services.
Now at the top of your screen, you'll again see the music menu, flick right
once, and you'll be on the room menu. It should say the name of the
currently selected room. I'm sure you know most a this, but I just wanna be
sure we're both totally here on the same level of understanding.
Flick again to the right and you'll hear search. Go again. You should hear
Sonos favorites, then again, Sonos Playlists, then again, things may change
here a little bit, depending on what services you have set up. So past this
point, I can't tell you as you flick exactly what you're going to hear, but
generally speaking, you should hear on this IPhone/IPod/IPad.
Now, double tap on that.
OK, now there should be tabs across the top of the screen like playlists,
artists, albums, genres, songs, compilations, composers, and finally,
podcasts.
So double tap on the one you want to view your IPhone's media by.
In my case, I'm going to select Artists, just as an example.
Now of corse, whoops, this just had to happen to me, LOL! I don't have any
music currently on the phone. Dang it! Oh well, there went that idea of me
giving you an example. Oops? Well, ok, the point is, had I, it would then,
going down the screen virtically, have had a list of my artists. I then
could have simply just double tapped the artist, then the album, then either
the song to play, or, I could have tapped the item above all the songs when
within the album itself to play the complete disc.
If what you're saying is, you want to play music from your library say from
media on an external hard drive or whatever, then you have to add the
folders first that you want the controller to index on that machine.
I'd be more than happy to type up a tutorial on how to do this, if it would
help you out.
Also, if you'd like to write me off list with your number, I'd be more than
happy to set up a time to call you and talk you through this step by step,
if that would make it easier.
My e-mail is:
[email protected]
Thanks.
Chris, who is a die hard living, breathing, Sonos fanatic!
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