Hi, Thanks for the good description. Actually on the Mac you have to type in the path to your folder on the NAS as well. Was hoping that you could browse for a folder but that was, as far as i could see not possible, but it’s ok, i know how to do it now, both from the IPhone and the Mac. /Krister > 26 nov 2014 kl. 17:10 skrev Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]>: > > Hi Krister, > > No, I have a Dlink NAS which I probably had for 6 or 8 years and I play the > music on there on my Sonos system all the time with no computer. You will > simply have to make a "Music" or "Music and Books" folder on your NAS and put > everything in there. > > Now this I usually prefer to do in the Sonos Desktop Controller on my PC > since I can browse to the folder , if you use the iPhone app you can do this > in Settings, Manage Music Library and tap on the Music Library Setup button. > On the next screen you have a More Options button and here you can enter a > new shared folder. As I said, I haven't done this from iOS so I assume you > have to type in the full network path. > > If you can do it from the Sonos Desktop Controller it will be easier, just > type "Alt+M" for the "Manage" menu, then arrow down to "Music Library > Settings" and on the Folders tab select the "Add" button. > Next select the "On a network device such as a network attached storage (NAS) > device. > Click "Next" > Now you can either type the path to your network share or tab to the Browse > button, activate it and browse to your N > AS folder and select it. > > Also make sure to check the options under the Advanced tab where you can do > things like set a time when your music library is automatically reindexed and > you can check to let Sonos "Fix permissions on music files so that Sonos can > always access them". Keep in mind that if you copy new music into your music > folder on the NAS that you will not see this in your music library in the > Sonos app until Sonos has gone through an update/reindex which you can > initiate manually or set it to happen once a day at a particular time. > > > Good luck, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How do i make Sonos see i have a nas with music on it? > > Hi, as you know by now, i am a bear with a very, very small brain so that’s > why i can’t get my thick head around how to make Sonos play from my Nas where > i will have all of my music and mp3 books stored as well as my Itunes > library. My nas is a Netgear Readynas Ultra ii and i want to be able to play > music from it even if my computer isn’t on. Is this at all possible or should > i forget the idea alltogether? > /Krister > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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