In the meantime, I’ve tried to hook up the RavFH by laptop and phone, using another hard disk I have for the purpose. It may be that the fewest complications work best for me (some version of Occam’s Razor?). If this continues to be OK, I’ll go with this set-up for a while. I’ve gone through 4-5 albums today without any issues. Maybe the changes I made in closing the Sonos program on the laptop, or disconnecting from the internet are working? I can’t see that there are any other changes, except a bit of time. The “albums: are playing the first time, without any error messages. Interestingly, I’m not getting the queue error 1002 today.
#SONOS RIP FLAC SOFTWARE ALBUM ART MOVIE#
If you went with something like an RPi you could also use that to stream your movie files to the TV via the HDMI connection.
#SONOS RIP FLAC SOFTWARE ALBUM ART FREE#
Something like Plex Media Server on your laptop or a Raspberry Pi and adding the Plex client on Sonos would be a simple solution for less than $100 (nearer to free if you dedicate the laptop). If you’re serious about making this work reliably and with your large music library it might be better to invest a bit more in a media server. I’ll be interested to hear if the Filehub performs better - with a minimal setup as a Filehub it will only have one job and might be just what you need. This could be an issue with the speed and settings of your laptop or network connection. You mentioned it took a long time for the Sonos to index your library earlier in this thread so that may be another indicator of the performance issues. I don’t know how your network is setup in general but would expect since you have the laptop connected directly to the Port the problem might be in either the ethernet cable or settings on the laptop. Just adding an album (guessing 10-20 tracks) to the Sonos queue shouldn’t cause this issue with a nominally well performing setup. I’ve only seen it on very large playlists (~1000 or more tracks) and usually only when I shuffle them since it takes time to gather and process the data. Keep in mind the Filehub and similar devices are pretty low-end devices so don’t expect to be able to serve more than one or two simultaneous streams of music/video.Įdit: fixed “Media Servers” in second Sonos App menu reference above.Įrror 1002 is the one I thought most likely. Of course you can try each out and see which works best. This will provide a DLNA/UPnP service you can access (uses http) via the Media Server option in Sonos (Sonos App>Settings>System>Media Servers). Or, if you only want access to the music on the disk, just turn on the DLNA Service option. This will provide what Sonos calls a Music Library (Sonos App>Settings>System>Music Library). If you use this you’ll be able to access the disk and add/remove/move the files around without moving the disk to your laptop first. Wireless isn’t hard to setup though.įor file access you can use the Win File Service(Samba) option (page 26, provides SMBv1 which is the Windows file sharing protocol Sonos can use). If you have a simple local LAN and an ethernet port available and space near the router it would be simple to attach that way and not worry about the wireless setup. You might even be able to power the Filehub from one of the USB ports since it uses a regular USB-A to microUSB cable. You mentioned you have an Arris BGW210 and ATT service so based on one version of it’s manual ( here) you may have both ethernet ports and wireless available to connect.
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