Upside : it has no reliance on external internet connections/indexing, making it very fast, and reliable. That said, if you have a set group of albums/artists that you need to get instant access to then you can add to favourites. Meaning you have have your mp3 archive structured in a clean fashion to help you can find your albums easily. The only downside : the sonos search funtion no longer works as the metadata is stored in the mp3,and m3u files have none. That way your 5000 albums takes up only 5000 spots in the library. Rather than pointing sonos at your mp3 archive, using that utility, you create a mirror directory structure of your archive that contains an m3u of each album. If you have tracknames/albums with very long names then they will take up 2 spots in the library.Īlso, turns out that the plex option is very unreliable.įor anyone else who gets to this situation, here is the easy workaround : Well, at 64,000 tracks i hit the limit a couple of days ago. and i can hear radio (via tunein), stuff from the smartphone, stuff from the music library from my computer and from the streaming service deezer to which i have subscribed to. but for the kitchen it is ok and the setup and the control with the smartphone is dead easy. and of course i only have one speaker and i am a stereo kid, so compared to my hifi this is a step back. in the end i must say i am a little bit disappointed about the speaker as to me it does not sound a lot better than the play 1. so in the end i bought the play 3 and as there was a discount i got it for 229 euros, i think. then we tried to plug-in my ipod and ok it worked but the built-in amplifier somehow did not do his job, i hardly heard the music, it was extremely quiet. in germany) and i wanted to get a sonos play 3 - we already had the play 1 which i had set up in 5 minutes - there was a guy from bose(!) who tried to sell me the heos! he said it was much better than the bose and his main argument was that it was an open system. When i went to the saturn store (market leader for tv hifi etc.

Sonos add upnp player