My weekend project was to set the distributed music using Sonos and some NAS.
So I hooked my Sonos to my home network and it beautifully played music from the services available. But unfortunately the services it offered had hardly any regional music originals I would want to play. It had some radio stations which did not cater to my taste.
So I plugged in my Drobo on the Airport Extreme and renamed the hub to a single string name and made sure the disk share was fine as explained in here. The disk appeared in the Sonos Server settings and I was hopping with excitement! But that did not last too long.
The music on the Drobo never appeared in the Sonos application. Also the music streaming also became suddenly impaired. It kept on giving me timeout error(1000). I thought it must be because Sonos is busy building my index. So I waited for two days, Nothing really happened. So I reset the Sonos and decided to start all over again.
This time after setting the Drobo share, I thought I should try the disk on the WD TV Live already connected up and available on the same network. Now the question was how do I access the disk on WD TV Live? Some writeup was talking about WDTV hub and I took a cue from it and created a share using wdtvlive as the name of server and the name shown in WD TV live as the disk name. No user name and password and it just connected up and said it will be indexing now. (This message did not appear when I connected my Drobo share.)
Sure enough, I left it running for the day and by evening all my music was available on the Sonos!
It tried to import some already created playlists but I could not find any useful ones I had. But no worries, I quickly searched up the name of artists and created the playlist for the quick start. (One point to note here, the search gives you multiple results for most of the artist searches depending if they are solo or duets etc. So you have to add each of those into your playlist if you have to have all of them under the same name.-You can do this to the other person in the artist list also so that the same set appears both places- And when you do it, you have to watch for the "more" shown on top right of the list since by default under each category of search, Sonos displays only a limited set.)
Time well spent! My distributed music Proof of concept is in place!
An Update: Incidentally to watch the Apple event flawless, I had turned off the WD TV and without realizing that, the next day morning I opened up Sonos player and played the song list and it started playing without a blink! Interesting. So looks like even when your WDTV is turned on by the remote, the file server functionality continue to be working for Sonos to treat it as a NAS!
So I hooked my Sonos to my home network and it beautifully played music from the services available. But unfortunately the services it offered had hardly any regional music originals I would want to play. It had some radio stations which did not cater to my taste.
So I plugged in my Drobo on the Airport Extreme and renamed the hub to a single string name and made sure the disk share was fine as explained in here. The disk appeared in the Sonos Server settings and I was hopping with excitement! But that did not last too long.
The music on the Drobo never appeared in the Sonos application. Also the music streaming also became suddenly impaired. It kept on giving me timeout error(1000). I thought it must be because Sonos is busy building my index. So I waited for two days, Nothing really happened. So I reset the Sonos and decided to start all over again.
This time after setting the Drobo share, I thought I should try the disk on the WD TV Live already connected up and available on the same network. Now the question was how do I access the disk on WD TV Live? Some writeup was talking about WDTV hub and I took a cue from it and created a share using wdtvlive as the name of server and the name shown in WD TV live as the disk name. No user name and password and it just connected up and said it will be indexing now. (This message did not appear when I connected my Drobo share.)
Sure enough, I left it running for the day and by evening all my music was available on the Sonos!
It tried to import some already created playlists but I could not find any useful ones I had. But no worries, I quickly searched up the name of artists and created the playlist for the quick start. (One point to note here, the search gives you multiple results for most of the artist searches depending if they are solo or duets etc. So you have to add each of those into your playlist if you have to have all of them under the same name.-You can do this to the other person in the artist list also so that the same set appears both places- And when you do it, you have to watch for the "more" shown on top right of the list since by default under each category of search, Sonos displays only a limited set.)
Time well spent! My distributed music Proof of concept is in place!
An Update: Incidentally to watch the Apple event flawless, I had turned off the WD TV and without realizing that, the next day morning I opened up Sonos player and played the song list and it started playing without a blink! Interesting. So looks like even when your WDTV is turned on by the remote, the file server functionality continue to be working for Sonos to treat it as a NAS!
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