I Tunes without I Phone

J_B

Job's done (I think) all music from the last three back ups dating back a 'few' years is now on my W10 pc

Next 'challenge' how do I play my W10 muic through the sonos system? Does it need to go through iTunes or what?

I have the sonos app on my Android phone (and Mrs B's iPhOnE) and my W10 PC

I tried right click on a single tune and tried 'cast to a device' but it would only select one speaker, not both.

Looked in the Sonos app but can't see an option to choose music on the PC

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EDIT

Found this https://support.sonos.com/s/article/257?language=en_US

but

which is a little bizarre as I'm using the said computer!!

Jenni_D

You might need to do one of the following:

1) Upload the music files to a cloud account (iCloud?)
2) Share the music folder on the W10 PC as a network share, and select that share in the Sonos app (if that is possible)

Beyond that I don't know - even the above are guesses.  

googler

What form are the backups in? Are they backups that you generated from iTunes by using their backup utility?

How do you play these through Sonos? Well, if they're not in a form that Sonos will recognise (folder structure, music files within folder, etc.) I fear you may struggle. 

J_B

googler said:

What form are the backups in? Are they backups that you generated from iTunes by using their backup utility?

How do you play these through Sonos? Well, if they're not in a form that Sonos will recognise (folder structure, music files within folder, etc.) I fear you may struggle. 

Some are .m4a and some are .mp4

I suspect (?) the .m4a have been transferred from CD to iTunes and the .mp4 have been downloaded from tinternet in various ways

Jenni_D

MP4 is usually used for video files? Did you mean MP3?

M4A I think is Apple's own music format.

J_B

Sam Smith is .wav

George Ezra is .wma

Elton John is .m4a

Yes, I meant .mp3

another_casualty

Mmm.. sorry not familiar with Sonos 
Are you able to uninstall then reinstall library? 

Have you checked audio preferences on your pc? 

Restarting the pc may help ..

just woke up from a nap, so may be an idea to do these suggestions in reverse 😼

jon81uk

Yeah this is no longer an iTunes issue and is now a Sonos issue.

Might be worth posting a new topic even of Sonos for Windows can't fund music folder.
Or look for another forums that specifically offiers Sonos advice.

Jenni_D

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-sharing-over-a-network-in-windows-10-b58704b2-f53a-4b82-7bc1-80f9994725bf

Maybe try that? (If Sonos can't see the PC at all then it sounds like the PC is blocking incoming connections that the PC itself has not initiated).

J_B

Jenni_D said:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-sharing-over-a-network-in-windows-10-b58704b2-f53a-4b82-7bc1-80f9994725bf

Maybe try that? (If Sonos can't see the PC at all then it sounds like the PC is blocking incoming connections that the PC itself has not initiated).

But, Sonos *can* see the PC - I've installed the app and can control Sonos ...... hmm