adding Music folder on Qnap to library in Sonos

[vanwesst]

My QNAP TS-253B should mainly serve as a multimedia library. In particular, I would like to play my music on my sonos installation. My QNAP appears in Sonos, but I can't play the songs, which appear, but in grey and the sonos controller says it cannot play them. When I want to add the nas to my library (using the special button for this in the menu) my nas does not appear as part of my network. A discussion in the sonos community did not provide conclusive solutions. Anyone has the same problem and has a solution? Thx

[dolbyman]

if you update to the latest firmware (and your device has a S/N from 2016) you can use twonky server, that one has a dedicated sonos mode

[vanwesst]

Thanks. I am afraid that I'm a bit of a newbie. Can you send me a thread on twonky servers and where I can find it on QTS

[dolbyman]

It should be in the release notes of the latest firmware

[Don]

Song format issue? Permissions issue?

[graemev]

Are you doing it via an SMB share (//nasname-or-ip/Multimedia/Music) or DLNA (Twonky) if the latter, you need to enable "Sonos support" via web interface . If it's the former, make sure you have allowed sufficient permissions (try using admin user with the Sonos app...as a test)

[P3R]

Sonos can access CIFS/SMB (Windows networking), which is the de-facto standard networking protocol with Windows, Mac, Linux and probaly some other operating systems. DLNA adds complexity and is in my opinion at best a workaround if anyone for some odd reason is unable to use CIFS/SMB.

My recommendation is to create a specific Sonos account on the Qnap and give it permissions (Read Only is enough) only to the sound files. Then add
\\NAS-IP-address-or-host-name\Shared_folder_name to the music library. All this of course only works if the sound files are supported by Sonos.