We've had a Sonos system for about 2 years now - a Bridge component and 2 Play speakers. When it works, it's great - but it frequently stops playing or doesn't start at all - in short it's very buggy and completely unreliable.<p>What does HN use for this type of wireless music playing? We'd like to be able to play our music from a NAS and internet radio/Spotify/Pandora.<p>If anyone has advice on making Sonos work - here are the things I've tried:
- 2 different routers (an old Netgear router, currently Apple Airport Extreme)
- manually setting channels for the router and Sonos
- trying multiple Airport 802.11 options (standard, only n, only b/g, etc etc)
- forcing compression of the Sonos music stream
- moving the various Sonos components around in an attempt to reduce interference
- changed Sonos DNS to OpenDNS (recommended by Sonos support)
- numerous complete Sonos resets
- numerous Sonos component reboots
- 15-20 calls to Sonos support with many diagnostics submitted and (obviously) no resolution
Are you using a Mac? If you get an Airport Express, you can use Airplay[1][2] and just plug in some speakers.<p>[1] <a href="http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24294-using-airplay-with-pandora" rel="nofollow">http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24294-using...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/Stream-Spotify-using-Airplay" rel="nofollow">http://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/Stre...</a>
For what it's worth, my Sonos bridge and Play:5 barely worked on the Airport Extreme. I switched over to a new Linksys router and it works pretty well now - and the Windows desktop app even works (it didn't before). I have my music library hooked up to the Windows app via a network share.<p>The biggest issue is still when a component powers down, you still need to search for it again.