Windows Media Player 11 - Sonos Controller for Mac or PC Product Manual

Sonos Controller for Mac or PC

Windows Media Player 11

The Sonos Wireless HiFi System is compatible with Windows Media Player 11. If you have Windows Media Player on your
computer, be sure to turn on media sharing in Windows Media Player so that the Sonos system can access the music stored
in your WMP library. When media sharing is turned on, Sonos can play all the music in your WMP library, including any DRM-
free songs you've downloaded from a music service.
Once you turn on media sharing in Windows Media Player, simply adjust the settings on your Sonos system to allow Windows
Media Servers to display.
Enabling Windows media sharing
Start Windows Media Player 11.
1.
Click Stream.
2.
Choose one of the following options:
3.
• Allow Internet access to home media
• Allow remote control of my player
• Automatically allow devices to play my media — you may want to choose this option so streaming will automatically
be allowed each time you add a new device to your network.
When you turn on media streaming, you can select More streaming options to see a list of your networked devices. You can
choose to allow or block individual devices.
Note: If you do not allow media streaming on all Sonos components, those Sonos
components will not be able to play the music stored in your Windows Media Player library.
Displaying Windows Media Servers on Sonos
Select File -> Preferences.
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From the General tab, select Advanced Options and check Show music from Windows media servers.
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