Managingyour Music Library; Music Library Set Up - Sonos CONTROLLER - FOR IPAD User Manual

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What is a music service?
A music service is an online music store or online service that sells audio on a per-song, per audiobook, or subscription basis.
To learn more about the music services available for Sonos customers, click Get Music in the Music Library (your browser will open
to a Sonos Web page
What is a Sonos playlist?
A Sonos playlist is a music queue you create and then save for future listening. For example, you might want to create a jazz
playlist, a party playlist, or an easy listening playlist.
What is radio?
Internet radio stations and radio shows are broadcasts provided by 3rd parties via the Internet. You can choose from thousands of
radio stations and radio shows from around the globe, including archived shows and podcasts. You can also add your own favorite
stations if they use streaming MP3 or WMA formats (not every radio station provides streams.)
What is Line-in?
You can connect an external line-in source such as a CD player, portable music player, or television to your Sonos Multi-Room
Music System, and this audio can be streamed to any ZonePlayer(s) in your house.

ManagingYour Music Library

The Sonos Multi-Room Music System can play music from any computer or network-attached storage (NAS) device on your home
network where you have shared music folders (music shares). During the setup process, you are guided through the process of
accessing these shared music folders. Over time, you may wish to add or remove music folders from this list.
Sonos is designed to work with large music collections. Music folders are indexed so you can view you music by categories— you
can index approximately 65,000 tracks to the Sonos library. If the metadata in your files contains lengthy artist, track, or album
names, your music index may fill up more quickly. For additional information, you can go to http://faq.sonos.com/musicindex.
• You can add or remove the shared folders Sonos accesses music from at any time. You may need to make changes if you
add a computer to your home network, or if you move shared folders from one location to another.
• If you add new music to a folder that is already indexed, simply update your music index to add this music to your library.
• To play music from imported playlists, drop the playlist file .PLS, .M3U or .WPL into the same music folder that you have
shared to the Sonos system, update your music index, and the custom playlists will appear when you select Imported Play-
lists from the Music menu.

Music Library Set Up

Adding a shared folder
To make another shared folder available to your Sonos Multi-Room Music System, touch
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Select Music Library Management>Music Library Setup.
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Touch Add New Share.
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Select one of the following options:
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• Touch Scan my network for shares to search for shared folders on your network that your music system is not currently ac-
cessing. Touch to select a share from the list. If prompted, type a login and password and then touch Done.
• Touch Enter the location of a share to add a new share that is not currently displayed as an option.
• Type the path for the shared folder (example: \\computer\sharename, where computer is the network name for your com-
puter or NAS device, and Sharename is the name of the top level shared folder, such as \\linkstation\music_share.) If
prompted, type a login and password and then touch Done.
Touch Done.
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