Selecting From A Music Library - Sonos Controller for iPad Product Manual

Chapter 4: Managing and Playing Music
Music library setup
Adding a shared folder
To make another shared folder available to your Sonos system:
From the Settings menu, 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:
3.
• Touch Scan my network for shares to search for shared folders on your network that your music system is not cur-
rently accessing. 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 computer 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.
4.
Stop accessing a shared folder
From the Settings menu, select Music Library Management -> Music Library Setup.
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The shared music folders that are currently accessible to your Sonos system are displayed.
Touch the folder you wish to stop using, and touch Remove.
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Your music folder remains untouched on your computer, but you can no longer able to access it from the Sonos system.
Updating the music index
During the setup process, all of your available music folders are indexed for easy selection. If you add new music to a folder
that is already indexed, simply update your music index to add the new music to your Sonos music library.
From the Settings menu, touch Music Library Management -> Update Music Index Now.
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Touch Yes.
2.
Contributing artists
Contributing Artists are those who appear on individual tracks within an album, including those on a compilation or
soundtrack album. You can set your preferences to show or hide these individual artists within a Contributing Artists view.
From the Settings menu, touch Music Library Management.
1.
To change the View Contributing Artists setting, touch ON or OFF.
2.
The View Contributing Artists preference setting you select applies only to this controller. If you have another Sonos
controller, you can select a different Contributing Artist view for it.

Selecting from a Music Library

If necessary, touch
1.
Select the room you want to play music in.
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to display the Zone Menu.
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