- Jriver media center and sonos how to#
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One way I thought of was to export all playlist, and run synctoy to upload all the files to the server.
Jriver media center and sonos how to#
More relevant is how to get your beloved music files and playlists into Sonos. Artists, albums etc all show up where you expect they willĪs a MC user I don't have to explain you how to manage your music library. m3u playlist you have in your scanned directory, which will then populate the imported playlists part of the controller. You can manually (re)build the index, or it can do it for you. It will scan these and build its own database and it'll know where to find the music files on the network, no need to keep your MC computer on all the time. In the Sonos controller software, you can select one or more network shares to index. \\WHS\Music is where all music files live I've set up the separate \\WHS\Music\Sonos as I still want to be able to put music stuff in other directories not indexed by Sonos, but if you don't need this, you can just point Sonos to \\WHS\Music WHS serves music files and playlists, and that's all it does in this story. My processed (fully metadated, playlisted etc) music sits in C:\Music\Genre, and I have a two directories for non-processed music that may have untagged or miscategorized information (C:\Music\Ripped CD and C:\Music\Incoming). ripping CD's, metadating, adding cover art, and I'm very playlist-driven in my music consumption so I have about a 100 carefully crafted smartlists for each occasion. On the desktop I manage & prepare music all in MC, e.g.
Jriver media center and sonos software#
I have a Sonos ZP90 and ZP120 zone and currently use Iphone and desktop controller software to control it.
Jriver media center and sonos Pc#
However there are no WHS specific parts to how I use Sonos & MC, so you can use any NAS or PC with filesharing that's on 24/7
I have a Windows Home Server on 24/7 with plenty of storage. My main workstation is a PC with Vista Home Premium and MC v14. Third but optional part in the equation is Windows Home Server, but that's not the part that matters in this post.Īnyway, I hope this info is useful for others that are considering the same combination, or trying out how to use it, so here's the way I've set up my MC and Sonos system: However I do believe that it is the best of both worlds: MC as the ultimate tool for managing a large music library, and Sonos with its perfect blend of hard- and software for managing the user experience throughout the house. Sonos creates its own library, rather than link into an external one, and builds its own library based on the tags in the files itself. Now I did quite a bit of research before my purchase and knew that integrating the Sonos system with my beloved MC system was not seamless. After years of thinking and trying different methods (Netremote, Rivermote, httpRemote, Itunes) and hardware (networked-USB adapters & USB audio sticks, Airport Express, MC client PC's) I finally caved in and bought a Sonos bundle.
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