Media streaming to SONOS
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:35 am
This is essentially about the best way I can stream music from my music library to my Sonos, but....I moved from a Windows "server" that I managed with MediaMonkey to a QNAP NAS a couple of years ago. I've started looking into trying to get my QNAP to act as a music server.
Even before I got the NAS, I had never really figured a good way to link my music library to my Sonos system, meaning my music library has been gathering dust and I've been using Spotify more and more. But given my music library is mostly high res audio, it's such a waste - and as I tend to listen to mixes rather than albums or my own playlists, Spotify just keeps serving up the same music.
I generally listen to random mixes, based on rating and occasionally genre. (my most used playlist is an auto playlist >4* across all genres except spoken) But my file metadata is pretty good across my MediaMonkey library - ratings are definitely included in the file metadata (I guess pretty much all of the other metadata would be scraped by whatever scraping service the media servers use).
I copied all of my music into a music share on my NAS but done nothing more with it. I've still got a full copy on my PC as well, which I still manage with MediaMonkey - I just never listen on my PC any more. I use Plex for my movies and TV, and it's great for that, but awful for audio. It can't read ratings, can't import playlists, etc. So I can't manage my music in a useful way. I don't know about any other music servers available on QNAP, but....
What I want to be able to do is manage my NAS music library in the same way I do with MediaMonkey locally, or Plex for my videos. Basically have a great, intuitive and clear GUI on my PC that manages my media server library, reads all of my existing ratings, playlists, etc. allows me to create auto playlists based on the metadata, and then allows me to play those on Sonos.
Would be great if Sonos had an existing integration, but I think that's unlikely. So I guess it would be through the Media Server plug in (which doesn't seem to be accepting songs from my media server and doesn't have a shuffle option!) or using the Sonos music library (which works, does have a shuffle option, but doesn't have a filter on ratings.... so I'd have to cheat that use a ratings generated playlist)
Anyone got any suggestions???
(Can you just build a MediaMonkey server for QNAP NASs that does all of this AND integrates with Sonos please?!?!?!?!?!?!? )
Even before I got the NAS, I had never really figured a good way to link my music library to my Sonos system, meaning my music library has been gathering dust and I've been using Spotify more and more. But given my music library is mostly high res audio, it's such a waste - and as I tend to listen to mixes rather than albums or my own playlists, Spotify just keeps serving up the same music.
I generally listen to random mixes, based on rating and occasionally genre. (my most used playlist is an auto playlist >4* across all genres except spoken) But my file metadata is pretty good across my MediaMonkey library - ratings are definitely included in the file metadata (I guess pretty much all of the other metadata would be scraped by whatever scraping service the media servers use).
I copied all of my music into a music share on my NAS but done nothing more with it. I've still got a full copy on my PC as well, which I still manage with MediaMonkey - I just never listen on my PC any more. I use Plex for my movies and TV, and it's great for that, but awful for audio. It can't read ratings, can't import playlists, etc. So I can't manage my music in a useful way. I don't know about any other music servers available on QNAP, but....
What I want to be able to do is manage my NAS music library in the same way I do with MediaMonkey locally, or Plex for my videos. Basically have a great, intuitive and clear GUI on my PC that manages my media server library, reads all of my existing ratings, playlists, etc. allows me to create auto playlists based on the metadata, and then allows me to play those on Sonos.
Would be great if Sonos had an existing integration, but I think that's unlikely. So I guess it would be through the Media Server plug in (which doesn't seem to be accepting songs from my media server and doesn't have a shuffle option!) or using the Sonos music library (which works, does have a shuffle option, but doesn't have a filter on ratings.... so I'd have to cheat that use a ratings generated playlist)
Anyone got any suggestions???
(Can you just build a MediaMonkey server for QNAP NASs that does all of this AND integrates with Sonos please?!?!?!?!?!?!? )