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ChrisD. · 16 Aug 2018 at 11:56

platypus said:
Would one play:5 be sufficient (if it has better Bass then I'd favour that)? I'm still able to send the Play:3 back if I've changed my mind (sure they wouldn't be unhappy if I'm upgrading to the more expensive one).

Play 5 gen 2 is far superior to a Play 3.

Admiral Huddy · 16 Aug 2018 at 14:15

platypus said:
@Admiral Huddy Does https://support.sonos.com/s/article/2072?language=en_US help?

Thanks platypus.. that is hopefully. I forgot to mention that we use a Virgin Tivo remote for everything but there's a link for that too so I'll give this a try tonight. Thanks again

Kol · 16 Aug 2018 at 14:23

@Admiral Huddy when you press the volume up/down when you first turn on the TV, does the message not give you an option to no longer see the alert? I use the playbase with my Samsung (older TV, 2016?) and when I set it to external device, when I press up/down it pops up a message and you can select not to see it again.

Also, if you do pair it with two play:1 it is pretty decent. My TV doesn't output 5.1 so I bought an HDMI switch with optical out, which passes through the 5.1 signal. If your's does, you can easily check, go to settings/about my system when playing something that is encoded for 5.1 and it will say if it is receiving/outputting a 5.1 signal.

Admiral Huddy · 16 Aug 2018 at 14:36

Hi Kol, It does i believe but it doesn't remember the choice.

Thanks for the tip.. I believe my optical out does output a 5.1 signal.. but will double check.

Kol · 16 Aug 2018 at 14:38

Great, try that, if you then choose the option to no longer be notified it should then be fine and you can carry on as usual. My TV has recently started exhibiting a just as annoying trait which is to accept that it's not doing the volume but still acknowledging, albeit it subtle, that I'm pressing the button whereas it didn't do that before. I've tried to convinced my wife that we need a new TV as a result but no luck just yet.

TALON1973 · 16 Aug 2018 at 15:48

Sound wise, what's the difference between the playbase / playbar?

platypus · 16 Aug 2018 at 18:01

ChrisD. said:
Play 5 gen 2 is far superior to a Play 3.

I've ordered a play:5. We shall see!

Where would be the best placement in the room drawn above (its 13.5mx6.5m)? I take it given its size/power I only really need one play:5?

ChrisD. · 16 Aug 2018 at 18:34

Placement is not hugely important as you can use True Play or whatever it's called to tune the sound.

Mariusz · 17 Aug 2018 at 00:31

Bought a Sonos Beam and wall mounted it below a 49"Sony TV in bedroom to beef up the sound. Very impressed so far, sounds great and loving the Alexa "smart" functionality.

I like how easy it was to setup, ie hdmi cable from bar to arc hdmi on TV and TV then passes through sound.

platypus · 19 Aug 2018 at 12:46

Doh I've just found out about the 65,000 song limit for your library. Might just have to scrap Sonos all together!

ChrisD. · 19 Aug 2018 at 12:55

platypus said:
Doh I've just found out about the 65,000 song limit for your library. Might just have to scrap Sonos all together!

You could use Plex which plays with Sonos.

platypus · 19 Aug 2018 at 13:06

Aye I'm just looking into that.

It's a pretty poor limitation though - I understand they may wish to focus on streaming services but such a limitation seems rather backwards to me.

TALON1973 · 19 Aug 2018 at 16:56

billystanton said:
Okay, so I stumbled across this and pretty sure it’s the 55B7.

I’m so pleased, looks like it fits in between the stand like a dream!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbfcTeA8IQ/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=21oaqbxcexvo

Did you buy one?

platypus · 19 Aug 2018 at 19:07

ChrisD. said:
You could use Plex which plays with Sonos.

No unfortunately it doesn't look like the Plex option is going to be feasible unfortunately.

I know its the official Sonos thread, but... what are my alternatives? I basically want Sonos but without the song limitation.

Actually hum; I wonder. So using some powershell to recursively file count it looks like I have 62,348 files; so I wonder why its hitting its limits.

ChrisD. · 19 Aug 2018 at 21:13

Why doesn’t Plex work?

I believe album artwork etc counts toward the file count.

billystanton · 19 Aug 2018 at 21:59

TALON1973 said:
Did you buy one?

I did! Only tested with music so far, but paired with a sub and 2 One’s it’s fantastic!

platypus · 20 Aug 2018 at 16:06

ChrisD. said:
Why doesn’t Plex work?

I had a look last night and it seems I have to open a route through my firewall, as in it can't handle it all internally?

I'll investigate it more though.

TALON1973 · 20 Aug 2018 at 17:19

billystanton said:
I did! Only tested with music so far, but paired with a sub and 2 One’s it’s fantastic!

Can you please try it out by itself and give an opinion on it? Thanks

ChrisD. · 20 Aug 2018 at 18:50

platypus said:
I had a look last night and it seems I have to open a route through my firewall, as in it can't handle it all internally?

I'll investigate it more though.

I wouldn't have thought you'd need Plex to have external access unless you're doing Plex web. I have Plex myself, albeit a 'Plus' member or whatever it's called, but from what I recall you can use it to manage Music and play it into Sonos. I can take a look tomorrow evening if you'd like?

Kol · 20 Aug 2018 at 19:12

Plex needs to authenticate with their servers, hence the requirement for external access.

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