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How do I access iTunes with my Sonos player?I installed the Sonos player, which seems to be a sleek little unit, but I don't understand how to play my iTunes music through it. How can I play my songs and playlists? The Sonos is a versatile system. One of the ways it achieves this is to use its own software. Therefore, you don't need to use iTunes, or even have it on your computer, to use your Sonos. Sonos imports all your songs into its own music playing software, called the "Sonos Desktop Controller." If you open up the desktop controller, you'll find all your music listed on the right hand side, by Albums, Artist, Songs, Composers, Genre and Playlists:  ![]() If you click on "Playlists" you'll see that any .m3u or .xml files that you had in your music library when you installed the Sonos are listed there. Let's say, however, that you want to listen to a new iTunes created playlist through the Sonos software. Not a problem! Just open up iTunes, right click on the playlist you want to add to the Sonos, then click on "Export Song List." Save it as file type .xml somewhere in the directory that you told Sonos to use as your music library when you set it up. You're almost done. Now just go to the Sonos Desktop Controller, and click "Music", then "Update Music Index Now." ![]() When the Sonos software is done importing new music and playlists, you'll be ready to listen to your music. Piece of cake!
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You seem to have contradicted yourself somewhat, if the system was versatile as stated, then it would let you play music through itunes, not by its own system. This is in fact the complete opposite of versatile. Posted by: Jack Gardner at June 8, 2008 4:15 PMI did hear that Sonos will not play itunes purchased files because of DRM, is this true? Posted by: Mac at November 25, 2008 12:45 PMHi, I recently bought an ex demo sonos system, and i am very impressed with it. Nigel Posted by: Nigel at April 13, 2009 2:01 PMCan you store your CDs on a Mac to be played via Sonos without using iTunes? We are concerned about compressing to mp3 files from better quality CD recordings. Thanks Posted by: Della Churchill at June 23, 2009 5:45 AMI followed the steps and it didn't work. The names of some of the playlists showed up but there were no songs in them. Where have I gone wrong/is there something else i need to do? Posted by: Vista user at September 19, 2009 1:48 AMDave can I transfer a genius playlist to my Sonos? I dont seem to be able to do it the same was as any other playlist I created myself? thanks heaps Posted by: mike at May 9, 2010 8:52 AMWhat a pain. I like my Sonos a lot, including the excellent iPhone app... but no recognition of all the music on that same iPhone? Nor its playlists? Incredible blunder. I didn't buy a Sonos so I could jack around with manual file management and playlist exportation every other day on my PC. Posted by: Darel Rex Finley at June 28, 2010 7:06 PMThanks mate, I just selected all the songs right clicked, exported it to a file which i saw within the sonos (wasnt too sure where to put it but just chukd it anywhere), updated the index and it worked. Cheers!! Posted by: Paul at August 23, 2010 11:10 PMRecently purchased Sonos S5 and zonebridge trying to 'add a share' to be able to listen to itunes "access denied check user name and password". Hi Dave, Thanks, I got my iTunes playlist to load to the Sonos system but most of the songs have m4a extension and will not play on sonos system. Only the songs without the m4a extension will play. Posted by: Preston at October 16, 2011 2:37 PMI bought à Play3 but Sonos Does not Play THE mp3 's directly from my iPad 1. Can i make my iPad sharable voor Sonos? Who knows how? Yes, Sonos does have its own software, but I don't like it. It's even harder to use than iTunes, and has all of iTunes' limitations. The question for me is, is there some way I can use my Sonos speaker wirelessly to play my iTunes library from my iMac. Perhaps some hardware to make Sonos Airport-supported?? Posted by: jdh at November 25, 2011 4:10 AMI also have the problem "access denied check user name and password" but I'm not using Kasperky.
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