Absolute Sonos

I have a small Sonos system at home, with a bridge, two zones and one controller. Although the zones form their own mesh and have a level of resiliency, the weak link in the chain (in my installation) is the bridge from the Sonos network to the home network and NAS where the MP3 files are stored.

Unfortunately, the last time I powered up the computer system after fixing a plug, there was a loud bang from underneath the desk as the power supply to the Sonos Bridge blew up.

When I rang Absolute Sonos to source a replacement, they very kindly sent one out FoC. I thought it was very kind & generous – certainly somewhere to go when I expand the existing system.

The system is now working perfectly again. Thank you.

Adding NAS folders to a Library

Just found this great article that adds folders on a NAS Drive (Buffalo TeraStation in my case) to a Windows 7 library.

'Read the Effin Blog! - 10 October 2009'

Method 1 works perfectly!

17 January 2010 - Update

It may be unrelated, but I’ve been getting a number of ‘Network Busy’ errors from the system. The linked files that I’d created pointed to folders that were subfolders of mapped drives. It’s possible that this is causing a conflict, so I’ve removed the references to the links from the Libraries and from the system.

I’ll post an update in a few days if this fixes the problem.