Product guide

Product Guide
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•Touch to search for shared folders on your network that your music system is not currently accessing. Touch to
select a share from the list, and then follow the on-screen prompts.
• Enter the path for the shared folder (example: \\computer\sharename, where computer is the network name for your
computer or NAS device, and sharename is the name of the top level shared folder, such as \\linkstation\music_share).
Viewing shared folders
1. From the Settings menu, touch Manage Music Library.
2. Touch Music Library Setup.
The shared music folders that are currently accessible to your Sonos system are displayed. (If a computer on your network is
turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the music on that computer will be unavailable to the Sonos system until the
computer is turned back on.)
Stop accessing a shared folder
1. From the Settings menu, touch Manage Music Library -> Music Library Setup.
The shared music folders that are currently accessible to your Sonos system are displayed.
2. Touch the folder you wish to stop using, and touch Remove Share. Your music folder remains untouched on your
computer, but you can no longer access it from the Sonos system.
Updating the music index
The Sonos system indexes your local music library so you can view your music collection by categories (such as artists,
albums, composers, genres, or tracks). During setup, all of your available music folders are indexed for easy selection. If you
add new music, simply update your music index to add this music to your local music library.
1. From the Settings menu, touch Manage Music Library.
2. Touch Update Music Index Now, and then touch Scan Now.
Scheduling automatic updates
1. From the Settings menu, touch Manage Music Library.
2. Check Schedule Music Index Updates.
3. Touch Music Index Update Time, and select the time you would like your music index to update each day.
To turn off automatic music index updates, uncheck Schedule Music Index Update.
Contributing artists
Contributing Artists are those who appear on individual tracks within an album, including those on a compilation or
soundtrack album. You can set your preferences to show or hide these individual artists within a Contributing Artists view.
1. From the Settings menu, touch Manage Music Library.
2. Check the View Contributing Artists setting to turn it on.