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Updated Baronial 5, 2021: While the situation on Windows hasn't changed, there is potentially light at the end of the tunnel. Windows 11 volition have support for Android apps and the Amazon App Store will be the first official partner. As the Sonos app is available through Amazon, it could conceivably be used on a Windows 11 PC to setup a Sonos system. We'll know more than when Windows 11 is launched later in 2021.

Updated July 17, 2019: Sadly, Sonos no longer supports setting up a arrangement on Windows or on Mac with the Sonos Controller app. The application used beneath still exists and can be downloaded from Sonos support, just sadly only to listen to music. To prepare a system y'all must now apply the Sonos mobile app on either Android or iOS. Our pals at Android Central have a comprehensive guide on how to go going you should bank check out.

The first thing y'all need to do is download the installer for Windows. You lot'll find that at the link below.

• Download Sonos Controller for Windows

Then follow these steps:

1. Install Sonos Controller

A procedure as straight forward equally information technology sounds. Once you've downloaded the file linked to a higher place, open up it upward and follow the onscreen prompts equally shown in these images. You'll be asked to dictate where you lot want Sonos to install on your machine, but once you lot've clicked "Install" leave it a minute to do its affair.

two. Set upwards a new Sonos network

If you're reading this chances are you're setting up for the first time. Still, if yous're just new to using Windows to command your system, you'll encounter this box when you open the app for the first time, too. The departure is yous'll just click "Connect to Existing System" and the app will find your setup on its own.

The option above, "Gear up up New Arrangement" is what we want here.

It's also important to note at this point that no thing how many units you're planning to install on your network, you lot can just add them one at a time. Once the arrangement is set it'll be a shorter process to add together new players to it subsequently on.

3. Choose your network type

This determines whether you lot're only going to be using your local Wifi network to connect the speakers together, or if yous're using additional Sonos hardware to create a proprietary one. If you have a Sonos Boost or Bridge, for example, select "Boost Setup." Simply since we're looking at Wifi we're going to go ahead and select "Standard Setup."

iv. Plug it in, simply only the ability

No, really. OK, y'all plugged it in straight abroad, just in that location'southward an additional reminder here. Power is good (of course) simply Ethernet is less so. So if you went alee and connected your first bit of Sonos kit upwards to your router with a cable, pull it out.

If you need to connect via Ethernet at any time, setup will prompt yous to to so.

5. Wait for the green light

Then you merely accept to expect a picayune while for the app to connect to the player.

six. Set up your Wifi network

Sonos requires a 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g network to operate. Providing you lot're good on this front, just enter your local Wifi network details and striking "Side by side."

7. Designate a room

And that's it! You should now come across something like the image in a higher place telling y'all that y'all've successfully added your first Sonos player. The organisation is at present set and from hither you go forward and personalize as well every bit calculation as many extra players equally you want.

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