How do I get access from WD MyCloud Home to Sonos

Your WD My Cloud Home and Sonos can work together, but there’s a catch — **Sonos can’t directly read music from a My Cloud Home over the network like it can with a traditional NAS**.

This is because My Cloud Home runs a different operating system than the older My Cloud devices and **doesn’t support standard SMB/CIFS file sharing in the same way**.

Here’s how you can still make it work:

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## **Option 1 – Use the Sonos Music Library via a Computer**

1. **Install WD Discovery** on your PC/Mac and connect your My Cloud Home.

2. Your My Cloud Home will mount as a local drive (e.g., `M:` on Windows or appear in Finder on macOS).

3. **In the Sonos app**:

* Go to **Settings** → **System** → **Music Library** → **Music Library Setup** → **Add Share**.

* Point Sonos to the mounted drive’s music folder.

4. Keep in mind: Your computer will need to be **on and connected** whenever Sonos needs to play music from it.

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## **Option 2 – Move Music to a Shared NAS or Local Folder**

If you have another NAS (e.g., My Cloud EX2, PR4100, Synology, etc.) that supports SMB, you can store the music there and connect Sonos directly to it.

* Sonos needs a traditional SMB v1 or v2 share.

* My Cloud Home doesn’t expose its drive that way to Sonos.

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## **Option 3 – Use a Streaming Service**

If your music is already in iTunes, Plex, or uploaded to a streaming service (Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, etc.), you can add that service to Sonos and avoid the local file issue entirely.

* My Cloud Home can run **Plex Media Server**, and Sonos supports Plex integration.

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💡 **Best method for most people:**

Install Plex Server on My Cloud Home → Add your music library to Plex → Link Plex to Sonos. This way, Sonos streams directly from the My Cloud Home without needing your computer on.

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If you want, I can give you **step-by-step instructions for setting up Plex on WD My Cloud Home and linking it to Sonos** so it works seamlessly. That’s the smoothest setup.