Server Version#: plexinc/pms-docker:latest Player Version#: Sonos Hi, I purchased a lifetime Pless Pass subscription a few days ago, with the main goal of using my Plex Media Server from my Sonos system. Unfortunately, and despite a lot of research, I can’t use Plex from the Sonos app. I under…

There is no account clearing. What was happening in the past we were clearing the cache for the service as whole. But that does not work anymore as far as we can tell.

While digging -again- with this problem, came to the probable source: Some tracks can be played on Sonos But mostly it fails with interesting message in PMS log : WARN - [Req#2747/Transcode] Streaming Resource: Bandwidth exceeded: 2147483647 kbps > 8000 kbps There are other warnings in the log, …

A poll on my flac files that can be played to Sonos or not led to: With bitrate between 2735 and 6217: OK With bitrate between 933 and 994: Fails

Problem wih Plex source in Sonos - Many flac files can't play

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p_ma29 April 23, 2026, 2:26pm 5

Looks like putting “internet upload speed” to 0 in the remote access settings fixed the issue
Thanks Benoit1 @ Unable to play some tracks with Sonos - Plex Media Server - Plex Forum

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