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Network Buffer Playback Errors: Nothing is fixing this

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So I was having a problem with my Sonos and music dropping out when playing lossless files from my iTunes library. Sonos was getting my iTunes music from a laptop that is connected via WiFi. It was "working" but I know it is an unsupported configuration. I say "working" because it wouldn't always drop out. Usually when I play lossless files I get a lot of skipping due to "NETWORK CONNECTION SPEED INSUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN PLAYBACK BUFFER" errors. The music would stop playing and then after a bit of time the next song would come on. That song would play for a few seconds and the same thing would happen.

I decided that the problem must be because of the fact the files were located on my laptop which was connected via Wifi. So, I moved my iTunes library to my Apple Time Capsule which is my main Wifi router and where the Sonos Bridge is directly connected via Ethernet.

I'm still having the same issue. Often when I play lossless files on multiple Sonos devices I get dropouts (I have two Play 5's, one Play 3, and one Connect that is also connected via Ethernet to the Time Capsule). I say often because sometimes I can play Lossless files on all my speakers and not have any problems.

I've made sure my Sonos was on a wireless channel (channel 1) that was far away from my Wifi channel (2.5Ghz channel 11, 5 Ghz Channel 48). I also used iStumbler to make sure there were no networks in the area using channels near mine (which is next to impossible so I chose channels that were the least used).

Audio compression is turned off.

My Sonos speakers are not that far from the Bridge. The furthest is about 30-35' away. But, this happens to all speakers and the stereo that is connected via ethernet to the Connect, so I doubt it's a distance issue.

I went through the causes and fixes here:
https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answe...l/a_id/309/kw/

and nothing applied to my situation.

So, why is this happening?

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