{"id":7852,"date":"2018-06-20T15:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:50:06","slug":"how-to-install-sonos-controller-noson-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/how-to-install-sonos-controller-noson-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Sonos Controller ‘Noson’ in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking to control music from your Sonos devices in Ubuntu? Noson is a fast and smart controller for your SONOS devices that is written with QML\/C++.<\/p>\n

With Noson app<\/a>, you can browse your music library and play track or radio on any zones. You can manage grouping zones, queue, and playlists, and fully control the playback.<\/p>\n

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Install Noson from Ubuntu Software or App Center:<\/h4>\n

The snap package of Noson, universal Linux package format runs in sandbox, is available in Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n

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For those who hate Ubuntu Software, run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install Noson snap:<\/p>\n

snap install noson<\/pre>\n
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Install Noson in Ubuntu via PPA:<\/h4>\n
For those who prefer traditional .deb package, Noson is also available to install via in the PPA repository<\/a> for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10 on Intel\/AMD CPU platform.<\/p>\n
1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jlbarriere68\/noson-app<\/pre>\n
type your password (no asterisk feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Then check updates and install the software either via Synaptic package manager or by running commands in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install noson-app<\/pre>\n
Once installed, launch the software and it automatically searches for your Sonos devices.<\/p>\n
Uninstall:<\/h4>\n
To remove Noson Sonos controller, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove noson-app<\/pre>\n
To remove the PPA, launch Software & Updates<\/b> and navigate to Other Software<\/b> tab, then remove the source line and reload.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking to control music from your Sonos devices in Ubuntu? Noson is a fast and smart controller for your SONOS devices that is written with QML\/C++. With Noson app, you can browse your music library and play track or radio on any zones. You can manage grouping zones, queue, and playlists, and fully control the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1546,1547],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-sonos-controller-for-ubuntu","tag-sonos-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}