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CodeSlinger
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December 19, 2015
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Pretty please - Build a Play:Win device

  • December 19, 2015
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I absolutely love the Sonos Windows and Android apps and my new 5.1 and other Play speakers. You did an excellent job on this system!

I also want to listen to all the great music sources while working at my PC and don't always want to bother everyone else turning on the real speakers (I develop Windows software at home).

Please create a new "Play:Win" device that can be a Sonos "Room" which can send audio to any of the Windows Playback devices. E.G. headset, speakers, digital audio S/PDIF 5.1 etc. same as how a user can select audio playback output on a PC. You can build a Windows device driver to do this.

This way I can use my local USB headset and you don't need to come out with those wireless headsets quite so soon.

I don't want to have to also run WinAmp or Kodi or something to play my local FLAC files that I can already play via Sonos reading my NAS drive.

And I want to use the great features in the Sonos app for internet radio, playlists, favorites etc. which would be yet additional apps if I can use Sonos.

Please add a Play:Win device as part of the Sonos PC app.

You of course could also build Play:Android etc. but I sit at my PC all day and that one is top priority :D

Please consider this especially for the Windows PC.

Thanks for your consideration. This would set Sonos way above the emerging IP speaker crowd!

Dave
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      Best answer by Chris
      I currently have a connect hooked between my PC output and my PC speakers. That makes my PC a Sonos Zone where I can play anything from my PC to any Sonos speaker in the house and I can play Sonos music to my PC speakers (making them a zone and I could just as easily have a splitter to use my wired headphones as well.

      If speakers are built into the PC you could hook the connect to the MIC/Audio input of your PC to play Sonos sound - and from the audio out to play PC sound to other Sonos units.

      How does the Connect not work for you?

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      ratty
      ratty
      December 20, 2016
      I'd like to know what protocols are going to be used to sync the DAC's autonomous clock with the Sonos hardware players.
      ratty
      ratty
      December 20, 2016
      I do not think the market of people with quality DAC's is as small as you think, given how many new models came out in 2016. I think it is actually Sonus's sweet spot tbh.
      Nonsense. Sonos' sweet spot is the PLAY:1.
      jgatie
      jgatie
      December 20, 2016

      Yes. Also, I do not think the market of people with quality DAC's is as small as you think, given how many new models came out in 2016. I think it is actually Sonus's sweet spot tbh.

      We will agree to disagree. Regardless, the vast majority of PCs made have no such capabilities, so for those standard PCs not equipped with specialized equipment, the above applies. Also applicable is the fact that Sonos would be cannibalizing sales a la Squeezebox if they released a PC based emulator, and we all know what happened to Squeezebox.

      Bottom line, Sonos isn't going to make your PC/Mac into a Sonos player. Period.
      Meccanica
      Meccanica
      Lyricist III
      December 20, 2016

      Yes. Also, I do not think the market of people with quality DAC's is as small as you think, given how many new models came out in 2016. I think it is actually Sonus's sweet spot tbh.

      We will agree to disagree. Regardless, the vast majority of PCs made have no such capabilities, so for those standard PCs not equipped with specialized equipment, the above applies. Also applicable is the fact that Sonos would be cannibalizing sales a la Squeezebox if they released a PC based emulator, and we all know what happened to Squeezebox.

      Bottom line, Sonos isn't going to make your PC/Mac into a Sonos player. Period.

      I doubt they would make it as well... That does not mean spreading incorrect information as fact is good form. A high-end pro grade DAC is not the only option here for your cited "Clock" issue which is total crap.

      OLD INFO, PROBLEM SOLVED YEARS AGO:
      http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/454839-tested-why-high-end-pc-sound-card-matters/
      jgatie
      jgatie
      December 20, 2016

      I doubt they would make it as well... That does not mean spreading incorrect information as fact is good form. A high-end pro grade DAC is not the only option here for your cited "Clock" issue which is total crap.

      OLD INFO, PROBLEM SOLVED YEARS AGO:
      http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/454839-tested-why-high-end-pc-sound-card-matters/

      You should probably read the thread again if you think this is 100% reclocking. There are other factors at work here, the most significant of which is the timing between synchronized players. But hey, think what you want. Your input means nothing to the fact it isn't going to happen.
      Meccanica
      Meccanica
      Lyricist III
      December 21, 2016

      I doubt they would make it as well... That does not mean spreading incorrect information as fact is good form. A high-end pro grade DAC is not the only option here for your cited "Clock" issue which is total crap.

      OLD INFO, PROBLEM SOLVED YEARS AGO:
      http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/454839-tested-why-high-end-pc-sound-card-matters/

      You should probably read the thread again if you think this is 100% reclocking. There are other factors at work here, the most significant of which is the timing between synchronized players. But hey, think what you want. Your input means nothing to the fact it isn't going to happen.

      I was referring/correcting the misinformation portion. Nor was I expecting they would make it.
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