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Speakers falling out of airplay group

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January 25, 2022
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I use my iphone to stream YouTube Music Premium to my 5 room system via airplay 2. It used to work just fine, but since I added a pair of Fives i’ve been having trouble with the music stopping. The most common symptom is that the rooms with a pair of Fives and a room with just 1 One stop playing. This most recent time I noticed that they were no longer selected in the airplay 2 speaker group as shown on my iPhone’s airplay menu.

Anybody else having this trouble or have any ideas about what is going on?

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John B

Are you selecting multiple speakers to play to by Airplay, or are you grouping in the Sonos app then Airplaying to one of the group? I would expect the latter to be more stable.

bchertovAuthor

Avid Contributor I

I am selecting multiple speakers in airplay. I don’t see a way to group speakers in sonos and have that reflected in airplay. Please enlighten me!

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John B

I am selecting multiple speakers in airplay. I don’t see a way to group speakers in sonos and have that reflected in airplay. Please enlighten me!

Just Airplay to one of the speakers then group other speakers to it in the Sonos app.

bchertovAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Got it, thanks. It’s a 2-step process which is not ideal, but worth it if its reliable.

Is there a google assistant voice command (or better yet scene?) to do the grouping of the other speakers to the airplay-ing speaker?

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John B

I don't use GA but I think its very unlikely.

If there's a grouping you use often then you could set that up as a user-defined group. That's only going to save you a tap or two though.

bchertovAuthor

Avid Contributor I

thanks. I already have a user-group defined inside sonos.

Is the instability of sonos speakers grouped by airplay a known problem?

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John B

The problem is Airplay. You haven't been using Sonos groups up to now.

bchertovAuthor

Avid Contributor I

We I tried you suggestion, John B, and a few minutes in it stopped playing. :confounded: YouTube music was in play mode (displaying a pause symbol) but the song position marker wasn’t moving. Airplay still thought it was connected to the one speaker I connected to airplay in the beginning. When I reverted back it iPhone on the airplay menu it started playing again.

Any ideas?

Airgetlam

That certainly suggests some sort of wifi interference issue, as Sonos has no control over any application you are using AirPlay 2 on, all it functions as is a receiver of data.

It might be worth checking your network, as my guess would be that your phone is dropping the connection, which would be why the song position marker in the YouTube Music wasn’t moving. Any temporary music you would be hearing would be the buffer running out, and not actually music being transferred at the time.

Bruce

bchertovAuthor

Avid Contributor I

It might be worth checking your network, as my guess would be that your phone is dropping the connection, which would be why the song position marker in the YouTube Music wasn’t moving. Any temporary music you would be hearing would be the buffer running out, and not actually music being transferred at the time.

I can stream 4k video without a problem…

Having said that, is there a way to monitor my wifi network for momentary drop outs?

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