Airplay 2 - Only for the new Sonos One

To address your uneducated guess (ASS-umption) Chris, I'm familiar with both Airplay 1 and 2, but what does that have to do with Sonos failing to add Airplay 1 support over a year ago? In a nutshell, AP1 is a networked-based streaming technology with an uncompressed stream that makes playing my and my friends' content extremely easy—what could be better? If you re-read my reply above, you'll notice I never mentioned a flavor or Airplay—I just want Airplay support. I'm fully aware that Apple just announced Airplay 2 on 1/23/18. I guess I could've parked my initial reply on an AP1 thread.

Airplay1 is horrible and has little in common with how Sonos casts. Why would they add airplay1. A year ago when it was by then already a dead protocol

Chris, please explain why Airplay 1 was horrible?

and I'm don't even know why I even debating this after your calling me an Ass.

Or you can’t read my post above that

I did a/b comparisons in my neighbors creation with airplay input and Sonos input. Same songs Sonos casting was 100% better quality.

Thank you for that onepissedcustomer. The forum search is not the best of tools :(

Can i make a suggestion. Start a new thread in troubleshooting section and give us some more detail information about your problem, we are all here willing to help.

As an aside most issues like the one you describe can be resolved with structured re-start of your router and connected devices. Turn of all wi fi connected devices. reboot your router and wait for it to come fully back onlin. Then start your Sonos devices followed by the rest of your equipment. Then report progress, which hopefully will be good news and allow you to calm down a bit.

Airplay has to play everything via the controlling device. It also re-encodes everything sent through it degrading quality.

Due to airplay having to download everything to phone/controller then compressing and sending back over wifi .... it is very prone to dropouts.

Compared to Sonos (or Chromecast when actually casting) which tells the speaker where to locate the stream and the speaker pulls directly from source.

I believe Airplay2 will still have the downloading to device etc. of airplay ... however apple has said it will buffer so as to not drop out like old airplay would do as you walked around house. Hopefully the codec is better as well so it doesn't degrade the audio quality like old airplay.

The compression used by airplay 1 is lossless as long as the source stream is less than or equal to cd quality. Only pro audio formats would see any degradation.

I’m quite disappointed wth the SONOS policy of the last few months. Firstly I discovered that the new interaction with Audible, long awaited, is not working in my country (and yet my country has both SONOS and Audible services), now I understand AirPlay 2 will only be available for new spekers. I wonder why! AirPlay 2 is only a matter of software updates; no hardware, no chips, no other stuff. Is this the way SONOS treat “old” customers (assuming that someone who bought a new speaker only two years ago may be considered an “old customer”)? Why didn’t SONOS make AirPlay 2 available for everyone? I bought SONOS, paying more than 100 euros more than any competitor, because they promised always updated devices. What has become of that promise? Will SONOS give any reason to their “old” customers?

Really disappointed in the announcement. While I understand Play 5 gen 1 being excluded, it seems to me that Any currently sold device should be supported. What about the Boost? There should be a reasonable way for people who have invested significant $ in sonos to be able to get Airplay2 without purchasing a new speaker.

Proof being the playbar play3 and play1 are all currently sold devices. If they could add to those older chipsets they would. Why would they favor a playbase and give it ability and not the playbar if it wasn’t hardware related. They don’t want you to buy playbase over playbar. So anynclaim they want you to have to buy current equipment is invalid. Would you rather they go the route they did for years and say none gets airplay because we want all devices to have same ability. No that held Sonos back for years.

The airport express was built for airplay and sold as an airplay device - no relation to adding to an existing piece of hardware not designed ever to run airplay. Some designed and sold prior to existence of airplay and never even hinted at remotely having airplay ability.

Get a Sonos One and then you have ability to play to all your older equipment. That is not an unreasonable need to add ability to legacy equipment. I feel lucky we are getting a free upgrade to a completely new standard. Free by Sonos. Thank you Sonos for keeping our investment up to date.

And reviewing my original posting, I can see that I was writing one thing while thinking another. So I apologize for that. That being said, when airplay 2 finally sees the light of day, we'll know what the processing requirements will be.