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is there going to be option to play music direct from android devices rather than have an external source?
is there going to be option to play music direct from android devices rather than have an external source?
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It would have likely been for the controller app not the streaming. The same setup is at Best Buy. It says something to the effect of control from your smart phone. . .
So I got my notification that there was to be an update to the Sonos App for Android along with system updates. I was hopeful, I opened the mail, read the detail and noticed it didn't mention the "Play music direct from music stored on Android devices". I thought "oh well, they've just not highlighted it?" but it's bound to be there, right?? WRONG!!! It seems that Android users have to vote to allow this feature, which is fundamental for a music service, so is just ridiculous. Sonos I ask you this did iOS users have to be invited to "add their support" to the idea of playing music directly from their devices? NO!!! Why would they? It should be and is an inherent feature for them! Imagine if you will......You want to buy a music app and a streaming music speakers system? After hefty research, you choose Sonos as everyone says "they're the best", you install and set it all up, you're excited now! You fire the app up and hey presto your music stored on your device is there and you sit back and enjoy the music......oh wait I must've been dreaming I had an iDevice because my reality was "oh wait how come I can't see my music?!? Sonos please wake up and realise that the world is free to choose the OS it has on their phones and not all of us want or care to own an iDevice. We want the dream of using our Android, or indeed Windows (other OS's are available), phones and be able to enjoy the same levels of Service and Functionality that iDevices do! Please Sonos make my dream a reality? I am sorely disappointed in Sonos after this update. I was looking to extend the Sonos equipment I own and add the Sonos Connect and a Play:3. But I cannot justify it while I am confined to Spotify and Tunein Radio (the only 2 services I use) I have music that isn't available on Spotify, and more to the point I want the ability to play music is Flac direct from my phone to my stereo system, Sonos should allow me to do this! I use BubleUPNP at present but this won't work when I have multiple Sonos devices I wish to stream to!!! Get you act together and give us equality with others on lesser OS's that use Sonos! Very disgruntled.....rant over.
Bravo to Jay, quite rightly said. Its seems lately (well over the last year or so) i am constantly reading articles stating how android phones and tablets are starting to dominate the market place. This has even got to the point in recent weeks where some tech journalists are starting to say that apple is falling behind and is no longer leading the field. I understand that one of the claimed issues with Android is that it operates on a wide range of handsets, all with different specs and capabilities. This tends to be the general excuse for why certain apps are not released on android, or in Sonos case, are limited in their functions. However, since Android 4.0 we have started to see a standard be set for android devices. Now i dont pretend to know the ins and outs of how apps work across different handsets, so i may be mistaken here, but what puzzles me more is that the users in this forum have already highlighted on several occasions that there are solutions to be found on the marketplace today.... bubblepnp for one. Therefore, is it really that hard to add this functionality to the android sonos app? Would it cost sonos that much time and money to develop such a solution? As Jay has stated above, did Iphone users have to grovel, beg and vote for what appears to be such a obvious function? One that this forum has highlighted we already assumed was possible. One of the main issues for me though has been the way the sonos devices are set up in store. It may not be the same everywhere, but on the several stores I visited before purchasing my sonos device, the sonos stand had both a PLAY:3 and a PLAY:5 connected to android phone. Quite clearly, this suggests that you can play music off your phone. Not just control it. It seems cheeky that an android phone was chosen for the Sonos stands and not an Apple. It seems to verge on mis-selling, misleading the customer. Come on Sonos, wake up. Provide us with a solution. At least provide us a response to let us know your thoughts and plan of action. Or no doubt the rants will just continue. For me, the PLAY:3 was just going to be the start, i had hoped to add more devices to my home to really achieve the potential of what Sonos has to offer. It seems like such a good idea, but is let down by this one major issue. Until this is solved i will not be expanding my Sonos collection. Good day sir!
I am really in trouble - I can't play from my Android phone - I can't play from Google play - I can't play from Amazon cloud player - It is really hard work being a Sonos customer all of my streams are not available - Playing from all of these sources is a must have not an option for consideration - just get on with it Sonos so your customers can use their very very expensive systems how they want to use them - stop procrastinating
James - You are correct when you say about the set up of the demonstration units in store (pc world in my case) that had the music streaming straight from an Android handset - if it can be done in store why on earth can't we do it as customers - this is THE reason why I bought my Sonos - mis-sold is correct..
I am really in trouble - I can't play from my Android phone - I can't play from Google play - I can't play from Amazon cloud player - It is really hard work being a Sonos customer all of my streams are not available - Playing from all of these sources is a must have not an option for consideration - just get on with it Sonos so your customers can use their very very expensive systems how they want to use them - stop procrastinating
I think what you dont see in store is a laptop hidden out of view. I.e. what you're actually seeing is an android phone controlling the music stored on the laptop. But what you believe you are seeing, and what i believe some store staff have informed sonos customers, is music stored on an android phone being played through a sonos system. Only when you get home do you find this is not the case.
Bubble installs add agency spyware on your phone - Skifta does not and works - however both are poor solutions to a problem that should not exist - Sonos support is very very poor for a premium priced product we should not be on here looking for solutions to a problem that should not exist.
Why is there even an android app if it doesn't work?
The android app does work. It allows you to control your sonos system. It's a controller app not a streaming app.
Machiel - Indeed the app does work as a controller - they have managed to make the ios version play from the handset so how difficult could it be to just add the ability to use your phone as the source in exactly the same way you do when you set up a nas box its just a reference to a source surely - ios and Android are both Linux based so why they can't is baffling when 3rd party apps such as Skifta will play to Sonos - my only conclusion can be is that Apple have said to Sonos that they can stream from Apple products as long as they don't allow Android users to have the same experience, this would not surprise me if it is the truth knowing Apple and their hate for Android.
Rather and sit back and wait for enough people find this link and vote for true Android support, Sonos should be PRO-ACTIVE and find out what device their customers are using and would like to use. That would all of about 15 minutes to send out an email to the 8,600 members of this community and get their take on the subject. Then do some extrapolations of the public at large to determine the direction of the market for Android. A product manager worth his/her salt would have done this months ago and made the easy conclusion that Sonos is missing the mark. I have a NAS that I play from now, but that's a cumbersome solution and sometimes I just want to play a song from my device. That's the goal here.
+1 I originally planed to buy a Sonos system. But I don't want to be treated second class compared to iOS users. Maybe it's time to look for an alternative. Regards, Fabian
I went into PC World today and asked them where the music is stored that is played through the demonstration unit - they told me it is on the phone (an htc) not on a laptop - the display unit is setup by Sonos - so they can play directly from the phone, it seems Sonos have not enabled it on the app - I would like to know why and if Sonos know that people are buying systems with this in mind and finding they can't do it....
It's not on the phone. It may have been streaming from an online service, or an NAS, but it wasn't on the phone. If that guy is anything like most salespersons at a big box store, he knows as much about the workings of Sonos as he knows about quantum physics or brain surgery. The *very* last person I would trust for information about electronics is a sales drone.
Hi, i even asked the salesperson if he was sure it was on the phone - he went and asked the Sonos in-store specialist who said it was on the phone - if it is not on the phone then none of them know what they are selling - mis-selling
It wasn't on the phone. I don't care if the guy claimed he asked John MacFarlane himself, it wasn't on the phone. You should go back and ask to see the music on the phone deleted and then attempt to play it. Quite frankly; this speculation that Sonos has this function working in its demos to fool people into thinking it works, or they have somehow "hidden" this function from the user's once they get it home, is smack dab in the middle of tin-foil hat territory. Not everything is a conspiracy people, especially in regard to First World problems with luxury items like music streamers.
Give it a rest Carl.
Enough already.
Is there another possibility? The phone on display is plugged in. I had always assumed that this was to charge the phone but could it be connected to the devices and sending music this way?
Sonos devices have no USB ports for the phone to connect to, but if the USB share on the phone were mapped to a drive on a PC, and the PC was sharing the mapped drive to Sonos, that could work. However, that would still require a PC, and why would Sonos share from a phone when a PC was available?
True. So it would appear that the only option left is that the phone is acting as a controller. But what it's controlling is still unknown.
Can I just add my vote to this feature. Also if anyone knows how to get bubbleUpnp to steam to multiple sonos renderers at the same time (party mode?) please let me know
I too agree, please Sonos hurry up and add this ability for Android. I paid a lot of cash for my kit and now i've moved to Samsung Note it hardly seems fair that i cannot use streaming.. I'm looking to add more units around the house but will hold off if you only support iphones
Absolutely need this! Leaving the Android / Google market out in the cold
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