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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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I also agree. I just bought some components too, and I'm almost inclined to cancel the order without this feature. It's not made terribly clear that you can't stream from Android (esp. since you can still stream Apple). And yes, I'm aware that I could just pair a Bluetooth speaker to my phone, but that's at odds with the simple, flexible, intuitive universality of the system that Sonos is trying to promote. It appears to be a solid product with good word of mouth behind it, but if Sonos prefers large-scale success over relegation to a niche market, they should be inclusive of every way someone might want to use their system.
I agree, just purchase the system, and I was under the impression that the system had the ability to play music on your android. How disappointing when I found out it doesn't (EASILY). So, please consider this as a high priority enhancement for the system especially considering the cost of the product. You have a huge following, and the android community should be treated as a high priority as is the iPhone community.
Yes! I wouldn't see why iOS user get the love and Android users aren't! As stated above, Android has a whole bigger market share than iOS! (of course Sonos can set its limitations, but at least make it available) Thanks a lot in advance!
Very well said James! I'm still at work and had not had the opportunity to look at Gordon's response. I see you beat me to the punch but since I don't think I could have said it better myself - all I can say is thank you!
Thank you Gordon, but with all due respect i dont think your answer is going to please this community. This feature shouldnt be under consideration, it should be planned. It is a feature that a great percentage of your customers require. It should have been under development for a while now, and it should have been clear to a company such as yourselves that this feature would be needed. No more so due to the fact that your store demos suggest that this is already the case. I think what we really need to hear from you is why this is currently not possible. What limits the sonos system from direct play from a android device. This forum has identified several available android apps as a workaround to the solution we desire. But this just adds to the confusion. Please Gordon, if you cant offer us an answer on when we can expect this feature, please, tell us why. And it's worth pointing that i'm sure im not the only contributor of this forum that has been impressed with your new playbar, but until this feature is activated please consider my purchase of the Sonos Playbar................. "Under Consideration".
Hello, We read and pass along all Ideas to our Product Development team. We have marked this Ideas as "Under Consideration". The definitions of what these statuses mean can be found here: https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/idea_status_definitions
Do Sonos reps even look at these topics? It seems this discussion has become very heated and yet there has not been a peep out of them. Not even a word of comfort to know that they are at least looking into it. We Android users have gotten the cold shoulder from them and this is what has me most disturbed.
The hard part here is that Sonos is Airplay compatibe. Airplay, unfortunately, is propitiatory software by Apple.. Some Android apps are Airplay 'capable' (by reverse engineering Airplay software and implementing this), however, these apps are still fairly crippled. Let's hope Sonos can implement a similar feature for Android (and Windows Phone) devices...
Let's hope they will add proper support for Android soon. I would also like to use the Spotify app on my Android to stream to Sonos, as it's much better compared to Spotify's implementation in the Sonos app. I'm about to expand my wireless audio solution and although Sonos' propitiatory system is closed, there's no proper alternative right now. But I will move to something like the Puro Jongo if Sonos stops innovating
well, give and take....
And iPhone users could say Android's widget, notification and ability to connect directly to Sonosnet is leaving iPhone users out in the cold. The reality is something different.
Absolutely need this! Leaving the Android / Google market out in the cold
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
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
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.
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?
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?
Enough already.
Give it a rest Carl.
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.
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'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.
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....
+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
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.
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