I just downloaded the third-party app Sonify which released earlier this week and from a first impression it is much faster than the official app AND provides lockscreen controls on my iPhone incl. physical iphone volume buttons for volume control! How can it be that a third-party app does it better and gets released to the app store which somewhat suggests that lockscreen controls are not only reserved for Apple and Spotify apparently…
How come third-party app does it better with lockscreen controls?
Likely that the third party’s sales are so small that they haven’t been targeted by either Google or Apple yet, like Sonos was. I suspect it is just a matter of time before they’re forced, like Sonos, into compliance.
Bruce
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I just downloaded the third-party app Sonify which released earlier this week and from a first impression it is much faster than the official app AND provides lockscreen controls on my iPhone incl. physical iphone volume buttons for volume control! How can it be that a third-party app does it better and gets released to the app store which somewhat suggests that lockscreen controls are not only reserved for Apple and Spotify apparently…
For the volume buttons there’s been some discussion of this on Reddit. To summarize others’ comments: Sonify is using the (newish) iOS Now Playing API. Maybe this is something Sonos could support if they see this as a priority.
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Sonify does not use the UPnP APIs that you are referring to, it uses the super-secret LAN Control API.
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