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MrHoops
MrHoops
Contributor I
August 3, 2013

Stream from iPad DJ Apps to Sonos. iDJ2 & Traktor. INSTANT PARTY

  • August 3, 2013
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This seems like a no brainer to me. DJ Apps on the iPad are great, but sound output is limited, you have to be cabled. I Believe if this was a reality i would have already bought 2 more play 5 to replace my wired amp & speaker set up. Streaming the output from these apps to a multi room event would be a match made in heaven, its what Sonos set out to do isnt it? Then think of the commercial application, bars, clubs, open ipad night... THATS A FREEBIE BUT IM AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION 😉 Thank you & please support this idea. Matt ...and why not any laptop app come to mention, Logic, gargeband, reason, ableton etc etc - This could be big.
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      User381110
      Lyricist I
      April 25, 2015
      Yes pls support djay 2
      Jan Potters
      Lyricist I
      May 8, 2015
      Any news on this super good idea ?

      Thanks
      User8584
      Lyricist I
      May 17, 2015
      +1 On this. Just bought DJAy 2 without doing my research and frustratingly unable to use it as I wanted. Another disadvantage to not having the option of cable connection on Play 1's.
      Mike_159
      Lyricist I
      May 26, 2015
      I got this to work over the weekend using Nicecast: https://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ 

      It's $59, but it works well. First, start a broadcast through Nicecast using your DJ software (I used Djay for Mac). Go to the Broadcast pane in Nicecast, hit the "Share" button and copy the "local" M3u link. Go to Sonos and add a Radio Station under Manage using that local M3u link from Nicecast. Open Radio in Sonos and start streaming the link you just put in. I had about 3 second delay from the sound on my laptop to the Sonos speakers, but it worked just fine.
      Jokes007
      Contributor III
      September 14, 2015
      Please integrate the Djay App??!
      Are there actually no dj apps supported by Sonos?
      How is this possible???
      MarkB909
      Lyricist I
      September 25, 2015
      I would love this to happen too. It would be so much fun.
      buzz
      buzz
      Grand Maestro
      September 25, 2015
      Be sure to make your case with the DJ App developers. The developers can make this happen if they want to.
      johnbramly
      johnbramly
      Lyricist I
      September 30, 2015
      There is an elephant in the room, here.
      Sonos may not wish to deal with issue of there being a slight processing delay from the line-in to the sound-out. Making it pretty much impossible to use as dj speakers. Maybe a software update might be possible to delay by pass the processing, but I suspect it's a hardware issue.
      Now, where's that elephant? 😉
      The LHC
      September 30, 2015
      The delay is in the analogue to digital conversion required in order to pass line-in audio from one player to another, it can't be defeated by software.
      Spindicate
      Lyricist I
      March 27, 2016
      so this would be a limitation for live analogue, but most dj apps are entirely digital. why would a processing delay be involved if there was a native sonos version of a software DJ application? or why couldn't there be a digital line-in from the 3rd party app?
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