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mcauleymail
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November 14, 2017

Streaming from Sonos app on PC to your PC's soundcard

  • November 14, 2017
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Has anyone found a way to stream Sonos sound via Sonos' PC software through your PC's soundcard? Basically use your PC as a player?
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    jgatie
    jgatie
    November 14, 2017
    Not possible, the PC software is just a controller. No music passes through the controller, it is fetched directly from the source by the Sonos devices themselves. Even if it were possible, effectively allowing a cheap Raspberry Pi to replace a Sonos device would be suicide for Sonos.
    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    November 14, 2017
    I don't think that's actually feasible, by design. In order to make money, Sonos has to sell speakers, you don't actually pay for the software used to control them. By allowing the Sonos app to control your PC's soundcard, you wouldn't need their speakers, and they wouldn't make any money, so it's not something they would have made easy.

    And I'm not even going to mention (OK, I will) that the Sonos app doesn't play any music anyway. It's all handled at the speaker level. The app just tells the mini-computer on the speaker where to go and get the music, and nothing actually goes through the app at all.

    Edit: jgatie types more quickly than I do 🙂
    Bruce
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