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Contributor I
Dec 2, 2015 10:15 AM UTC
Question

When will Sonos support Airplay?

Hi Sonos,
Please somebody tell us, if and when airplay support will be added. It is definitely possible to do as some people have already written open source code to do it. But it is a hassle to use as I need to run a program on my mac to be able to stream music directly to my sonos speakers from my music app on my iPhone or iTunes. I can already now stream my AppleMusic from the cloud , I can stream DRM music. With airplay we just don't need to worry about your controller limitations.

Why can't you guys add official support,so I don't need to remember to start the service on my mac?
You are in the business of hardware, let Apple and others be in the business of music software.
I am now Apple Music subscriber and most of my music is in the cloud. and all the speakers I bought over $4000 USD would be worthless to me because none of my new music is accessible via official channels.
Thank god for the open source project that makes is available and simple. So it is doable even by people who do not privy to your internals. It should be very easy for official Sonos developers.

Also I don't like your player interface! It is NOT as good as Apple or Spotify. Please Please can you just add support for AirPlay?

And if NOT, please tell me WHY NOT?

Regards,

-D.
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Avid Contributor I
Sep 27, 2016 10:04 AM UTC
Now since Sonos speakers are sold directly in apple stores maybe there is a chance of getting airplay to work directly on the speakers.
They must have discussed this at least...

https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/26/apple-sonos/
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Lyricist I
Aug 12, 2017 8:53 AM UTC
They auto download to my phone/iPad, so I want to be able to play them direct from my phone. I'm not going to update my iTunes twice a day just to listen to a 30 minute podcast once. I'm also not going to buy an apple router just for that one function 192.168.1.1
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Prodigy II
Aug 12, 2017 12:01 PM UTC
They auto download to my phone/iPad, so I want to be able to play them direct from my phone. I'm not going to update my iTunes twice a day just to listen to a 30 minute podcast once. I'm also not going to buy an apple router just for that one function 192.168.1.1

Do you have a question?
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Stuart_W
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Aug 12, 2017 12:35 PM UTC
They auto download to my phone/iPad, so I want to be able to play them direct from my phone. I'm not going to update my iTunes twice a day just to listen to a 30 minute podcast once. I'm also not going to buy an apple router just for that one function 192.168.1.1

Do you have a question?


He's been posting virtually the same stuff. Looks to be a phishing site to spoof people into entering their router credentials.
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Lyricist III
Apr 27, 2018 2:53 AM UTC
Hey Fofer, are you still around on this forum?
Thanks for alerting me to SonoAir: No, I'm not the creator of SonoAir, either. Just a happy user, of a cool piece of software, that nicely fills an annoying gap. And I'm happy to share information about it with others who'd equally appreciate it. :)
Since I have recently bought two Play:1's and hearing that they can't be made to work with with Airplay, I'm looking for an alternative... SonoAir?
I currently use Audiobridge and find that it cuts out frequently on my setup.
I'd be interested in other's experiences with hacks to that Sonos-Airplay issue.
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Avid Contributor I
Apr 27, 2018 6:46 AM UTC
Try this https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
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Lyricist III
Apr 28, 2018 10:39 AM UTC
Cheers Philippe.
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