Will Sonos support Google Cast for Audio?

Sonos will not saying anything if they are planning to support . .. they will only say something when support has already been developed and being implemented.

Example: HEOS announced Google Cast support over a year ago .... to only a year later say they couldn't do it.

Sonos would never do that ... they always wait until its ready and happening.

I find it hard to understand why people will choose to sacrifice the features needed for stable wireless music play - that Sonos does better than the named competition even today - to obtain what seem largely to be eye candy. And some convenience. I see it as a nice to have, but I can't see any sense in jumping ship because it isn't there.

What's the use of a better/slicker UI if the stability of the music coming out of the speakers is to be compromised?

Some people, not me, are in love with the native app for their service.

I understand that bit; I just happen to think that no icing however good it may be, can make up for defective cake - defective here defined by lower music play up time. Cakes have first to be equally good for icing to decide the choice.

I am sure no one sits gazing at or playing with the native app when no music is coming out of the speakers, it can't be that good.

I agree

I don't think GoogleCast for Audio has to imply a bad playback experience, however, since it is also based on the audio playback device streaming the music itself, just like Sonos already does. Its more of a control mechanism for telling the device(s) what next to stream. Now, if we were talking about that garbage called AirPlay, then yes, I agree the experience would be bad since that's a really poorly designed protocol that depends on the sending device (mobile/etc) to push audio at the playback device.

I have a good friend and neighbor who wanted to add audio from his computer and phone to his crestron system. I told him to add a Sonos to it. His installer talked him in to AirPlay because he could use the Spotify app he had been using. He had it for a month and kept complaining about how audio drops out all the time.

One night I brought one of my connects down and swapped out the airport express.

Needless to say after using a week he went out and bought a connect. Not only has he not had any more dropouts but he said sound quality is amazingly better.

However. Native Google casting gives you both. Flexibility and pulling music direct from Internet vs via device.

Google casting from native apps means that sonos does not have to keep up with changes so much, as long as the native app keeps casting it will send music to sonos or a CCA. Instead of sonos trying to catch up/fix things like bbc iplayer or audible etc
Eutopia would be that you could group CCA and sonos together......

Instead of sonos trying to catch up/fix things like bbc iplayer or audible etc
This would still be an issue. The device has to support the underlying streaming technologies used by services, such as Sonos implementing HLS for the new BBC streams. But now that the work is done, in theory any HLS-based service should now be supportable on Sonos.

He had it for a month and kept complaining about how audio drops out all the time.

Native Google casting gives you both. Flexibility and pulling music direct from Internet vs via device.

I am sure that it isn't just Airplay - many other CC compatible makes have similar issues with up time. Once CC does the pointing trick, those devices have to then keep the music playing without drop outs and none does this better than Sonos and very few do it as well.

Sonos supporting CCA would certainly be a good thing to have, no doubt - I just think it doesn't make sense to switch because or till it doesn't.