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Rickey Rocket
Contributor II
May 10, 2024

For those of you who hate having to use the sonos app, here's a useful alternative

  • May 10, 2024
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Of you're like me and despise the Sonos app and the inability to use apps like you tube (well technically any app since the Sonos app only works 1 out 20 times). I've found this app called Air Music, that allows you to cast audio to your Sonos speakers using any music service or app/player/webpage that produces audio for Android, it's basically the closest thing to Apple Airplay that if found. I can just launch you tube or spotify or my local file player and cast the audio without having the headaches of being forced to you use Sonos beyond terrible interface, highly recommend it, it's been total ges changer for me and actually makes Sonos products useable. 

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.airmusic.trial

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    Mike the Moomin
    Lyricist II
    July 13, 2024

    That sounds very promising. My main Sonos app is on my iPhone 11 running IOS 17.5.1

    Do you know how / where I can install earlier versions of the IOS app from?

    Forrest
    Chromatic Producer I
    July 27, 2024

    This is the first I’ve heard of Air Music.  The page doesn’t have any contact information and I’m not even sure this is opensource, but it’s specifically for the Android platform.    Anyone have more information?  For example, porting this to Linux and/or MacOS would be great.

    DerkWehler
    Lyricist III
    August 14, 2024

    PS: When I enabled SMBv2, it was purely a windows challenge, not specific to drive hardware.

     

    Here is the link I used, for those who want to get their systems going with SMBv2

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3?tabs=server

     

    TnJed
    Lyricist I
    September 1, 2024

    I’m using a Play:5 Gen 1 with a esinkin BT adapter I bought off Amazon for like $20 (more like $24 now).  It’s a small box with power in and a line out.  Ran it into the line in on my old Play:5 and set the line-in as the source in the Sonos Connect app.  Works great and no Sonos software necessary after initial setup.  If I turn off the Play:5 it still defaults to the line in when turned back on.  I set the volume all the way up on the Play:5 and can then controll volume on my iPhone.  The volume control and pause have some lag but otherwise they work fine.The lag seems somewhere around 3 seconds which makes video sync pretty bad but that’s not a use case that concerns me.

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