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dugmas
Contributor I
May 20, 2024
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groups no longer working when playing over AirPlay

  • May 20, 2024
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I own a number of Play One and Play Three devices, plus one Era 100 that I bought specifically to add Apple airplay functionality to the system. Until quite recently, whenever I had all my devices grouped together in the Sonos app, I would be able to go to Spotify, select the Era 100 device as a target for AirPlay, and music would play on all devices simultaneously. 
 

Now, however, whenever I do the same through Spotify, only the Era 100 device plays, it gets kicked off the group, and the other devices remain silent. if I go to group the devices together in the Sonos app, nothing happens.

this is a serious problem for me, especially considering that I bought the extra era 100 device specifically to be able to use airplay on the system. I’m not interested in using the Sonos app to control my music, and I am not interested in using the open play directly to Sonos’s group” functionality on Spotify due to reliability issues.

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    Best answer by Corry P

    Hi @dugmas et al

    Welcome to the Sonos Community!

    Thanks for flagging this - we were able to reproduce this behaviour in our own testing, and it is not intended behaviour.

    We are investigating, but have no estimate for when a resolution might be put in place.

    I hope this helps.

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    KenLS
    Lyricist I
    November 18, 2024

    I cannot get Airplay to work with a group if that group includes an older (Play1). I’ve followed the tips here and although both the newer speaker (Sonos One) and older speaker show that they are playing the airplay source (in this case the Podcast app on my iPhone), music only actually plays from the newer speaker.  The older speaker pair is silent despite the app showing it’s playing.  Same if I used the Mac desktop app. 

    However if I do the same thing but group my Playbar with the Sonos One  speaker, that group works for both.

     I’ve been a Sonos fan for years but seriously this whole app rework fiasco continues to be pretty infuriating, not to mention I much prefer the original UI over the “new and improved one”!

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