Why is it not possible to play directly from my Android phone anymore

This drives me nuts! Why would I ever again buy Sonos products when they remove essential features like this? I don’t subscribe to a music streaming service, and the Sonos devices I have (Arc and Sonos Ones) don’t have bluetooth. The only solutions offered are to subscribe to streaming or invest in NAS - so spend more money to replace the storage my phone does just fine. Effectively Sonos has just decided to deny me access to my music. Thanks!

Yawn. This again. It’s  been raised and answered in so many other threads. And now another…

yes. THIS again. Because people are PISSED.

I will never buy another sonos product. this makes ~$750.00 USD of equipment useless.

Completely agree with the above angry comments.  The Sonos app has always been known as one of the biggest bag of b******* ever programmed and now they have tampered with it even further to make it impossible to play the songs I own from the phone that I own to the speakers that I own.  I have spent literally thousands on this piece of * over fifteen years and they cannot resist every opportunity to ruin people’s experiences with they system.

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Agreed, you should definitely complain to Google, who is forcing this alteration with the changes they’re making to the Android OS. 

Completely agree. Its 90% of my use of SONOS and why we bought it in the first place. I feel robbed.

But why is everyone blaming Sonos when, by all accounts, it’s Google that has discontinued a feature that Sonos was making use of? Or are you agreeing you should/will/have complained to Google? 

Everyone is blaming SONOS because it is their fault.

SONOS could have made it work. But instead the company just puts a bot on here to automatically respond to every complaint about what SONOS has done by just blaming Google. I will happily accept that Google is much more evil than SONOS, but in this case  Google is just being used as a scapegoat. SONOS could and should make this work