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

Ahh, inside information: you work for Sonos. Hence you know “SONOS could have made it work”. All is explained now. 

You’re welcome. 🙂

I can’t believe they removed this feature.  I store music on my phone, and use this feature for DJ’ing at parties where Sonos systems are already installed.  WTF?  I see I am not the only person mad about this. 

There are various ways to handle this. Do any of the SONOS players support Line-In? If so, there are Bluetooth to analog audio converters.

Deal with it..why even bother responding if it bothers you so much…yawn 

That’s the fun of these forums: someone posts, someone responds, and so on it goes. 

Does anyone know if I downloaded an old version of S2 I would regain functionality?  I presume it wouldn’t work as the hardware is updated to the later version.

The firmware on the devices is what has changed this - the app is just a remote to the devices.

And when Android updates their OS, even devices with older Sonos OS’s, this feature will stop working. It’s the Google/Android OS that is forcing this change. Just like when Apple changed iOS and broke ‘on this device’ playback from all iOS devices. 

You could, I suppose, never update either your old Sonos software and your Android software, and keep both of them unchanged in perpetuity.

I don’t work for Sonos but agree that it is Google who is forcing this change.  Now the only option to play music from your device is to upload it to a cloud storage service that supports Sonos, such as iBroadcast, Apple Music, Deezer, Plex, and YouTube Music. From these services you can import your music to Sonos.  YouTube Music and iBroadcast are free.  However, YouTube Music (Google) will only import 999 songs to the Sonos Queue, making it useless to those who have a larger music library.  I don’t know if iBroadcast limits imports to Sonos, but it imported my entire library (2730 songs) to Sonos and I am, once again, playing my music through Sonos. 

My hope is that Sonos works with Google to fix the issue with limited imports, and that it partners with these needed services to offer free subscriptions to its users.