Android Functionality Needed

Hello many thanks for your quick reply and the information you have provided me with, I do feel that sonos are still very Apple centric and need to integrate full functionality as the have with apple products, as Android devices are a huge market that sonos needs to tap into as this would be a win win situation as sonos would sell more products and Android users would benefit from having sonos products fully compatible with android hope sonos will sort this situation out soon and make everyone happy not just apple users 

The reason why full Trueplay isn’t available on Android has nothing to do with Sonos being “Apple centric”.  After all, for years Android users could play local files from their devices and connect directly to Sonosnet, which iOS users could not. 

The real reason is the multitude of sources for microphones in Android devices, even within the same brand and model, means it is impossible to tune Trueplay to every microphone used in Android devices. 

iDevices, on the other hand, have a standardized microphone for each model, so it is relatively easy to tune to Trueplay.

You can use the the Amazon music app and ‘cast’ music to play on your Sonos speakers.  You may need to setup Amazon Alexa (whether you have any Alexa devices turned on or not) to do this, but it does work well.  It even works when you are not on your local WiFi network.  Was there some other functionality you were looking for?

An Arc 2 soundbar is likely years away.  I suspect the Trueplay quick tuning will be available then, and any other future Sonos products.  As far as adding an HDMI passthrough feature, I highly doubt that will happen.  Besides requiring a hardware change, which Sonos tends to avoid on gen 2 product, it means that the speaker has to be capable of handling whatever video standards exist now and in the future along with whatever license may be required (perhaps none). It means the Arc needs to process ‘normal’ audio signals as well as ARCeARC.  A lot of customers will be annoyed that it doesn’t have multiple HDMI inputs and switching capability.  Besides, there are a growing number of devices, like this one, that already handle the features you’d want without Sonos building it into the Arc or Beam.

HI many thanks for your quick reply, It's just I'm not too technology expert and I've been led to believe that sonos speakers won't allow you to the amazon music app directly to stream music, you can of-course stream music from amazon music but only via the sonos app and therefore not in amazon HD/ultra HD  - with regards to Arc 2 HDMI pass though what I mean is having 2 E-arc HDMI port's so you can input a 2.1 device and connect to your TV or a PS5 if this is correct then why can't sonos do this when lots of other manufacturers do it

Ah.  This is actually on Amazon as I understand it.  They need to enable casting (or voice command requests) for HD and atmos audio tracks.  You can only do this through the Sonos app or via a TV right now.

It absolutely can be done, Sonos is just very unlikely to do it as they never have before.  That’s been a request with the Playbar, long before the Arc ever existing.  Then again, Sonos also said they were not going to do bluetooth either.

Thanks Danny 👍 yep never say never I just think with a company like sonos they can do almost anything if they want to, I'm not knocking sonos but I just wish they would open up to Android users and  increase functionality of their products as I'm sure they would increase sales enough to make it financially viable and open up there products to a much wider customer market like just catering for apple users  there are 100 s of million Android users 😀 fingers crossed ehh 

Thanks for your reply even so I bet sonos could join up with a 3rd party software company and create an app that would work with the vast majority of android devices or come up with some type of true play that would be compatible with android devices, yes of-course android users can do this and apple users cannot and versa, that not the point I'm trying to make which is if sonos invested money into finding an solution for Android users they would open up a worldwide market of 100's of millions extra customers who would be more likely to invest large amounts of money in sonos eco system if??? They could easily integrate it with their life

Popmaster109,

Would you be willing to take your Android to a calibration facility? At the facility your microphones could be calibrated. Would you be willing to pay a fee for this service?

The problem with Androids is that the microphone calibration can vary from production batch to batch on the same model phone. Perhaps some models are consistent enough that one calibration will be valid for the entire model run, but this uniformity will not be known until the model production ends. Unfortunately, there will be legions of models that will not be uniform enough for developing a standard calibration. There would be a list of supported models. I expect that this list would be relatively short. Would you be OK with a short list of supported models? (that might not include your phone)

Note that in any of these cases, purchasing a new Android phone will invalidate any past calibration. This already happens when a new iPhone/iPad is introduced. There is a lag between product introduction and Trueplay availability. During the lag a large batch of iPhone/iPad’s is sampled in order to develop a calibration spread.

Would you be willing to purchase or rent an Android accessory that enables Android Trueplay?

OK so your an apple fan boy I take it no more to be said then that Ehh apple says what they think is best for you the customer who's just paid £1,200 for their phone and they don't allow you to set it up as you want yeah that's why apple phones device may have more stability with their microphones but I'd rather be able to have the choice about how I use my £1,200 pound S23 ultra than have safe but totally boring i-phone