Sonos Ray Soundbar connection to Personal Computer

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January 31, 2025
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I am trying to use a Sonos Ray soundbar as the sound device on my personal computer. I have used both an internet cable to the computer as well as an optical cable. The Ray is shown as the main sound device & I can see the sound is playing but I cannot hear it. They are all on the same router.

Whilst the Sonos Ray is recognised by my computer, my Sonos App on my mobile phone cannot find it.

Can anyone give advice/help please?

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Best answer by Schlumpf

@LindyLou

Regardless the network issue Ray should play audio from your pc, if both are connected via optical cable.
Make sure that…

in Rays audio settings „autoplay“ is activated
your pcs audio output is set to spdif (optical) in audio settings
the optical cable works properly
pcs audio output format is compatible with Sonos system (try Dolby Digital 5.1 or pcm 16bit/ 44,1 kHz)

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Slax

Lyricist II

I currently have it set to 16 bit 48 kHz. I’ve tried some different settings but thought I might have luck with a lower bit rate.

I’m just using the onboard audio from my Asrock x570 taichi motherboard running Windows 10

Airgetlam

Seems like that should work. Have you called Sonos Support directly to discuss it?

Bruce

Schlumpf

Virtuoso

@Slax

Sometimes, depending on the sound driver software you will have to activate digital output separately. Is there an option for that? Also checking windows audio mixer settings will be worth a try.
Also tried another cable? Is there a red light visible at the end that has to be put into Sonos Ray?

And at least is „Autoplay“ activated in Rays room settings?

Ralf