Some clarification in Airplay 2 support please

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We have a new Playbase, several Gen 1 Sonos Play:1's, a couple of Play:3's and a couple of Play:5's (Not the newest ones, bought a few years ago).

Sonos have announced support for Airplay 2 on the Playbase and Sonos 1s and Play 5s. I'd like to know if we will be able to play music through ALL of our speakers using the Playbase as an entrypoint for Airplay 2, or if it is limited to just the Playbase itself. Also, I'm unclear on whether the Play 5's we have will natively support Airplay 2.

Thanks

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Billy1234

Lyricist II

Airplay 2 supports the direct acquisition of streams by the target speaker, so if Sonos does a full implementation while you completely control from your phone, the actual streaming would be done by the Sonos unit selected. Exciting to hear this. Do you have a source for this info?

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RamGuy

Lyricist III

I can't seem to find any official sources myself.

Chris

Lead Maestro

We don’t know exactly how the implementation will work. Will assume for now the Sonos One is only airplay capable speaker (we don’t know beyond that).

Then it will be two fold. Either the Sonos One will show as the only airplay speaker or Sonos One will act as airplay server and enable all other Sonos speakers to also show as airplay.

In case 1 you would have to play to the Sonos One (which in turn you could group with other speakers to play across house)

In case 2 (Similiar to an old Sonos air aetup) yoonwould be able to play direct from iOS device to any speaker.

We do not know which case it will be. If I were placing bets I would say probably case 1. But with Sonos One, play:5gen2 and playbar all being capable.

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Tiger519

Trending Lyricist II

Chris, do you mean Playbase? I have seen elsewhere that Playbase will likely be compatible, but I haven't seen anything about Playbar. I have a Playbar and am really hoping that it will get native Airplay support, either through firmware or adding a Sonos ONE to the system. Worst case of grouping might work as mentioned above, as my Playbar and paried speakers are my only Sonos products, but I'd rather not have a speaker grouped with that system while watching TV (or mess with muting/unmuting the speaker).

Airgetlam

All of us who are not Sonos employees are making complete guesses as to what functionality is being implemented. We don't have any knowledge specific to this implementation, and are basing our assumptions around what has occurred in the past. But there's no Sonos information that is being given to us, and not to you.

We're all waiting anxiously for the reveal when it's ready, and all of these questions will have answers, hopefully.

Bruce

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danson78

Lyricist I

Apologies if this has already been covered, and just wanted to understand if I wiuld be able to play audio for films etc via Apple TV either through the Apps like Netflix or iTunes films on a single or pair of Sonos One speakers only without the need of a Play Bar or speaker with an line in? Thanks

Airgetlam

It's unknown at this point in time. We will need to have a release from Sonos as to what their implementation is, and how it works. As far as I am aware, Apple hasn't even finished the complete feature set yet, so it's premature for Sonos to be releasing any data at this point.

Bruce

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