airfoil/move 2

Hi all,

As we don’t have official support for Airfoil, we can’t troubleshoot or fix any issues they have. If the developers of Airfoil want official support, then they should reach out to us directly or use our developer portal which has documentation for creating apps that work with Sonos, as well as developer help. The current supported ways to play from another app are listed on this support article, or what’s listed on our Works with Sonos page.

If you’re having trouble using Airplay, which we do officially support, to connect directly with your speakers, then please contact our support team.

What ​@Airgetlam suggest can help too, where streaming Airplay audio to another Sonos speaker and grouping in the rest will let you play Airplay audio to the whole system. If just the Move 2 doesn’t work with Airfoil as people in this thread mention, this should get around that issue.

thanks for the info, much appreciated!  I’ll fwd this to the Airfoil developer

Some extracts from a couple of responses from Rogue Amoeba Support.  Sounds like a Sonos issue to me.  

Unfortunately, Sonos introduced a breaking change to the Sonos firmware, which we are unable to work around. We wrote about this situation in an article on our Knowledge Base:

https://rogueamoeba.com/support/knowledgebase/?showArticle=Airfoil-Sonos#sonos-firmware-bug

Though it impacts Airfoil, this bug is not just specific to Airfoil: the same exact behavior is reproducible with Apple’s own Music app when transmitting to a Sonos device mixed in an environment with other original AirPlay devices. That's without Airfoil running at all.

Our AirPlay implementation has been stable for many years and has not needed changes; sadly, Sonos has shown a pattern of repeatedly introducing software and firmware updates that break compatibility across their apps and devices over the past year and beyond. 

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To clarify, we don’t have a public-facing bug ID from Sonos to point you to. We initially reached out to them with our findings back in October 2024, and while they’ve received our reports, they haven’t offered a tracking reference or acknowledged the issue formally in a way we can share.

From a technical standpoint, what we’ve seen is that recent firmware updates on certain Sonos models introduced a regression in how they handle multi-device AirPlay streams. The affected speakers will appear to accept a connection and even show as playing, but they output no audio. This happens when they are part of a group that includes other AirPlay devices — particularly those using the original AirPlay protocol. Airfoil is more likely to expose this issue because it builds its own AirPlay groups, mixing together different devices regardless of what protocol version they use. That combination seems to trigger a failure in Sonos’s firmware, even though the stream format is perfectly valid and plays correctly on other AirPlay devices.

We did explore potential workarounds on our side — including changes to how Airfoil handles stream timing and device sync — but weren’t able to get consistent playback results without breaking compatibility elsewhere. We’ve also confirmed the same silence issue can occur using Apple Music on MacOS when a Sonos device is grouped with older AirPlay 1 hardware, so it’s not unique to Airfoil. That said, not all device combinations will trigger the issue, so what you described — Apple Music working fine with your current setup — is totally possible. It’s a frustratingly inconsistent bug, and one we believe Sonos needs to address in their firmware to restore full compatibility.

Thanks again for sticking with us — we’ll keep your case linked on our end and follow up if anything changes. Let us know if you do hear anything definitive from Sonos, and we’ll be happy to follow up with them again.

I have the exact same problem with my Sonos Move 2 no longer working with Airfoil. It worked great for the first few months I had it, and like several others here, the late 2024 Sonos firmware update broke compatibility. The Move 2 appears in the Airfoil menu as a viable Airplay speaker, and even allows me to successfully connect with it, but audio does not play.

When I first started having this problem, I contacted Rogue Amoeba’s customer support (the makers of Airfoil) and they told me that this is a known issue introduced by the newer Sonos firmware, and that they had informed Sonos of the incompatibility. Here’s their support page explaining the problem.

Currently connected to my WiFi network are an 8-year old Sonos One (gen 1), a 2023 Marantz AV receiver, a JBL portable speaker, a Wiim Airplay receiver, two very, very old Apple Airport Expresses, and a 2024 Apple TV. All of these devices work flawlessly with the Airfoil app — the only device that does not work properly is my Move 2.

This has been a very irritating experience that has done a lot of damage to how I perceive Sonos and the quality of their products. I suppose in the grand scheme of things there aren’t a lot of incentives for Sonos spending engineering resources towards fixing compatibility with a 3rd party Mac utility, but that’s exactly the kind of quality and attention to detail and the customer experience that I have long expected from Sonos. And it would go a long way towards rebuilding my trust and goodwill if they would look into this issue and fix it.

Did you report the issue to them by calling in, or are you assuming your post to this community acts as such? 

Im not sure what or who has done it, but today I updated my Move2 and Airfoil to 5.12.6 and its now working again from MacOS 15.6.1

Suggest you all try updating and see if it works for you too.  If so, we owe a developer at Sonos or Airfoil (or perhaps both places) a beer.  

thanks to the development team that has resolved this.

Airfoil
App Version: 5.12.6
Build ID: 1f5d03c73481f58
Build Date: 2025-09-02 20:48:17

OS Version: MacOS 15.6.1
Audio Engine: ARK

​@eppiblue 

I am also on 5.12.6 of Airfoil and 15.6.1 of OSX but still doesn’t work.  Reset Move 2 and updated but still no sound.  

I have found a work around but not ideal.  I connect the Move 2 using Bluetooth.  I had to fiddle with timing to get it in-sync with the wifi connected speakers.  Works for me but the drawback is you need to keep it close to the server.

I tried it again yesterday and it wasnt working.  Im sure I had it working the other day so Im not sure what Im doing differently.  Will test it some more this weekend and see what happens.

​@eppiblue 

no problem.  Months ago I had mine working  for a day but next time I tried to use it, broken.   
 

last update from RA was: 

Airfoil's implementation of the AirPlay protocol is primarily based on the original spec - not AirPlay 2. Many AirPlay 2–compatible devices offer a way to fall back to the original protocol, and in cases where they don't we try to hide some devices because they won't work properly: