IT performance is severely lacking for such a premium brand.
Why is there no integration of computers through the desktop app? Surely it's connected through the WIFI mesh system exactly the same as the TV? This seems like a basic oversight for the gaming community. Why should I need workarounds?
Sonos was not designed to be a computer speaker system. The desktop app is for controlling your Sonos system it has nothing to do with the audio from a PC. The only reason I have found to use Sonos with a PC is if you want the audio from the PC to be shared on other Sonos devices. In those cases, a Sonos device with an optical input, PlayBar, PlayBase and Ray, work well. I have also used the HDMI input on the Amp with an optical to HDMI converter. This is the best way I have found to not have latency. Analog input will have a minimum of 75msec delay. Bluetooth and Airplay also have delay.
Because Sonos doesn’t make PC speakers? They’re specifically marketed as a whole home audio system, and not a PC speaker, since that market is fairly well saturated?
And that doesn’t even cover the need that Sonos has to comply with simple physics in maintaining room to room syncing.
If you want computer speakers, there are a lot of fine choices. If you want music throughout your home, Sonos is a good choice.
You might as well ask why your A/V receiver doesn’t connect to your computer, or your desktop radio, or your turntable. Sonos is audio equipment, not computer equipment. If you want computer speakers, buy computer speakers,
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+10I believe the desktop apps are reaching end of life and are no longer being actively developed.
Whilst the above is true there are some 3rd party app offerings (unendorsed), specifically for Windows but probably Mac too. They have varying reports from gamers but may be worth investigating?
Have a look on the reddit forum (r/sonos) where they are discussed...
Investigate all you want but in the end you are either reading misinformation, human or AI generated, or the truth.
Nothing will alter the basic facts of the way Sonos operates and nothing will change that.
- The controller, web, desktop or app, is a remote control, like your TV remote, and doesn't do anything more.
- The system has an unavoidable 75 ms delay on all audio inputs except the dedicated TV ones.
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