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Setting SONOS speakers as audio devices from a PC

  • November 23, 2023
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I recognise I may not even be asking the right question …

 

I have SONOS Play 1 speakers wired in to my home network. Due to the track limit on the SONOS Player app I want to use JRiver on a Windows PC as my media centre (data is on a NAS).

For JRiver to play to the SONOS speakers apparently the PC needs to recognise them (or one of them) as audio devices. It can see them as devices on the home network ok, but not as audio devices.

 

Can this be done with just the hardware i already have? To be clear, I don’t need them as the computer speakers - but do want JRiver on the PC to be able to play to them.

Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

JRiver is not a general audio source for Sonos, as far as I can discover and there’s no way to connect your Play:1 to a PC. You probably need add a different Sonos device to your PC such as a Move2/Era-100/300/Roam, which all have Bluetooth and can be grouped with your Play:1 over WiFi. That’s if your PC has a Bluetooth Tx.

An alternative, particularly if looking to play video on screen in lip-sync, is to attach/cable a Sonos Home Theatre product to the PC over a wired HDM-ARC/eARC, or Optical connection, but it depends what audio ports you have available on your PC - if you go this route, I would suggest getting a second Play:1 speaker aswell, as two speakers are required to attach them to a Sonos HT product.

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JRiver is not a general audio source for Sonos, as far as I can discover and there’s no way to connect your Play:1 to a PC. You probably need add a different Sonos device to your PC such as a Move2/Era-100/300/Roam, which all have Bluetooth and can be grouped with your Play:1 over WiFi. That’s if your PC has a Bluetooth Tx.

An alternative, particularly if looking to play video on screen in lip-sync, is to attach/cable a Sonos Home Theatre product to the PC over a wired HDM-ARC/eARC, or Optical connection, but it depends what audio ports you have available on your PC - if you go this route, I would suggest getting a second Play:1 speaker aswell, as two speakers are required to attach them to a Sonos HT product.

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