AirPlay 2 when?

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melvimbe
No, it surely doesn't already work with Sonos. Sonos would have announced it, at least on these forums at a minimum. As far as Sonos being listed as compatible before it actually is, I look at that as a sign that the legal/contract part of the integration has been worked out. I doubt Apple is just letting any company into the Airplay program, as they surely want to make sure the experience is good and perhaps some money is exchanging hands. Afterall, the Airplay badge is likely going to help sell some Sonos units. So in short, it's not surprising that Apple and Sonos announce that there will be airplay integration before it actually happens.
Danny
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The way Apple presents the iOS 11.4 update, they are already listing the supported Sonos devices as compatible, as if they already work with Airplay 2. So this isn't true? I'm not home so I haven't been able to test it myself.
Ken_Griffiths
...And here's me thinking that Sonos was working on improving voice services with better 'ducking' and 'grouping' of speakers with Alexa and then I thought they might move onto Google Home and then along would come AirPlay-2 later.

I guess we will have to wait and see.

There seems to also be a big announcement coming on June 6th too, but that looks like it's possibly a new PlayBar according to some recent news stories online.
Stuart_W
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Don't forget the whole "testing", as well as "beta" process once they've written the code. It would be bad for them to release a half baked implementation, just to satisfy the "we need it right now" crowd.
I'm having a hard time accepting that Sonos and Apple haven't already got this working and just needs tweaking for release.

Why?

What makes you think if it was all ready to go and all tests completed that Sonos/Apple would just sit on it?
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Don't forget the whole "testing", as well as "beta" process once they've written the code. It would be bad for them to release a half baked implementation, just to satisfy the "we need it right now" crowd.
I'm having a hard time accepting that Sonos and Apple haven't already got this working and just needs tweaking for release.
Airgetlam
Don't forget the whole "testing", as well as "beta" process once they've written the code. It would be bad for them to release a half baked implementation, just to satisfy the "we need it right now" crowd.
Bruce
Ken_Griffiths
Really? October? Sonos better address this now since 11.4 released
No, it’s talking about last October 2017. It gives no date for this year, but lots still to be gleaned from those 'official' posts.

I think we have to remember that Sonos have perhaps had to wait for Apple to finalise things too before they can commit resources to complete their own development. Apple had already previously pulled Airplay-2 from iOS 11.3

I guess now that Airplay-2 is officially released, Sonos can get to work on it. I wonder just how long it will take them? It’s really anyone’s guess!
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Really? October? Sonos better address this now since 11.4 released
Ken_Griffiths
This is what the official message is from Sonos... I think quite a lot can be gleaned from these two links:

https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/airplay

https://blog.sonos.com/en-gb/airplay2-coming
T
Would like to know too. Seeing as we have waited best part of a year for Airplay 2, I hope it is soon
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craftytony
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Yes, SONOS please tell us when we can upgrade to take advantage of airplay 2!!!!!
Smilja
Same Time, Next Year. 🙂
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Good question! I want to know too.
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