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Airplay Problem Sonos Era 100

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Airplay wont work in era 100 from windows pc itunes, but airplay works from iphone and other airplay devices work from pc.

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Sonos Staff

Hi @Symphony et al

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

We are aware of an issue whereby some Sonos speakers will be unable to play AirPlay feeds from a Windows PC running iTunes software, and we are investigating. We have no estimate for when a fix might be put in place, but I will update this thread when I hear of it.

In the meantime, you should be able to play to affected speakers by AirPlay-ing to speakers not affected and grouping the intended speakers in with it, where this is an option. Era 100, Era 300 and Move 2 speakers are affected by this issue.

I hope this helps.

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

One year plus…no fix.

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Puerto

Lyricist I

Had to send mine back, the Era 100 sounds good, overall a nice speaker.

However airplay from win 11 iTunes didnt work and also I wanted to connect old mp3 player via Audio cable - so brought the official Sonos USB C-to audio cable and was very surprised when it had clickey sound issues (even after adjusting the audio out settings on the Sonos App)

So instead I brought the Denon 150 NV - similar specs -
and on this airplay from windows 11 works fine and obviously it has an actual audio in, none of this proprietary USB-C non-sense, so there we go

If you dont want to use Window or suffer from audio-in issues, then the speaker is good.

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

New Sonos firmware…but my eras 100 are in the closet.
I bet the AirPlay problem was not fixed….

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null_user

Lyricist I

Still an issue, commenting to keep open

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

I do not think is going to change….

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JeroenInhortum

Lyricist I

I just bought the Era 100 speakers last week, when they advertise Airplay compatibility. Now I realize it doesn't work with Music Assistant.

Should I return the speakers, they sound good seem to be easy in using, but 1 year to solve a firmware issue - what else are they slow with.

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

Finally Sonos has fixed the firmware. Airplay 1 is back in my Eras!!

Just 15 months to fix it.

I recommend to everyone disable the Rhea auto firmware update.

Airgetlam

That’s odd. While I’m happy your system is working properly again, to my knowledge, Sonos has never supported AirPlay 1, only AirPlay 2.

Bruce

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

Not true, Airplay is backward compatible, any device that’s support airplay 2 also works with airplay 1.
My eras work perfectly on airplay until November 2024, broken by a firmware update, which is now finally fixed.

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Cdsalgad

Enthusiast I

Maybe better than not true, is says is not correct….

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