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December 9, 2018
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Air play on Sonos play:1 using sonos:one

So, we have 2 sonos play:1 speakers. I would like to be able to stream from bbc player radio but understand I can do this with sonos: one using airplay. So, my question is: if I get a sonos:one to connect to the current network will I be able to stream the player to the current speakers I have. So we currently have a speaker on ground floor, and one on top floor (of a three storey house) I'd want to listen to the player though just one speaker that may or not be the sonos:one.
Hope this makes sense, ask me questions if you need further explanation.
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    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_GriffithsAnswer
    December 9, 2018
    The way it works is AirPlay is presently available to these Sonos devices listed below...

    Sonos One
    PlayBase
    Play:5 (gen2)
    Beam
    Sonos Amp

    So you can send an AirPlay stream to any of these products.

    To get the same stream to play on a non-AirPlay speaker, like a Play:1 or Play:3 etc; you will need to 'group' these speakers with an AirPlay-capable speaker... You can then choose to reduce the volume or mute the AirPlay speaker (if you want to) leaving the AirPlay stream just playing on the non-AirPlay (Play:1/3) device.

    So the main point here, is that you will need to 'group rooms together' in order to get your Play:1 speakers to work with AirPlay and the other room must be an AirPlay capable device that can receive and handle the AirPlay stream.

    Hope that helps you to understand how AirPlay works with Sonos. ?
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    John B
    December 19, 2018
    Airplay 1 was terrible. Sonos deliberately and correctly avoided it like the plague. Just because a technology is available, it doesn't necessarily follow that it is a good idea to implement it everywhere.
    jgatie
    jgatie
    December 19, 2018
    . . . and there it is, another "or the bunny gets it" post.
      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      December 19, 2018
      It shows that KP 1 never does any proper research and you would think being a staunch Apple user, he would understand how the evolvement of the AirPlay protocol took place, particularly after all the complaints about the delays in the run up to iOS 11.

      I have quite a few iterations of Apple products from iPhone to iPad, Apple TV etc. I too have an iPad v1 64gig, iPhone 3GS & 4 and Apple TV's 2 & 3 in my loft .. the life expectancy might have been there on paper, but in the real world they are useless, as the installed Apps are so out of date, that they do not work and the later versions cannot be installed from the App Store.

      Apple have certainly taken my money and left me stranded. Sonos on the other hand like to take their customers with them and recently announced that 97% of the products they have ever made are still in use today... and that’s a fact and target that Apple will never be able to achieve.
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