Since we all like things to be simple, here’s the easy test to remember: if your Sonos has touch controls, it natively supports AirPlay 2. If you’ve got a Sonos One in the kitchen grouped with a pair of Play:1s in the dining room, you can AirPlay to that group, no problem. Sonos will allow AirPlay 2 to work on any speakers that are actively grouped with an AirPlay 2-compatible speaker. Sonos now knows which speakers will natively support AirPlay 2: the Playbase, the current-generation Play:5, and the Sonos One.īut this doesn’t mean households with older Sonos gear are totally left out in the cold. We made some guesses back then, and recently did some digging. Although you can send the soundtrack of a movie or TV show from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to the Sonos base station, the video and audio will play out of sync.Back in October Sonos announced that AirPlay 2 would be supported on some of their speakers this year, but didn’t detail which ones. Also, this is a solution for audio files. Although AirPlay is also available from your Mac via iTunes, there’s very little reason to use this setup with content from your computer-Sonos lets you stream your iTunes library directly so why go through this rigmarole? And that’s just as well because if you attempt to use AirPlay within iTunes to stream to the base station attached to your Sonos unit as well as other destinations (another AirPort Express or an Apple TV, for example) you’ll find that the music plays out of sync between the destinations. This solution is built with iOS devices in mind. Select it and whatever you’re playing over AirPlay will be channeled to the Sonos units of your choosing. Now when you choose an AirPlay-compatible app, you’ll find your just-added Sonos unit among the destinations. And you can adjust the autoplay volume-helpful when you don’t want AirPlay volume to be radically different than the volume from other sources. You can also select a particular device or group to play AirPlay content. Using any Sonos controller select the unit attached to the base station, choose its Line In setting, and select AirPlay Device for the source name (using the Sonos Desktop Controller software on your Mac you can choose AirPlay Device from a Source Type pop-up menu). Configuring AirPlay with the Sonos Desktop Controller software

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