Okay I will give it another try and thanks. Not sure what I was doing wrong but obviously I was. LOL! I do love the Sonos speakers. While on the subject, I hope it is okay to mention the fact that the MLB At bat app is not streaming on sonos this year and would anyone using this feature please complain to MLB. Marie
From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Sonos and airplay? Hi Marie, I believe you must be mistaken, here are the specs of the Play 5 from the Sonos website: • Fills a large room with pure, brilliant sound. • Bold. Pure. Dynamic. Intense. With deep bass that packs a punch. • Uncompromised sound whether vertical or horizontal. • Convenient, ultra-responsive top panel touch controls. • Line-in. Plug in any device you desire. • Streams over wi-fi, not Bluetooth, so the music never stops – even if you get a phone call. • Connect Sonos to an Amazon Echo or Dot, then simply request the music you love. Note item 5 in this list: Line-in. Plug in any device you desire. The player should have come with a 3.5mm male-to-male cable, but they are also easily available at any electronics store. You can of course also use a 3.5mm male to RCA male cable (that is the one with the two plugs at one end, red and white) and connect a stereo component such as a CD/DVD player, tuner etc. OK, now once you have connected a device, let’s say it’s your iPod Touch, you should hear Voiceover coming out of your Sonos. If not make sure you go to your Sonos app, select Your Play 5 on the Room tab, then go to the Browse tab, select Line In and make sure you tap “Play”. You can also set the Line In connection on the Play 5 to auto play on the Play 5 or, if you have other Sonos speakers, on any of them and you can set it so if the player selected for auto play is already part of a group it plays on all speakers in the group and lastly you can set it to start at a certain volume level. This is useful because if it happens to be loud music and the volume on the player where it starts playing is high it doesn’t start blasting giving everybody a heart attack. To do all this, go here in your Sonos app: 1. Tap the “More” tab at the bottom right of the screen 2. Tap Settings 3. Tap Room Settings 4. Tap your Play 5 or, if you have more than one, tap the one where you have the 3.5mm cable plugged in 5. Just under where you can change the name of the speaker, tap on the “Line In” button 6. Explore the options available such as auto play, volume etc. Note that if you don’t have a cable plugged in the “Line In” button under the room settings for your Play 5 won’t show up, it’s only there if a cable is plugged in. You don’t have to have anything connected on the other end, but the player senses if something is plugged into the 3.5mm port and only shows this button if there is. I have several Connect and Connect Amp players as well as my first generation Play 5 which when it first came out in 2011 or 2012 was called the S5 and I have my Airport Express plugged in to my Connect Amp in the Kitchen which is connected to in-wall speakers which are installed between my counter top and the upper cabinets, I also have a cable connected to my Connect in the office which I can use to quickly plug in my laptop. This way I can just take my wireless keyboard to the living, room, kitchen or wherever I have a Sonos player and hear Jaws in that room. Lastly I have a cable connected to the Connect Amp in my bedroom. That player has in-ceiling speakers above the bed and I use the Line In cable if, for some reason I want to connect my iPhone or Echo Dot. All of these Line In ports on all 3 players are set to auto play in the bedroom and then from there I can either group another room or rooms to it or change it if I want to play only in the kitchen, bathroom, office, living room or downstairs in my woodworking shop or the Connect I have connected to my big high-end stereo in my music room. Note, my old S5/Play 5 has two 3.5mm ports, in addition to the Line In port it does have a 3.5mm headphone jack. This is awesome for private listening which at this point is not something Sonos is focused on. I mostly have the Play 5 sitting under my bed with a set of good headphones connected, in the summer when it’s nice outside I have a second power cable on our deck so I can just unplug it under the bed and bring it outside. I really hope in the next year or two that Sonos will finally get around to private listening and come up with a good Sonos headset which acts as its own player. I’m sure they would sell a load of those. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marie N. Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sonos and airplay? I have noticed that you have mentioned the play 5 having an input jack. I have a play 5 but the 3.5mm jack seems to be an output rather than an input jack. I have tried connecting other devices such as my iPod but can’t get it to work even when choosing the Input service on the sonos app. so what am I doing wrong? Marie From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Sonos and airplay? That is at this point up to Apple. It is Airplay 2 which Sonos will support and while it was briefly available in one of the earlier iOS 11.3 betas I think in February it was pulled when the following beta came out and it was not put back by the time iOS 11.3 was released. Airplay 2 is also what will enable multiple homePods to be used together so until Apple gets it right Sonos can’t enable it, either. Having said this you could always add Airplay to Sonos by spending $50 or so on an Airport Express and provided you have something like a Connect or Play 5 which has a Line In port. You would simply connect the Airport Express to the Line in port of the sonos and Airplay to the Airport Express. I set this up years ago and it works perfectly well. Of course I am not saying it is what I recommend at this point since I am pretty sure Airplay 2 will come soon. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sonos and airplay? Hello Marie I heard that rumour a while ago and I would also love that. Regards Fanus From: Marie N. Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 5:34 PM To: VIPhone Subject: Sonos and airplay? 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