Sonos Airplay2

[Klaas Berger]

Hi,

just a friendly reminder that there are still people out there curious what TuneBlade can do for Sonos speakers latency-wise.

As of 1.7.8.0 Tuneblade can get a connection to my Sonos Play:5 and send/receive control information (like volume), but the speaker stays quiet (or rather has a hint of white noise). Seems to be the same as an old iPad 2 can do (I don't have any other apple hardware to compare).

I still hope for an update to get it going.:)

Best regards,

Klaas

[TuneBlade Support]

Hi Klaas,

Thank you for writing to us. 

Apologies for the delay in adding support for Sonos. 

Please check the latest version as we've added support recently. 

Thanks,

The TuneBlade Team

[Klaas Berger]

Hi,

thanks for making the effort, runs smooth and reliable on my Sonos Play:5 and One! :) Bought a copy.

If you have some further time, two questions:

I noticed the minimum buffer is set to 192ms when playing to a Sonos speaker. Even in custom mode, which I thought is to play around freely. Is that a hard requirement by the speaker?

Why is an Apple device capable of playing roughly lipsync via AirPlay? What is at the heart of the issue that cannot be a achieved on a windows device?

Thanks, Klaas

[roger.sie...@gmail.com]

@TuneBlade Support

Also interested in finding out what the minimal latency would be for a sonos speaker (the beam in this case)

[John Mannor]

just fyi, with windows Tuneblade to Airport express (airplay 2), my minimum latency is about 500ms - the delay I need to set when watching movies. I'm satisfied with this.