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I bought a Sonos One for my partner and regret it. One of our use cases is playing audio from videos of dance classes. But it can't do this, because the WiFi s
by stevesimmons 8y ago
I bought a Sonos One for my partner and regret it.
One of our use cases is playing audio from videos of dance classes. But it can't do this, because the WiFi streaming protocols are set up for linear streaming, using long buffers. That kills the ability to do frequent seeking and looping of sections of a video. Yet the most basic of crappy Bluetooth speakers has no trouble with this.
It never occurred to me that a premium wireless speaker released in 2017 could not do this. My fault, of course, for not researching it thoroughly enough. But Sonos's also, for arbitrarily restricting a perfectly sensible use of generic hardware like a speaker.
- givinguflac 8y agoIf you still have the One it’s getting AirPlay 2 next week which solves your issue, assuming iOS user.
- admiralpumpkin 8y agoCan you reference that timeframe? I can’t find anything from Sonos announcing a specific date. Thanks!
- yeukhon 8y agoExactly. Changing songs manually is totally disaster. But in general its WiFi just sucks. Otherwise, like I said, totally rock.