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> If you’re an Android user, the limitations are even more frustrating. Playing music directly from YouTube isn’t possible without jumping through hoops Unfort
by sofixa 2y ago
> If you’re an Android user, the limitations are even more frustrating. Playing music directly from YouTube isn’t possible without jumping through hoops
Unfortunately that's due to Google's bullshit. There's a lack of appropri APIs, that's why you'll notice that any "smart" audio device (by smart I mean, integrates directly with music streaming services/locally stored music) doesn't support YouTube nor YouTube Music.
Music Assistant (sister project to Home Assistant) supports it via hacks such as pretending to be a TV or copy pasting auth cookies.
It's frankly an embarrassment from Google not to have APIs for this, they only lose potential users.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoGoogle Assistant also stopped working abruptly on many devices, Sonos included for months. This guy did exactly what some Google exec wanted, which was to exact revenge on Sonos over a patent loss.
- sagarm 2y agoThe patent on changing volume for more than one speaker at a time? That was such bullshit. The software changes forced by the ITC ruling forced Google to basically break speaker groups. Not a surprise that might have resulted in some frayed business relationships.
- Workaccount2 2y agoSoooo maybe Sonos could just put bluetooth on their speakers then? I get that google is shitty, but that doesn't make sonos a saint.
- sofixa 2y agoThey could, but syncing between speakers when one of them gets a Bluetooth input will probably be flakey. And like 2/3 of Sonos' value prop is sync.
- HelloMcFly 2y agoTheir newer speakers (Era 100, Era 300, Arc Ultra are the ones I know of) are Bluetooth enabled.