It gets even more interesting when you dig in and note that AirPlay 2 adds enhanced buffering, allowing compatible speakers to store “minutes, not seconds” worth of audio in them, reducing (and even eliminating) those AirPlay jitters that could happen as you walked around the house or had any other Wi-Fi hiccups. HomeKit integration means AirPlay 2 is aware of all compatible speakers in your home, so you could say, “Hey Siri, play Maze by Phish in the Office” and that will take your Apple Music track and play it on your Sonos device named “Office”. It’s an intelligent platform, integrated with both Siri and HomeKit. Announced by Apple at WWDC in June, AirPlay 2 offers more than just a way to play sound on a networked speaker.
That’s a pretty deep integration, but it goes even deeper.ĪirPlay 2 is relatively new.
Had he brought up the Sonos app, I think we would have seen that we could’ve used the app to jump to the next track, as well. Mask swiped the PLAY:5 to trigger it to skip to the next track and the iPad dutifully jumped to the next YouTube video in the playlist. Things got interesting, however, when Mr. To demo this, Allen Mask, Sonos VP of Partnerships, played a YouTube track on an iPad and used AirPlay 2 to send the sound to a Sonos PLAY:5 speaker. Included in Wednesday’s announcements was that support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 comes to Sonos sometime in 2018. AirPlay 2 – The back door through which Siri enters This means you could use the Sonos app to start playing something from Apple Music and still control playback with your voice using Alexa.įor today, this is as good as it gets for Apple Music users wanting voice control of your music with Sonos (unless you’re willing to do the aforementioned geeky dancing, of course). Once a song, album, or playlist is playing on your Sonos units, any control option – Alexa included – can be used to pause, change the volume, skip tracks, and even identify which song is playing. “Continuity of control” is a phrase that they have thrown around a lot lately, and they don’t mean it lightly. The good news is that Sonos puts a high value – and dedicates a lot of engineering time and resources – to ensuring a consistent playback experience. Sonos’s Continuity of Control to the Rescue Despite the fact that the setup and maintenance of this is non-optimal and unsupported, it’s the solution that my family and I still prefer to use. As an Apple Music subscriber I’m not necessarily sure I agree this was the right choice, especially having experienced the latter via a very geeky solution I wrote up last year. Had Sonos instead built a typical Alexa remote control skill, you could then control any service you added to Sonos, but you’d have to say, “Alexa, tell Sonos to play Stevie Wonder.” Sonos execs all emphasized their desire to avoid the “tell Sonos” scenario.
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