So if you want to use the basic AirPlay feature to share music between AirPlay compatible devices, all you need to do is to download iTunes of Windows version on your computer, then connect your computer and other audio device which you want to stream music to the same WiFi. As for the Mirroring feature, it enables you to share your iPhone screen or computer screen to another device (TV for example) connected to the same WiFi. The streaming feature allows you to send music wirelessly from your computer or iOS device to any other devices connected to the same WiFi. Streaming and Mirroring are the two main features of AirPlay.
Well, take it easy, now we can use AirPlay on Windows as well. However, this great technology is only restricted to Apple users, which is very unfriendly to Windows users.
Since you generally want your speaker to be near your video display, and you aren't going to send video from the PC to your display wirelessly, I'm not seeing why this is a big concern for the vast majority of customers.As we all know, AirPlay is so amazing technology that enables Apple users to mirror music, photos, podcasts and videos from iOS devices or Mac to any other AirPlay compatible devices like Apple TV throughout your house or office, as long as they are using the same WiFi. You just have to have your media player wired to a Sonos home theatre product directly, or indirectly through the TV. As far as working with home cinemas, you absolutely can use your windows media player. I feel pretty comfortable in saying that the volume of customers who are interested in Google integration is significantly higher that those who are looking for integration with windows. as windows already supports wireless audio it shouldn't be a headache for sonos to connect via that api ( if they let it via a software/firmware update) they are working of adding google assistant, why not work on windows, as im pretty sure a few of us are using windows as a media player in our home cinemas Its a shame sonos dont add the api, for the built in feature in windows 10, where you can connect to wireless audio devices and wireless displays. Moreover, it automatically syncs VLC with the audio from Sonos for both YouTube and movies I have on PC. It simply runs the YouTube content through VLC with no delay. What I love the most is its integration with VLC for YouTube videos.
It still doesn't sync the audio, however it makes possible to watch some video content in my case. It doesn't completely cancel the delay, but reduce it to under half of second (or even less). It solves all the problems I had with SWYH, but it didn't convenience me to go for the premium version as it still has the 2seconds delay I had had with SWYH.ģ)Tuneblade - I've tried it a few days ago and immediately bought the premium version.
But I was pretty happy with it when watching a movie through VLC.Ģ) Airfoil - I've tried the free version a few months ago. It has some imperfections and in my case required permanent restart.
Here is an update about the solutions I've been looking for.ġ) SWYH was the open source little software running in the background of my PC for a while. Forgive me if I thought you were talking about Airplay via a Windows PC. Sonos is a billion dollar company that would get sued faster than you can say "Steve Jobs".Īs to the rest, the title of this thread is "Airplay and windows PC". If the prospect of getting sound from a PC to play through a sonos wireless speaker is too difficult then im a little upset I just dropped all that money on them.Įvery one of those is an unauthorized hack written by a guy in his basement, which is why Apple "tolerates" them (actually, Apple rearranges their protocol every once in a while to foil these hacks). the point is that when you spend over a £1000 on a wireless speaker set, it would be nice if I then didn't have to have to keep your previous speaker hooked up to the PC in order to play sound from it. Reflector, airparrot, airfoil or (and ive not used it but the guys earlier in the thread were talking about it) tuneblade.īut if you notice I never actually mentioned they do it via airplay. It's not very difficult to do, I airplay stuff all the time to my apple tv via my pc and from my phone to my PC.