Post by JonWillI'd be interested i understanding how this works - do you point the
Sonos system to LMS for its music library? And how does syncing work,
other than by trying to rpess play at the same time :) If I could move
slowly over to a mixed economy that would be ideal ...
It is at the same time more simple and less elegant :-)
Sonos cannot point to LMS, they ignore each other. What Sonos does well
is distributing analog source connected to the line-in of any capable
device (a play:5 or a connect) to any other device in the Sonos system
and keeping them fully in sync. So it is as simple as connecting the
line-out of a SB3 or a Touch or a Receiver to any Sonos device with
Line-In. Then _that_ Squeezebox device becomes your bridge. In other
words, you have to always play on that SB device to be able to listen to
your music on the Sonos system. The Sonos is, to some extend, just used
as wireless speakers with enhanced synchronization capabilities. What is
amazing is that when I tried that, I was expecting the Sonos system to
delay the analog input to a few 100ms and have to delay all my
Squeezebox devices to take that into account, I was expecting awfull
jitter at all - well, not at all (and I've been using that for almost 2
years). There is no audible delay between an analog input of a Sonos
system and that same music forwarded to any other sonos devices - this
is just instant "forward"
So, what is played on my Sonos "extensions" is fully controlled by my
Squeezebox system (I use iPeng a lot, it is really a great piece of
software). The only time when I use the Sonos controller is to mute /
unmute / group Sonos speakers as, again, all the Sonos speakers appears
as "one single entity" to the SB system. But that's all. Of course, at
any time, you can ask the Sonos system to play something else than the
line-in of (eg) a Play:5. The Sonos system is pointing to the same
folder containing my music, so everything is as well available
"natively"
Say you have
Kitchen : Boombox
Dinner room : SB3 on amplifier speakers
Bedroom : Radio
you add Sonos devices
Dinner room : Play:5
Bedroom : 2xSonos:1
Connect line-out of SB3 to the Play:5 line-in using a Y connector
To play on the Sonos(Dinner) or Sonos(Bedroom), the caveat is that you
have to play on SB(Kitchen). On Sonos, configure it to re-play
Sonos(Dinner:LineIn) to Sonos(Bedroom) and/or Sonos(Dinner). Using your
prefered SB controller, then do what you used to do, and all speakers in
Bedroom will play in perfect sync, although they are a combo of Sonos
and Squeezebox. If you want to switch off Sonos(Dinner) or
Sonos(Bedroom), use the Sonos application on your preferred smartphone.
You can also dedicated an "old" Squeezebox receiver to be the bridge
between the system, not connected to any speaker - in that case, no
annoyance of having mandatory sound to be heard in one room to bridge to
Sonos. I feel it is a very smooth transition or a very good combo
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