Roon and Sonos Connect

[RBM (René)]

There’s always this update by @danny, I guess:

Sonos support via Airsonos [Roon support added in 1.3]

I sent this as a PM to another member, but I figured I’d say it publicly too: We noticed airsonos popping up a few months ago, and did an analysis to see if was a viable technique for Roon to use. It works like this: Roon sends lossless audio via Airplay to airsonos (unfortunately, if playing high-res or DSD content, this gets downsampled into CD quality because Airplay can’t support anything better). (See Signal Path in Roon) airsonos encodes that lossless audio to mp3 using lame using …