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pippin wrote: 
> Umm, as a streaming service provider? I don't understand this?
> "Integrating" Sonos will be hard, it works completely differently, you
> can't remotely control it with the same App without creating a huge
> usability mess.

I was thinking about a very basic integration to start with. This is
from a discussion I'm having on another thread. I'm bridging my
Squeezebox system with my Sonos by a hardware bridge between an SB3 and
a Sonos Play:5. This is brute force but it works well. As far as SB is
concerned, all the Sonos speakers are seen as a single "player" so I
switch on/off sync/unsync individual Sonos speakers using the Sonos app,
but for all the rest, LMS is still my interface, as long as I play to
that SB3 "bridge". I've been using that for about 2 years. Not perfect
from a UI point of view, but what works 100% well is synchrnisation
(amazing). 

Then during that discussion, I was thinking that a software bridge could
be developped instead of my HW goofy bridge. At least, to do the very
same basic. No real "management" of the Sonos environment, but as least
piping the sound to it. I saw then that Sonos has an API to add
streaming server application, so I was wondering if a PC running
SqueezeLite could then be that bridge and create a stream that Sonos
would then understand and replay. I was even wondering if named pipes
could work for a test (not pretty, just a test) where Squeezelite would
output to a named pipe that would be played as a file by the Sonos
player. I guess there will be some issue with file format as the pipe
will probably not represent something meaninfull to Sonos, but I was
just wondering ... otherwise, implementing a proper Squeezelite to Sonos
stream would probably work

So, as you see this is far from a complete integration where iPeng, for
example, could control the Sonos devices, but at least that would be an
interesting building block.


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