Sonos Player Not Showing Up | Music Assistant | Page 1

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 9:01 PM

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I'm not seeing an option to add my Sonos S2 devices in settings, what am I missing?

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 9:01 PM

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Did you add Sonos as a provider?

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 9:02 PM

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I knew it was something simple 🙂

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It's a confusing UI I suppose for a first time user

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Anyway thanks, once a provider was added it showed my devices automatically

If HA can detect media players can MA do the same and suggest the user to install the necessary providers? (or just auto install them)

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 9:08 PM

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Yes, the MA folks have talked about how it’s a bit confusing so you aren’t the only one haha. Not sure if a change will be made there

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Good question, might be a good feature request:

“MA has noticed x, y, and z speakers on your network. Would you like to add those providers?” Or something along those lines

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 9:17 PM

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I have an unrelated Q, how do I play to multi providers? like sonos and web?

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

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Are you on the main MA version? I think it’s 2.7

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

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Yes

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

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You’ll be able to do that next release

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Or on the current beta

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

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Got it cool

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I'm on 2.7.11

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

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But I think 2.8 will be out before long

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There’s something called a Sendspin bridge that lets you group Sonos/web/some other protocols

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 10:30 PM

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If the next release will do it that works for me 🙂

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 10:30 PM

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For example, I can play synced music to Sonos, HomePods, web browser, and some ESP32 devices running Sendspin firmware

fresh jewel Mar 18, 2026, 10:30 PM

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Cool

peak halo Mar 18, 2026, 10:31 PM

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Keep an eye out!

topaz siren Mar 18, 2026, 10:44 PM

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March 25th 😉

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 8:45 PM

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I'm trying to figure this out. In order to get multi room audio sync across platforms they need to be sendspin bridge compatible?

Is Sonos not supported yet?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:04 PM

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fresh jewel I'm trying to figure this out. In order to get multi room audio sync across plat...

Explain some more about what you are trying to do as Sonos is absolutely supported natively. Sendspin bridges are just alayer on top

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:05 PM

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trying to play on sonos and on native browser lets say at the same time

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:20 PM

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Am I missing something?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:27 PM

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fresh jewel Am I missing something?

So you should have the MA Sonos provider installed and when playing to that just go to the player list and sync to the phone.

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:28 PM

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what do you mean by "sync to the phone"?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:32 PM

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fresh jewel what do you mean by "sync to the phone"?

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:32 PM

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It's not showing together

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it's in a separate player

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:32 PM

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What is "it"

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:32 PM

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sonos and web

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:33 PM

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What version of MA are you running?

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:33 PM

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2.8

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balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:33 PM

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Show an image of your SETTINGS >> PLAYERS

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:34 PM

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balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:35 PM

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Do your Sonos speakers not support AirPlay?

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:36 PM

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It doesn't it's an older connect

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s2

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:38 PM

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Then you might be out of luck. Let me check about whether a Sonos - Sendspin bridge is possible

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 9:38 PM

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TY!

Isn't airplay an input, why is music assistant showing up in players?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 9:42 PM

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What do you mean by "why is music assistant showing up in players?"

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 10:06 PM

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fresh jewel

I was just looking at the pictures and wondering what the music assistant player is meant for

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 10:09 PM

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fresh jewel It doesn't it's an older connect

Ah. That is me testing our AirPlay receiver plugin

Also it is not possible to bridge to Sonos only devices as it is closed source.

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You have an option to buy a cheap Sonos anything that supports AirPlay and then that will bridge to the other Sonos players

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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What type of device would that be?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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fresh jewel What type of device would that be?

I'm not sure as I only has a Sonos device for testing. Check your local second hand sellers and see if you can pick somethign up cheap just make sure it supports AirPlay

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 10:15 PM

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I need one for each connect?

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And plug it in via analog

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 10:17 PM

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fresh jewel I need one for each connect?

No because all the Sonos can sync together. So they are synced and then MA is sync'ed to the one with AirPlay and now that can be synced to anything that is AirPlay (and as of 2.8 anything that is connected via Sendspin - because of the new bridge). https://www.music-assistant.io/player-support/sonos/#airplay-functionality

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 10:19 PM

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So something like apple airport express airplay 2?

balmy parrot Mar 25, 2026, 10:20 PM

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No it needs to be a Sonos device that supports AirPlay (assuming you are trying to sync your Sonos devices to the browser - your original question). But yes if you werent fussed about your old Sonos devices then any AirPlay device can be added to MA

fresh jewel Mar 25, 2026, 10:32 PM

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Got it
So essentially just one airplay supported device can make the whole system work with sendspin

balmy parrot Mar 26, 2026, 12:43 AM

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fresh jewel Got it So essentially just one airplay supported device can make the whole syste...

In terms of Sonos, yes. The concept is MA now has what are called bridges from Sendspin to AirPlay and Sendspin to Cast. So it can use those connections. Here is a diagram I am working on to show it

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