If I use my laptop to control the Sonos play 5 and Bridge, does it use my Windows "Sound Playback" to get the music out of laptop, into speakers?
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Nope. It uses only it's own proprietary player application. It can play music files on your computer (except certain copy-protected files, like half my iTunes library), but it cannot be the speaker from other audio, for example a youtube video or DVD.
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Yes you can. The sounds will come out of whatever monitors are hooked up to your computer.
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Yes and No.Material originating from the Sonos players will be in sync with the receiver's speakers (no delay)material originating from the Receiver source will have some delay between the receiver's speakers and the Sonos players. Its a direct connection receiver to speaker. Its a slower/longer signal path WiFi transmission and synch processing required between the Sonos players.
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This is on thing I've been having trouble with myself. I have the receiver connected to my home theater system and wanted to play audio from my laptop. I can connect to the receiver with my laptop's Bluetooth, but I haven't been able to get Windows to play sound through It as it doesn't show in audio devices. . I'm using Windows 7 and haven't been able to find any software in the hour I spent searching about it.
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The Sonos Bridge is not needed. The Connect works with your home WiFi network with any 802.11b/g, 2.4GHz broadcast capable router. It also works on SonosNet, a secure AES encrypted, peer-to-peer wireless mesh network dedicated exclusively for your Sonos system to reduce WiFi interference. Additionally, the Connect has a built in Network bridge. It is a 2-port switch (10/100Mbps, auto MDI/MDIX) that allows Ethernet devices to connect through SonosNet. This allows up to 2 wired connections to the back of your Sonos Connect for a TV, Xbox, etc., giving them wired network access from your WiFi connected Connect. The Sonos Bridge is not needed. The Connect works with your home WiFi network with any 802.11b/g, 2.4GHz broadcast capable router. It also works on SonosNet, a secure AES encrypted, peer-to-peer wireless mesh network dedicated exclusively for your Sonos system to reduce WiFi interference. Additionally, the Connect has a built in Network bridge. It is a 2-port switch (10/100Mbps, auto MDI/MDIX) that allows Ethernet devices to connect through SonosNet. This allows up to 2 wired connections to the back of your Sonos Connect for a TV, Xbox, etc., giving them wired network access... » Read More The Sonos Bridge is not needed. The Connect works with your home WiFi network with any 802.11b/g, 2.4GHz broadcast capable router. It also works on SonosNet, a secure AES encrypted, peer-to-peer wireless mesh network dedicated exclusively for your Sonos system to reduce WiFi interference. Additionally, the Connect has a built in Network bridge. It is a 2-port switch (10/100Mbps, auto MDI/MDIX) that allows Ethernet devices to connect through SonosNet. This allows up to 2 wired connections to the back of your Sonos Connect for a TV, Xbox, etc., giving them wired network access from your WiFi connected Connect. « Show Less
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No. The speaker gets its power from the USB port on your computer or player. (It also gets the sound from that port.)
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You'd need the cheaper Sonos Connect, which has "RCA out" plugs. Those plugs can be connected to your powered PC speakers with a cheap RCA male to 3.5mm female adapter cable.
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No. One bridge covers all Sonos speakers and all sonos apps in your home. We have tablets and smartphones from 3 different people controlling all Sonos speakers in our home. All through one bridge.
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I'm not an expert or anything like that, but on Windows 7 if you go to the Control Panel and click on Hardware and Sound (the green fonts), then under Sound (green fonts) there is an item called Manage audio devices (blue fonts). Click on that and it gives you a Sound form. Under the Playback tab select E322AR and click on Set Default. Click Apply or OK. Then you should get computer sound through the TV speakers. At least it works with my setup. Only problem is, when you want sound to come through the computer speakers and headphones, you have to go back to the Sound form and set Speakers and Headphones as default. I'm not an expert or anything like that, but on Windows 7 if you go to the Control Panel and click on Hardware and Sound (the green fonts), then under Sound (green fonts) there is an item called Manage audio devices (blue fonts). Click on that and it gives you a Sound form. Under the Playback tab select E322AR and click on Set Default. Click Apply or OK. Then you should get computer sound through the TV speakers. At least it works with my setup. Only problem is, when you want sound to come through the computer speakers and headphones, you have to go back to the Sound form and set Speakers... » Read More I'm not an expert or anything like that, but on Windows 7 if you go to the Control Panel and click on Hardware and Sound (the green fonts), then under Sound (green fonts) there is an item called Manage audio devices (blue fonts). Click on that and it gives you a Sound form. Under the Playback tab select E322AR and click on Set Default. Click Apply or OK. Then you should get computer sound through the TV speakers. At least it works with my setup. Only problem is, when you want sound to come through the computer speakers and headphones, you have to go back to the Sound form and set Speakers and Headphones as default. « Show Less
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I'm wondering the same. In your case though, since you've already got 6 Sonos devices, wouldn't it be best to get a playbar/woofer setup instead so that you can fwd it to all of your speakers?
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In Windows go to "Control Panel" then to "Sound" and you should see what devices are connected. Look for the the device you want then right click your mouse button on it and select "Set as Default Device" then click "OK" and sound should start coming from whatever device you choose. I tried just clicking the device many times and it changed nothing until I set it as default. Hope that helps someone.
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Yes.The purpose of this piece of hardware is to provide an output to a larger sound system.Depending on what software you use on your laptop, you can set this hardware as your main output to the sound system that everyone is dancing to, and then use the headphone jack on your laptop to cue up songs that you will be playing in the future. That is what I do on my laptop.
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Hi, sorry for my english, but i will try to explain you.You can buy only the Sonos PLAY 5, but you have to connect your SONOS to your router. Your Sonos needs to be connected to internet so you need to connect it with your router using a LAN CABLE. So your system is not going to be "wireless".When you buy a bridge you connect the bridge to your router with a LAN cable and your SONOS PLAY 5 could be in any part of your house because it connects wireless with your bridge ( your bridge shares the internet connection ).The sonos components shares a wireless connection between them, so only one of them should be connected wired to your internet connection. Hi, sorry for my english, but i will try to explain you.You can buy only the Sonos PLAY 5, but you have to connect your SONOS to your router. Your Sonos needs to be connected to internet so you need to connect it with your router using a LAN CABLE. So your system is not going to be "wireless".When you buy a bridge you connect the bridge to your router with a LAN cable and your SONOS PLAY 5 could be in any part of your house because it connects wireless with your bridge ( your bridge shares the internet connection ).The sonos components shares a... » Read More Hi, sorry for my english, but i will try to explain you.You can buy only the Sonos PLAY 5, but you have to connect your SONOS to your router. Your Sonos needs to be connected to internet so you need to connect it with your router using a LAN CABLE. So your system is not going to be "wireless".When you buy a bridge you connect the bridge to your router with a LAN cable and your SONOS PLAY 5 could be in any part of your house because it connects wireless with your bridge ( your bridge shares the internet connection ).The sonos components shares a wireless connection between them, so only one of them should be connected wired to your internet connection. « Show Less
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You play everything through the sonos app, but the app connects to the other services to play the music - it doesn't import anything. I play my Amazon stuff, Beats music, Deezer, etc. - the app connects to each one as it needs to. If the app doesn't know how to connect to a service, you can't play from it, but sonos connects to most that I've heard of (there's a list on the sonos web site), or it will play from a hard disk on your home network.
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From my experience, anything that plays through your PC's speakers will play through the amplification (or HiFi) system to which you're having the sound broadcast with this Creative Labs gadget. I basically love the freedom it's given me to listen to any music I can access online through my good old stereo system, which had nearly gone obsolete until I bought this little gadget.
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I have a sonos connect in the living room connected to my tv as input and stereo as output and have a play 5 in the kitchen. The kitchen has an opening so I can watch the tv from the kitchen. The sound is perfectly in sync because I hear both the tv over the stereo via the connect and the sound from the play 5.
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Will this work if my current laptop sound card no longer works? - Yes, but you have to plug in separate speakers. It won't be able to run your laptop speakers unless you hack the laptop I think.In other words, does it rely on the current audio card, or is it independent? - It's independent.