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Out of the box, a Sonos system is not able to play (the audio of) YouTube videos. How to achieve this? If you have a server (or a VM running Linux) that is always turned on in your house, here is a rough tutorial on how to set this up using only free software. Press the Send to TV button on your phone's YouTube app, and your Sonos system will play the audio track of the video!

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How to control your music library using the Sonos Controller app for Mac. During the setup process, you can choose to add your music library to the Sonos Controller app. Launch the Sonos Controller app from your dock or from the Finder. Click Music Library in the menu on the righthand side.
Step2) Go to your Mac, or iOS device and then open the audio files that you want to play or your iTunes account. Step 3) Click on the Airplay icon and then select the Airport Express as the source of the audio. That is all you need to get music from iTunes or your computer, to play on your Sonos system.
I would like to play audio files on my Ubuntu PC to my Sonos system but haven't known how to do it. Have just come across the VLV Media Player (Ubuntu). I believe it could stream media to my Sonos but don't know how to do it.
I’m pretty impressed by the low latency of the sound when whatching a video on my iphone and streaming to sound to ny sonos speakers. I was wondering, is there any good working application or method to output the sound of VLC or Windows to Sonos airplay? I’ve alteady tried some apps but they can’t find the sonos speakers.

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I recommend an iphone / ipad app that can play YouTube via Sonos: SonosTube. It is the only app in Apple App Store to play YouTube via Sonos. SonosTube can play video on your iPhone / iPad, meanwhile, play audio on your Sonos speakers.

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The idea is to have the YouTube audio play on your very own internet radio station, and have the Sonos tune to it. Here is the sketch of the solution:

Cast receiver. The 'Send to TV' button of the phone's YouTube app uses the DIAL (or Cast Receiver) API to instruct your TV to play the selected YouTube content. The leapcast software (https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast) emulates a Chromecast device, which understands the DIAL API. Install it on your server, and you will be able to use the Send to TV button to play the video on your server.
Internet radio. Use IceCast2 and Darkice to convert the audio output of your server into an Internet radio station the Sonos system can tune to. Whenever you send a video to your server with the Send to TV button, the radio station will broadcast the audio track of the video.
Monitor. A simple python script (below) monitors the audio output of the server, and instructs the Sonos system to tune to your radio station whenever it detects audio activity (using the SoCo remote control software - https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo).

The full tutorial and monitor script are now hosted on Github: https://github.com/gpothier/sonoscast

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If you want to play YouTube on Sonos you can use the free software SonoAir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQiw_UTYr8

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You can play any sound (YouTube, Spotify...) from your Mac to your Sonos speakers by installing SonoAir (Mac OS El Capitan and Yosemite users) or AirSonos (for Mac OS Sierra users). Those 2 softwares are free and work really good.

For El Capitan and Yosemite users, here are the instructions: https://youtu.be/ThQiw_UTYr8

For Sierra users, here are the instructions: https://youtu.be/mi5u5Sa3UCk

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SonosTube Android version has been released.

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I recommend an iphone / ipad app that can play YouTube via Sonos: SonosTube.

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It is the only app in Apple App Store to play YouTube via Sonos.SonosTube can play video on your iPhone / iPad, meanwhile, play audio on your Sonos speakers.

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