First of all; I really love my two favorite systems coming together!
System:
- 2x Sonos Play 5 Generation 1
- 1x Sonos Connect
- Various Plex clients, for this test a Sony Xperia X (F5121) on Android v6.0.1 running Plex v4.28.2.249
Installation went fine without any problems. I’m already set to use beta in Sonos & my Plex is set to remotely be controlled. Navigation in the Plex client is fairly smooth (the same as any other Plex client in the house when browsing though movies). I was really happy to see that the band/artist finally having a thumbnail, being unhealthy fixating on such bling, this made me very happy. The happiness resulting in me removing my Music library setup on Sonos since the Plex client is doing a better job. The only problem with this is that I have to set it up again if we would have an Internet outage. We rarely have those but I feel better having a fall-back plan.
Most of my library is 16 Bit FLAC ripped from my former CD collection & it seems to stream fine on all Sonos hosts. I will continue to test a bit more thorough in the coming weeks. I did not take the time to do a network analysis of the traffic or check the Plex logs; do anyone know if the Plex server do a direct stream not altering the FLAC stream? I will test using a 24 Bit FLAC & see if it trancode to 16 Bit, something I find limiting with my Sonos (a lot of indie produced music is in 24 Bit).