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charger28
Contributor I
June 6, 2011

"Jukebox" Mode

  • June 6, 2011
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I have a number of clients that have installed Sonos in their bars/restaurants. A lot of them wanted us to recess an iPad into a wall (using Sonance mounts) and use the Rhapsody service exactly like a jukebox.

The only issue is that the customers would constantly override the existing song by selecting "Play Now". Would you consider adding a "jukebox" setting that would only allow the user to "Add to Queue"?

The "Play Now" feature is also an issue at my house when there is a party. Most people do not have the patience to listen to a song picked by another individual. I would love to be able to lock down this behaviour.
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      nz120
      Lyricist II
      April 2, 2012
      Until I installed SONOS, I used a PC program called Silverjuke running on a diskless PC with a USB drive with all my music.
      This had a very nice "Kiosk" mode for parties, that
      - only allowed "add to queue"
      - would not add the same track twice
      - could be configured to not play tracks form the same artist consecutively (stops someone loading up all of James Blunt :-))
      - dropped tracks off the queue once played.

      So it worked just like a barroom Jukebox. Everyone seems to intuitively understand how it works.

      So if you get a chance, I'd be very keen to see that mode, and even pay something for it.
      nz120
      Lyricist II
      April 2, 2012
      the other feature of Silverjuke is that it remembers what has been played, and if nothing is queue will pick a popular song and play it after a programmable quiet time. So if you're too busy as the host to buidl the queue (or you've hidden the controller), you still get music.
      Any queued track interrupts and plays immediately.
      I'm sure that commercial Jukeboxes in bars have a similar feature.
      TeeDoubleUDee
      Avid Contributor I
      April 3, 2012
      +1

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      hne
      Trending Lyricist I
      April 3, 2012
      I'm not too concerned about my friends enqueuing the complete works of Meshugga, but should someone do that it would have been in place to have an adjustable volume limit, especially if the song before that was composed by Éric Satie :D

      It could definitely be implemented as a third-party application, but that would then be a topic for the Unsupported section of the forum and it wouldn't be available on the CR200 either.
      Teel
      Contributor I
      December 19, 2013
      +1

      Access Control with Groups permissions and users is a VERY wanted feature as it would solve so much things if it is solved.

      Yes the party/jukebox mode is very wanted.

      Also for locking down functionality and playlists for Children. It would be great to just give my Children some playlists and only controling volume on some speakers/rooms etc.
      Chris
      Chris
      Lead Maestro
      December 24, 2013
      reminds me back when I had squeezebox I used iPeng as the interface and they had an Iphone app called iPeng Party which was the limited version.

      Another thing the iPeng Party limited version did was also not allow volume control by the person adding songs.
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      AndyWenzel
      Contributor I
      January 3, 2014
      +1
      Exactly what I'm looking for with a great cross sell to get more customers for Sonos. I would love to have the party manage the music. However they always do something stupid, exit out, play next, go on facebook, etc... I want to be able to display it just like a jukebox, mount a touch screen/ipad and go.

      Once others start using it the more they want Sonos...
      Chris
      Chris
      Lead Maestro
      January 3, 2014
      While you can't currently lock out options. You can lock iPad or iphone to the app. Use the guided access option and you can lock the unit to the sonos program when needed.
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      towndrunk
      Avid Contributor I
      May 18, 2014
      Has there been any more talk about adding a Jukebox option? I have used TouchTone Audio for the longest time for any party I had, and it worked great. The only limitation is that it has control from one interface, and only plays in one location. I could lock the interface down to "party mode" and set permissions as to what users could do and see too. Stopped users from jumping their song to first, controlling the volume, etc. I would LOVE to see something like that one Sonos, and I would even pay extra if it were some sort of add on.
      Chris
      Chris
      Lead Maestro
      May 28, 2014
      Haven't seen a thing - I was hoping for it with the new interface ... but no such luck!

      Especially as it seems it would be a pretty quick fix (a menu option for party mode that would lock out several options for playback).
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