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suggestion: play on everything + lock volume ratio

  • January 14, 2025
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Hey,

 

I live in an apartment and have 2 different rooms that i usually pair anytime i want to listen to music.

PC Speaker: IKEA Symfonisk

Living room: beam + sub mini + 2x one sl

 

Whats tedious and unnecessary:

  1. I cant choose to play on everything directly from Spotify, i have to pair them first
  2. I want the IKEA Symfonisk speaker to play at roughly 75% of the volume of my living room. So i typically set it to 30, and the living room to 40. Whats wrong is the volume control, if i raise the volume of everything it doesnt take the volume ratio into consideration, eventually ill end up with living room at 60 and pc speaker at 50. Why???? How does this makes sense? I cant think of a single scenario where i would like it to function like this…

Hope you can bring an update to at least fix the volume control or add an option to lock the volume ratio between rooms.

 

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melvimbe
  • melvimbe
  • January 14, 2025

Hey,

 

I live in an apartment and have 2 different rooms that i usually pair anytime i want to listen to music.

PC Speaker: IKEA Symfonisk

Living room: beam + sub mini + 2x one sl

 

Whats tedious and unnecessary:

  1. I cant choose to play on everything directly from Spotify, i have to pair them first

 

 

I’m not that familiar with the Spotify Connect interface, but it likely that Spotify would need to update code on their side to enable this.  Sonos has open APIs that expose the grouping functionality.  The alternative would have to be some sort of virtual room that represents that stored group of your two speakers, and that would introduce other complications.  I bring this up as it’s something you might want to bring to the attention of Spotify.

 

 

  1. I want the IKEA Symfonisk speaker to play at roughly 75% of the volume of my living room. So i typically set it to 30, and the living room to 40. Whats wrong is the volume control, if i raise the volume of everything it doesnt take the volume ratio into consideration, eventually ill end up with living room at 60 and pc speaker at 50. Why???? How does this makes sense? I cant think of a single scenario where i would like it to function like this…

 

 

I actually like the group volume controls as they are.  I don’t think of speaker volume in terms of percentage of volume in a different room, but just the volume I want it in that room. I often want the volume raised everywhere equally, but when I don’t  it doesn’t fit into an established ratio.  So if Sonos were to do something like that, I would want it to be an option, leaving the existing functionality in tact.

 

 

Hope you can bring an update to at least fix the volume control or add an option to lock the volume ratio between rooms.

 

 

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  • halcyon626
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  • January 15, 2025

+1. I have a similar use case, pairing and controlling volume is unintuitive.

Airgetlam
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  • January 15, 2025

Not that Spotify maintains a presence in the Sonos forums, but how would you choose to make pairing and volume more intuitive? And have you communicated that to Spotify?

Bruce
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