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Easily switch the music from one room to another

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October 24, 2012
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I have different rooms equiped with wall-mounted Play 3 devices. I would appreciate for an easy way to switch the music from one room to another. This is particularly useful if I spent some time building a playlist or selecting a radio station and that I don't want to have to go through search to find that station again. At the moment, my two options seems to be: 1- Stop the music in Room 1, then start music in Room 2 (need to rebuilt my playlist or search the radio station) 2- Group Room 2 to Room 1, and then ungroup Room 1 from Room 2. Both of those options are inelegant. If I could have some kind of "Sent to" function (or drag and drop a room on another one) that would be great.

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BarryM

The controllers allow you group and ungroup within the one action. This is effectively a "send".

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fdsljfsaAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Can you explain a little more? The way I see it, I need to: - Click Group - Click the new room to ADD - Click done - Click Group - Uncheck the old room - Click done That's 6 clicks to accomplish somethinh that could take just 2 clicks (you put a "send to" next to the group button of each room, and when clicked, you offer the other rooms). 2 clicks, much better than 6.... (and I can't imagine that it is a hard feature to implement on the developper's side).

jgatie

You do not need to click 'Group' and 'Done' twice, it can all be done on one screen. To move from Room A to Room B, do the following: - Click Group - Uncheck Room A - Check Room B - Click Done

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fdsljfsaAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Haaa.. Thanks, you saved me 2 clicks 🙂. But my idea would save two more clicks.

BarryM

Yes but it is limited, and is another thing cluttering up the UI. Currently they have a single action which will: * silence one room from a group * add another room onto a room or group * throw the music, from a single room or group, to a different room or group

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fdsljfsaAuthor

Avid Contributor I

Single action.. but 4 clicks. 2 clicks is better for someone who uses it often. Granted we don't want to clutter the UI.. but I think there is a way to make this clean.

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User128457

Contributor I

I'd love this and also thought of it the other day. I'm often moving from one room to another and I want to take the music with me. Currently I have to group and then ungroup which is fiddly. I should be able to 'throw' what's playing on one Sonos to another. e.g. I wake up to music in my bedroom I then want to transfer what's playing to the ktichen where I'm having breakfast. I'm sure this is a common action for many that deserves its own interaction.

Swipe somewhere on the now-playing screen or long press on the room name -> produces pop-up window with list of other zones, pick one and it transfers what's playing to that new zone.

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Paul_29

Lyricist I

I'd really like this as well. It strikes me as cumbersome to need to group to add an extra room, then ungroup to remove the room I started in.

A common use case for me is to start playing something in the kitchen while I'm cooking, then want to transfer it to the dining room to eat. I'd like it if there was a "Send To" button, that would bring up all of your available zones and you click on one, and that's it, it stops playing where you are and starts playing where you're going to.

It would be nice as an extension to that to have a config value that would allow you to set a time for the music to "fade out" of the room you're leaving, so it doesn't abruptly stop as you leave.

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User832917

Contributor I

A “SEND TO” button would be also a nice feature for me. And it would be nice, if you can implement this.

And the idea from Paul, whit a fade out and fade in feature would make it perfect!

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Tobias Henz

Lyricist I

This is for me a must have! A Move to, Send to whatever button.

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