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October 24, 2012

Easily switch the music from one room to another

  • 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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    Stuart_W
    World-Class Superstar
    September 22, 2016
    Actually it isn't trivially easy. It's clunky and non intuitive. How many people figure this out on their own? I bet nearly 100% of people are stopping music in one room and then having to go through all the motions again to start it in another. I have 5 zones in my house and Sonos needs an easy-to-follow, intuitive feature to simply change rooms. Grouping and ungrouping is the wrong answer.

    Here's a video. It's so quick I did it twice in case you missed it:
    http://youtu.be/tEZxx_BfqAA?hd=1
    Arc + Sub (Gen 1) + 2 x Play 1/ Stereo Play 3s/ Era 100 Stereo in Kitchen, One Stereo in Bedroom, Play 1 stereo pair in Study, Play 1in Bathroom, Sonos Move 2
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 7, 2018
    I see this message today about 5 years after
    and it still seems very complicate or impossible to do for me
    SONOS User Interface is a mess totaly not user friendly
    I would love to be able to swap station from my Android app exactly as the need was clearly described by fdsljfsa
    I see the group feature but was totaly unable to hear on station 2 the The Radio set on Station 1
    For me the only thing a bit intuitive on the mobile app is On Off and volume control !
    A shame for SONOS Software designer
    For that I will never recommand SONOS to anybody !
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 7, 2018
    Also @mintchap.

    Why do you describe it as "grouping and ungrouping". It doesn't take two Grouping sessions to switch rooms. 1 Group button, un-X the room the music is in, X the room you want it in, Done. No need to group then ungroup".


    If you do that you loose the original source of the Target station
    It is not the SWAP I need and mentionned by fdsljfsa
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 7, 2018
    When listening to station there is room description at bottom. Younclick slext any rooms you want to be playing that.
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    Trending Lyricist I
    January 7, 2018
    Thank you Rock Star
    First : this is abolutely not Easy to Catch
    Two : If by chance I win to do it I'm loosing the original source : this is not a SWAP between two source
    Why do I want a SWAP between the source of Two Station ?
    Because everything is so tricky and complicate to find with SONOS that if I loose the source a a Station I've again to spend a few minutes to set it back as it was !
    So many people says that SONOS is Really not intuitive and every update they make it worse
    They never ear about ergonomic designer !
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 7, 2018
    When you find station you like hit the ... beside station and save the station to mrouter favorites. Then when you go to the my Sonos bottom right corner menu it will have all your favorite stations right there for selecting.
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    Trending Lyricist I
    January 7, 2018
    Thank You Chris
    I will explain my need and maybe it will become clearer
    Because I really thing that the simple things I want to do are too complicate to be practical with SONOS

    I usually have three source
    - One Radio Station : Source for Player 1
    - A set of folder on my WDMycloud let say My Favourite 1 and I set a shuffle all on it For Player 2
    - Another set of folder on my WDMycloud let Say My Favourite 2 and I set a shuffle all on it For Player 3

    Example of Use
    Player 1 is the Bedroom
    Player 2 is my office

    I hear the Radio in BedRoom
    And favourite 1 is Shuffling in my Office

    Now I go in the Office and want to switch the Radio there and let my Girlfriend listen to Favourite 1 in Bedroom

    I get headache to try to do that easily with SONOS
    Altough I'm a developper and I know a bit about computer logic, the UI logic of SONOS is deseperately BAD !
    Any change you want to made except On - Off and volume takes minutes to be find cost a lot of mistakes and disapointment to set things as you expect
    So hazardous that I now give-up before to try
    I want to work and have the pleasure to hear my music and not have to work to understand how to get my SONOS working simply.
    So I'm fed up to loose time on it
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 7, 2018
    Always use the room menu at bottom to chose room you want to control. Then browse to pick sources. You can also put frequent sources under my Sonos to easily get to.

    We should see update in ui coming where the. At is always at bottom and you don’t have to swipe down my playing to access
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    Trending Lyricist I
    January 7, 2018
    Thank you Chris
    When I'll get minimum 30 minutes to spend on it feeling calm I will review it again !
    jgatie
    January 7, 2018
    You cannot swap 2 different sources from one room to another. That is impossible. You can switch a source from one room to another, or from one room to multiple rooms. But you cannot take room 1 and send its source to room 2 while simultaneously sending the source from room 2 to room 1.