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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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    olibara
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 8, 2018
    Thank you jgatie
    This is what I've understood unfortunately
    So the only alternative to get it easy is as Chris suggestoted to be able to have al Shortcut list of "Favourite" and be able to easily attach a station to an item of the list
    Unfortunately "easy" is not the mood for SONOS
    olibara
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 8, 2018
    To define this UI situation, I would say that when defining an UI there is two common approach
    The good one : User Oriented approach which is :
    What can be the user user needs ?
    Then try to answer giving easy acces to feature that can fit these needs
    Unfortunately we mostly have the developper approach
    Wiich is : I have a new feature in mind where can I park it ....
    jgatie
    jgatie
    January 8, 2018
    Olibara,

    In the almost 10 years I've been posting here, yours is the first I recall of a request to swap the music in two rooms for one another. If users aren't requesting the feature, you can hardly fault a UI desiger for not including it as a user need.
    olibara
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 8, 2018
    Thank you jgatie
    But this is not right
    In fact the first post of the current thread was exactly what I'm looking for
    jgatie
    jgatie
    January 8, 2018
    Thank you jgatie
    But this is not right
    In fact the first post of the current thread was exactly what I'm looking for

    No, I'm afraid it is not. Read the thread again. The OP was requesting to easily move music from one room to another, without grouping the rooms, hitting Done, then hitting Group again, then separating the group and hitting Done again. They misunderstood the process, because what they requested is very easily done by unselecting the first room and selecting the second, then tapping Done. This was was subsequently explained in the thread. But moving a single stream from one room to another is different from swapping two rooms with different sources, something I have never heard requested before.
      olibara
      Trending Lyricist I
      January 8, 2018
      Ok
      Lets say nobody asked ...
      So it is not a need : no need to do something
      But on the other hand I see many many complains about the UI
      There the answer is "Yes but some like it"
      So at the end whatever you ask or not there is no hope for something better !
      jgatie
      jgatie
      January 8, 2018
      Nobody is saying the UI is perfect, even those who claim to like it have explicitly stated that there are things that need to change. That is quite different from a single person asking for something that has never, ever been requested before.
      olibara
      Trending Lyricist I
      January 8, 2018
      Ok Ok jgatie,
      You are right
      But if you understand between the lines what I'm saying is that having a well designed UI with some natural features can help to exhause other need
      Having for example an easy access to a list of favourite adn being able to easily build it would certainly help thousand of user and will feed my need somehow
      jgatie
      jgatie
      January 8, 2018
      Sonos has promised easier navigation and better contrast will be addressed in the coming releases.
      olibara
      Trending Lyricist I
      January 9, 2018
      so there are some hope in the air !
      They sould also launch a survey to capture user needs and feedback
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