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October 14, 2023

Grouping two rooms to use from Spotify

  • October 14, 2023
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Hi,

I am new to the Sonos ecosystem and got my second speaker today. I have an era 300 in my living room and the move in my bedroom. I exclusively use the Spotify app to play music. 

 

What I would like to do:

When playing music, I would like to either play in one of the rooms or both at that same time. 

 

The issue I'm facing:

when I tried to group the speakers, the option was greyed out and says you need 3+ rooms to do so. I saw in some posts a reference to automatic "everywhere" group, but that is not visible in Spotify. 

There was a workaround posted on one thread where you can use the three dots option next to the speaker in Spotify and it redirects you to the Sonos app's grouping feature where you can create a group with two speaker. Unfortunately, when you do this, the original single speaker that was visible will be replaced in Spotify with the new group (this means I can no longer only select that speaker). 

Each time I need to play everywhere I can go through these steps, and undo it when I want to use the single speaker, but that feels tedious. 

 

Is there a way to group two rooms that I'm missing?

 

I'm also curious why there is a 3+ requirement, feels like grouping two is a legitimate need. 

 

Thanks

 

 

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    October 19, 2023

    Contact Spotify, who controls that software. They have access to the full Sonos API and their own codebase for their app. Sonos has no ability to access the Spotify app  codebase in any way. 
     

    Bruce
    106rallye
    106rallye
    October 19, 2023

    It looks like when you select two Sonos speakers in the Spotify app the app redirects you to the Sonos app. You then should be able to group speakers in the way described in the link I gave above.

      paularmwood
      Lyricist I
      December 13, 2023

      i have also facing the same kind of issue on my client’s site but i used this spotify++ ipa!!

      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      December 13, 2023

      You used a beer?

      Bruce
      dval29
      Trending Lyricist I
      March 23, 2024

      I just posted about the same issue the OP had. It really seems like Sonos should allow you to save or name a group of speakers in two rooms. 

      With one tap, I can select “Kitchen” 

      With one tap, I can select “TV room” 

      With one tap, I cannot select both.

      The functionality exists to play music in both rooms, but there is no possible way to group/name in a way that allows you to play in both rooms with one tap. I really don’t understand it. Shouldn’t I be able to create a “room” or a “group” and name it “Downstairs” and then when I select that group, it plays from both rooms? 

      I understand that I can go into the “group” square icon thingy and select the room when I want to play music, but it’s really strange you cannot save that as a grouping and must manually do it each time. Am I missing something? 

      106rallye
      106rallye
      March 23, 2024

      Maybe Sonos could change the “square icon thingy” to a “group all” in case you only have two speakers. Because “group all” is the only possibility then anyway.

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