Controllers & Music Services

I think I have seen some other posts about grouping individual speakers into multiple groups. Oddly enough, I bought into the Sonos Koolaid, happily, and now I have a Sonos:5 and a few Sonos:1's, and want to group some of them into "front of house" and all of them into "the whole house" and target each group with music/radio/etc. Sadly, I think this is impossible? Or is it not? Google Audio Cast seems brand-new in comparison, but seems to support this out of the box. I'm now wondering if I should be selling my Sonos speakers to switch, which is inconvenient 😕 I do hope I am missing something obvious here 😕

I'm curious to hear about other's experience in using the Harmony hub + remote with Sonos. I'm considering a purchase, but just not seeing a lot of advantage. I understand that it really has more to do with everything else you've got, not just your Sonos system. In terms of just Sonos, the harmony app and remote can't do anything more than the Sonos app can do...less actually. It does allow a limited integration with Amazon's Echo (which I have), but Sonos has promised to integrate directly. That means it comes down to 'everything else'. In terms of getting the HT audio and tv turned on at the right inputs, that isn't a big deal for me. I do have a playbar, so TV audio is automatically on when the tv is sending it signals. Nothing for Harmony to do there. If I didn't have a playbar, I think Harmony would get my purchase on this feature alone. On the TV, I have 3 inputs. Blu-ray is used rarely, maybe every other month, so Harmony can't help out much there. The other 2 inp

I'm wondering how to use a Spotify Station as a source for an alarm. When I create a station in Spotify, e.g. an Artist Radio station, I can see it in my Sonos favourites, but I can't see my Sonos favourites as a source for the alarm. I'm sure this has been possible to do as I currently have an alarm set up in another room that's playing an artist radio station - but now I can't work out how to do it again.

I have 2 Play1 and a Playbar which are great and I control them from my iPad. I can play anything from my music library and podcasts but I have apps on the iPad like BBC iPlayer which I can't stream onto my Sonos speakers. Any ideas

Hey Guy's, I'm experiencing the following issues. I had a setup with approximately 9 devices, I want to give some device to my son. But the first problem occurred when a factory reset the boost. I'm trying to connect it in his house, but it won't connect. When I logging in my account I see the boost in my list, Is that the problem from not connecting? How to fix this, Thanks in advance Martin

Good afternoon! He became a happy owner of the SONOS system, but then there were various questions, he was insanely stunned and remained at a loss, as it was possible not to think about the possibility of playing video files directly from the computer (mine TV), if you buy stereo pair PLAY 1, you can not connect them To the computer and not only listen to streaming music through Sonos play 1 - 2 Sonos playbar Sonos SUB Sonos boost And stumbled with such a seemingly very stupid problem at first glance, I understand that it is possible to get around this problem through SONOS connect, but in fact it costs not small money, and believe me, in Russia acoustics costs 2 times more expensively than in Europe or the USA! I had to express my displeasure, because We have this kit costs about $ 3000 and imagine, I can not bring sound to this cool and smart acoustics from the application on my phone, no words!:@:@:@ The question I have is the following, am I mistaken about what I wrot

Does anyone happen to know if there is a Sonos app for the Samsung Gear S2 watch? I was considering buying one if there is an app for my sonos

Can anyone please help - my SONOS system has been working fine for several years, but tonight I couldn't connect to my SONOS system from my PC. It just comes up "No existing SONOS system could be found" The boost is hard wired into my router, but it doesn't register as a device on my PC, however the PC can see all the wireless speakers. I've reloaded the software, re-powered everything etc etc... any sugestions as to what to do next? However I can connect to my SONOS system from the App on my android phone and can stream music from the net and play music files from my music library on my PC, but not from the SONOS desktop app on the PC

Hi, I want to delete On the iPhone Playlists that I have created and no longer want, and cannot find out how to do it. On the iPhone Sonos controller the top level menu lists; Sonos Favorites, Sonos Playlists, On this iPhone, Radio by Tunein, etc. Clicking the "On this iPhone" item gets you to a next level menu; "Playlists, Artists, Albums, etc. So there are two playlists; the Sonos Playlists and the On the iPhone Playlists. I can delete entries in the Sonos Playlists but not in the On the iPhone Playlists. Deleting Sonos Playlists entries involves clicking the ... item at the top right of the screen listing the playlists which gives you the option to Edit Playlist. You select this and can then select a playlist to delete. Trying to delete entries in the On the iPhone Playlists seems impossible to do. When you select the On the iPhone Playlists option you get a list of playlist entries under a Playlists heading but there is no ... selection item at the top right.

I'm trying to set an alarm that uses music from my Music Library. The shortest time I can set in the alarm setup is 15 minutes, but the music I have selected is less than 2 minutes. When the music ends, the Sonos Chime plays. How can I avoid having the Sonos Chime play?

Hi, All my Sonos nodes are physically networked using cat5e to the same internal network. How can I turn off sonos mesh wifi to reduce RF interference with my other wifi devices? Thanks

There are times that I want eliminate a speaker in my group. How is this done?

Anyone know if it's possible to stop people chasing the order of songs in the queue or to only allow them to add songs to the end of the queue and not use the play now option. At a recent party I gave a few people access to my music library sp they could browse through and pick some stuff to play but it just ended up being a war with people adding songs to play now instead of the end of the queue, then someone else would do a play now and so on and so on, hardly got to the end of any songs and it created a bit of tension. Some people might ask why I gave anyone access. They're my friends and I can't force them to listen to what I want all the time. It would be great if there was a party mode of sorts where people could access Sonos and add songs to the queue but only to the end of the queue. They then get to pick some music they like but don't cut off music that other people like.

Periodically, my Sonos systems gets into a state where the volume reverts to zero (mute) whenever I try to turn it up. I think this is mostly when I am using Spotify Direct, but I am not sure about that. It has happened multiple times and I have friends with the same periodic problem. I just caught one live and took a video screen capture of it happening on my Mac. See: https://screencast.com/t/ieqhj04Gl2 Sonos diagnostic 7395506 was taken when the system was in this state. Same problem on my iPhone interface. The problem was resolved by resetting the controller from my Mac.

Hello! Visiting this thread I was wondering if some information there is outdated: https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/improve-cover-art-support-resolution-speed-image-types-and-fault-tolerance-5057783 For example it seems to me the pixel limit is no longer 1024x1024. I have an album where the embedded cover art is 1500x1500 and it is shown. However I found it often loaded really slow and sometimes not at all. However I found that reducing the filesize rather than pixelsize was more effective in making Sonos Controller read it faster. So which are the size and pixel limits nowdays? Also, is there a recommended filesize and/or pixelsize where the compromise between resolution and loading times are optimal? Or some kind of table showing the relation between loading times and filesize/pixelsize? I'd like to keep resolution high but if there's a size threshold somewhere when loading times are significantly slower I'd like to go below that limit. Also,

Library indexing is MUCH faster when performed on a wired (as opposed to wireless) Sonos component. But how can I convince/force Sonos Controller for Windows to use the wired component as its "Associated ZP"?

I am trying to change the name of the room that is showing on my app. How do I do that?

For a long time now I've enjoyed a Sonos setup with a bridge, a play3 and a play5.  This has always worked fine, but suddenly my controllers can't find any components other than the bridge, and when trying to re-add any of them (pressing mute+vol up) the indicator light flashes orange.  When re-adding the controllers (I've tried a PC, iPad and iPhone) detect that I've pressed mute+vol up (they change to the 'connecting...' screen) but always fail to connect and show the 'Your Sonos component was not found' message. My wireless network is working ok, and I can see that the Sonos equipment is set to a relatively empty wireless channel (1), my own wifi network is set to a different channel (11). On occasion the Play5 has been able to connect, but drops off within 20 minutes or so.  Any help or advice you might have would be greatly appreciated! Tom

I have installed Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 on my PC and my Sonos Controller will not find my network any more :-)

How about showing the lyrics of a song while in the sonos app on your smart phone of tablet. My son likes a bunch of the music we have on our network and it would be great to use this awesome set up as a way to learn the song while listening to it... Matthew E

According to this here https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/257365) the iPhone 7 has four microphones but the iPads have only one. Will Trueplay tuning be better if you do it via an iPhone 7?

As a full time wheelchair user I like to have all my connected devices all connected in one place, will I be able to add my sonos music system to Apple Homekit? As more and more people are joining the home automation system I'm hoping sonos will add there support to Homekit.

Hi , I upgraded my Sonos to beta 7, when i look into my spotify app i can't find my 3 Sonos speakers. (I can see my other devices ) I have a Premium account with Spotify (directly bought) I have authorized Sonos and spotify.

Rumour? http://www.aftvnews.com/sonos-begins-beta-testing-amazon-alexa-control-integration/

SKINS I think it is necessary to introduce the possibility to change (or best: customize!) the SONOS controller for WINDOWS with coloured and clear SKINS. Actually it is very poor. AUDIO Depending when or "where" I play music, every time I have to do a new setting for volume, for every SONOS speaker (i have 4 Play:1, 1 Play:3, 1 Play:5, 1 Playbar + SUB). It is possible to create a "Volume settings saving"? Thank you for your attention! Mich