Multiple users on a single account

Yes?

I'm not sure I really understand your question. Generally speaking, there's one Sonos system set up in a LAN (home). But each speaker can be controlled by all controllers connected to the LAN. If you have two or more speakers connected, any of the controllers can control any / all of those speakers (rooms).

Thanks for the reply. What I mean is, it looms.like Sonos is a system designes for multiple rooms for a sungle user. What I'd like is the ability for me to uae the app to control my music in one room and my wife use the app under the same login (account/subscription). Hope thats clearer. Is that possible? Thanks

Just to be clear, my wife shoukd be able to use the same account to pay her music in a different room but she had complete control via the app of her stuff and I have control of mine. Thanks

Perhaps the difficulty here is in knowing exactly what you mean by 'her music' and 'my music'. If you clarify that, we might be able to be more precise in our answers.

I'm guessing it's the same as my problem. I want our controllers to be independent so when I play music in the kitchen, I only see what I last played there, even though my wife has played music since.

It's annoying if I'm part-way through an album and come home to find she's played Gloria Estifan in the afternoon and I have to load my album again and remember the place I was at.

I understand each controller would need to be aware of other controllers but surely it's not beyond the wit of the software engineers to notify a user that the speaker is in use by another controller if they try and play something.

Hi. It is not a question of whether the engineers could do it. It is a question of whether it would be a good idea. And in my opinion it would completely undermine a fundamental element of the Sonos design. It is multiroom, multisource and multi-controller. The app is just a controller. All the software is on the speakers, and controllers just give a 'view' of what is there and must be kept in line with each other.

I understand your particular frustration but your request will never happen, can never happen and must never happen!

I agree. If I want to play music in a room and can't because the last person using that room has it locked or is playing something and has one out it would ruin the whole Sonos ethos. The fact that all of my family can play anything they want in any room is brilliant.

The critical point here is that the app is not a music player. It is a means of viewing the system and issuing commands to it. The system has to remain agnostic about where a command has come from in a multi-controller environment like Sonos. Every controller must give the same picture of the system.

The suggestion from @cobraBLACK also sits uneasily with the notion of the queue. (Although I have to admit to hating the way the queue works now!)

Doesn't AirPlay 2 provide a way to solve this?

If all your Sonos are newer and support AirPlay/AirPlay 2, and you use native apps on your iPhone or other AirPlay 2 client, then your client device will be able to continue from where it left off.

Of course, you aren't using the Sonos app, that's a positive in many cases 🙂 and your client device will be actively streaming (can't be shut off as it it both a controller and a source), but would give you the experience you want otherwise?