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Tommy_4
Contributor I
December 12, 2012

Party mode

  • December 12, 2012
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It would be a really neat feature to have some sort of party mode i could enable before the party, that would put MY controller as the master and all other controllers where guests. This way my guests that have connected to my sonos with their smart phone, can search for songs on my system but their only possibility is to queue the song(s) and not clear/skip the queue. Furthermore the guests shouldn't be able to stop/start/forward a song to break the rhythm and probably annoy the person that chose the current song playing. After the party is over, the master controller can just disable party mode and all controllers work evenly again.
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    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 3, 2017
    Yea well needed.
    Respect the Queue (2)Move (3)Beam (1) Era100 (2)ARC (1)SonosOne (1)Playbar (4)Play5 (4)Play1 (3)Play3 (1)Port (2)Connect (1) Roam (2) Ace (1)Connect:Amp (4)Sonos Amp (1)Sub + (9) Echo + Smartthings; (2)Play)
    michielveenstra
    Contributor I
    November 26, 2017
    Bump
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    November 26, 2017
    No sign of
    Respect the Queue (2)Move (3)Beam (1) Era100 (2)ARC (1)SonosOne (1)Playbar (4)Play5 (4)Play1 (3)Play3 (1)Port (2)Connect (1) Roam (2) Ace (1)Connect:Amp (4)Sonos Amp (1)Sub + (9) Echo + Smartthings; (2)Play)
    NullReference
    Avid Contributor I
    December 10, 2017
    I'd like to add my name to the list of those asking for this.

    I'm new to Sonos and my wife and I treated ourselves to a Sonos Play 1 each. We were very happy with the ease of setup and the quality.

    However, we had a large party of over 20 people shortly and it was chaos.

    Queue crashed all over the place, dead air, volume up and down.

    Now, I appreciate that I should have done some more research, and that other systems suffer from the same problem, but TBH I did expect more from Sonos.

    Even if the initial solution just made it a bit harder to crash the queue by changing the default tap to add to queue and also made the queue more prominent (on a phone) by not hiding it behind a slightly obscure button.

    I understand that these issues have been raised by veteran users so I thought that I'd add my voice as a first time user to counteract any idea that this might be due to people just not liking change.
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    December 10, 2017
    Yes the current version has made it difficult. First always be sure to edit queue in beginning so at least it gives you the message that you are about to erase queue. Very short sighted with Sonos. I don’t let guests use the controller very much any more compared to I used to freely share it.

    I just hope some people delete the queue several times at Christmas parties this year of some Sonos execs to finally get some traction on this.
    Respect the Queue (2)Move (3)Beam (1) Era100 (2)ARC (1)SonosOne (1)Playbar (4)Play5 (4)Play1 (3)Play3 (1)Port (2)Connect (1) Roam (2) Ace (1)Connect:Amp (4)Sonos Amp (1)Sub + (9) Echo + Smartthings; (2)Play)
      NullReference
      Avid Contributor I
      December 10, 2017
      First always be sure to edit queue in beginning so at least it gives you the message that you are about to erase queue.

      Ah, thanks for the tip, wondered why I was seeing it some times and not others!
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