Restrict access to certain zones

Okay, so, as a teen who enjoys using Sonos at house parties, I think there is one feature that is sorely lacking from the Sonos system. I would imagine most people who have used Sonos at such a party will have also encountered this small, yet very annoying issue also.

PEOPLE CHANGE THE NOW PLAYING SONG - and it is so annoying. Being able to distribute controllers at a party is great, as people can then add music of their choice to the playlist, however, it is extremely annoying when the 'Now Playing' song changes repeatedly. Wouldn't it be great if some form of administrative rights could be put in place to only allow certain controllers (the party host) change the now playing song, and the rest just be contributors to the playlist. Or perhaps even just the option to set a password to change the now playing song? I think this would greatly increase the attractiveness of using Sonos during house parties. 🙂 This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled How to improve a Sonos house party....

Ryan, thanks for the idea. I've merged it with this existing topic.

I've done this to myself often enough. Perhaps play now should not be the top choice in the list.

Agreed on it improving the attractiveness for usage at house parties. I'd also love to see this feature to allow childrens controllers to be only allowed to use certain zones whilst the parents can still see and control the whole house. Even better would be if the parents could add restrictions on the children's controllers like hours they can use a particular zone during, or a maximum volume limit...

You can actually also merge it with this one: https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/hide_zones_on_any_type_of_controllers_and_unhide_using_a_password It's intended to achieve the same result.

You can actually also merge it with this one: https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/hide_zones_on_any_type_of_controllers_and_unhide_using_a_password It's intended to achieve the same result.
Or, you could merge your idea with this one, since it has more people liking this one and has been in place for longer... but you know, whichever.... Also, whilst the 'hiding' a zone sort of works, this means you can only have two states of a zone, hidden or not. So not so good if you want to give two children access to a SONOS in their own room and not to each others. Why would I want to do this? Prevents, them from 'fighting' over control for the others speaker (e.g. brother stopping his sisters music or turning it down) by being able to assign their controller only rights to a specific zone or zones. You are right in that just having a basic hide function would be a good start though...

Have a pair of play 3's outside. Everyone in house uses it. Want to get a play 5 for my room. Yet don't want the roomates to have access to it so they can't blast "Who let the dogs out" at 5am while I'm sleeping.

Anything to be done? This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Password on different zones?.

I was about to start a "Party Mode" feature request when I saw this thread. This covers basically what I'm looking for and I'll include a few notes: When in "Party Mode" lock down various settings, which you as the owner can control ahead of time. (List of options on a screen and you set checkboxes on or off) So you can determine how "locked" you actually want the system to be. Examples: 1. Exclude Play Now, Play Next, or Replace Queue from the options when selecting a song. 2. Exclude the ability to add a whole artist or album to the queue 3. Lock editing of the queue (deleting & moving) 4. Lock saving of playlists 5. Lock the whole Settings screen 6. Lock Sleep & Alarm options 7. Lock the Sonos from accepting new controllers. To come out of party mode an owner-determine code should be entered, such as a 4 digit number, doesn't have to be anything complicated. That prompt to disable party mode could appear when you click the icon to enter the settings screen.

I have a user that doesn't want others to be able to group with her zone. I there some way to do that? This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled can a zone prevent other zones from joining it in a group.

This would be a great feature for work environments as well where music tastes vary via "zones."