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Le Loup
Contributor I
December 1, 2005

Scheduling music play

  • December 1, 2005
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I wonder how to schedule a specific composition or playlist, etc to play at a specified time. For example, I want my music to turn off in my bedroom at night automatically and turn on in the morning as an alarm-clock, but playing a speicific set of compositions. I did not find any scheduling functions in the software nor in the controller.

Another question is if it's possible (I believe it's not) to play 360 kbps mp3 files. I hope it will be taken care of in the next release.
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      ranaes
      Contributor III
      December 2, 2005
      Alas, this is not possible. Right now, the only way to go to sleep with Sonos and wake up to it is the third party software, Sonos scheduler (available in the digital expert forum.) Even with this software, I have the occasional period where my bedroom system does not want to respond, making me still reliable on a backup alarm clock.
      One thing you can do with the Sonos Scheduler: you can fall asleep to a low volume song, then wake up to the graduated loudness of the scheduler. It will still be the same music, but you can vary the volume.
      Le LoupAuthor
      Contributor I
      December 2, 2005
      Thank you. However, I could not find that software in the Digital Experts forum. Do you have an idea where it could be? 🙂
      Malcolm - Sonos
      Sonos Employee
      December 2, 2005
      Check out this thread: Sleep/Wake up app.
      Le LoupAuthor
      Contributor I
      December 2, 2005
      Thanks! I will try it out. I don't know why this function has not still been implemented by Sonos.
      ZaskarAZ
      Contributor III
      December 3, 2005
      So...I must become a digital expert to get access to this Schedular software?
      Malcolm - Sonos
      Sonos Employee
      December 3, 2005
      So...I must become a digital expert to get access to this Schedular software?

      Arnolds posted his software in the Digital Expert forum, which requires Digital Expert status for access.
      ZaskarAZ
      Contributor III
      December 3, 2005
      Thanks Malcolm. I wasn’t aware that this was third party software -- That's great. This must mean there is an API that one could use to access the internal Sonos DLL's. Question: How would one obtain information regarding this?

      One very interested software developer 😉 ,
      WMS
      Contributor I
      February 20, 2017
      Has this feature been added yet? I guess 11 years is enough!?
      jgatie
      jgatie
      February 21, 2017
      Yes. It's called an alarm.
      WMS
      Contributor I
      February 21, 2017
      The alarm is a workaround. Not the same as a proper schedule.
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