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Palm
Contributor I
Apr 4, 2013 5:30 PM UTC

Virtual zones

As per my 8 year old thread - http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=14604 I would like virtual zones - for example, an upstairs zone or downstairs, or outside so I can quickly get the music I want to the areas I want.
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    Chokan
    Lyricist III
    Dec 18, 2015 4:17 PM UTC
    Bump, looking for this as well.
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    Ryan S
    Ryan S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    Dec 18, 2015 11:48 PM UTC
    Hey guys,

    Thanks for the suggestions. We don't have any news right now on this, but we appreciate the feedback. There are some great ideas here.
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    sidle
    Contributor I
    Dec 19, 2015 2:59 PM UTC
    Hey guys,

    Thanks for the suggestions. We don't have any news right now on this, but we appreciate the feedback. There are some great ideas here.

    So you guys are finally going to pick this up? 😃
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    jgatie
    jgatie
    Dec 19, 2015 3:13 PM UTC
    Hey guys,

    Thanks for the suggestions. We don't have any news right now on this, but we appreciate the feedback. There are some great ideas here.

    So you guys are finally going to pick this up? :D

    Yes, less than 24 hours later, on a Saturday, they made a decision to go from "no news" to implementing this feature. Not only that, but miracle of miracles, they've also decided to forego their decade old policy of not talking about future features and are announcing this one prior to the public beta. Hooray! :rolleyes:
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    davidviro
    Lyricist I
    Feb 7, 2016 11:23 AM UTC
    waiting for this great feature that will be virtual zones.
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    Stuart_W
    Stuart_W
    World-Class Superstar
    Feb 7, 2016 11:42 AM UTC
    waiting for this great feature that will be virtual zones.

    If you hold your breath then the feature you crave will be implemented much quicker
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    lcuenoud
    Trending Lyricist I
    Feb 20, 2016 11:24 AM UTC
    Yes it would be so useful to be able to save groups. Being obliged to group and ungroup all the time is really annoying ! That seems so easy to program, I don't understand neither why sonos hasn't made it yet...
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    rhett7660
    Enthusiast I
    Nov 5, 2018 8:50 PM UTC
    Giving this very old thread a nice bump as this is something I really wish they would implement also. This would be especially nice now that we have voice control for our devices.
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      Jeff S
      Jeff S
      Retired Sonos Staff
      Nov 5, 2018 9:11 PM UTC
      Giving this very old thread a nice bump as this is something I really wish they would implement also. This would be especially nice now that we have voice control for our devices.

      Hi rhett7660,

      Thanks for reaching out. I'll send along a feature request to add saved groups to the Sonos app.
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      upstatemike
      Nov 5, 2018 9:17 PM UTC
      I'm not really clear what is being requested here? Do you want a set of pre-defined groups where any given speaker can only be in one group? (If a speaker was in multiple groups and each group was playing something different what would the speaker common to both groups be playing?)

      Should speakers be allowed to be in more than one group and just get excluded from the second group if they are already busy playing something in the first group?

      Should a group override whatever is playing by pulling any speakers it needs from an already playing group and put them into the newly requested second group?

      Should any already playing group just be stopped and the group completely ungrouped to free up speakers for the new request? (will likely tick off whoever was listening to the first group).

      It would be good to know exactly what you are asking the save groups to do.
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