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Adjusting group volume on new Sonos app

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May 24, 2024
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There used to be a way on the old app where you could adjust group volume but dragging overall volume to zero, lifting finger, and then increasing the volume. All speakers would then have synced to the same volume.

The new app seems to have lost this feature - is there another way of doing it I haven’t found?

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Best answer by John B

Hi. I am away from my system at the moment so can’t experiment. I would just point out that playing all speakers on the same value number does not achieve playing at the same volume. At least, not if the speakers are different models.

So it would come as no surprise if this is another feature lost in the new app, but I think it is one of the more minor losses. Still frustrating for you, though, if you found this helpful.

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John BAnswer

Hi. I am away from my system at the moment so can’t experiment. I would just point out that playing all speakers on the same value number does not achieve playing at the same volume. At least, not if the speakers are different models.

So it would come as no surprise if this is another feature lost in the new app, but I think it is one of the more minor losses. Still frustrating for you, though, if you found this helpful.

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Pipster294Author

Contributor I

Thanks, @John B - hadn’t quite appreciated the the value number will still vary in terms of what it means for different models (my system made up of two Ones, an Era 100 and a Beam), so that’s good to know.

I posted this question then saw there’d been quite a few bigger issues with the new app I hadn’t yet spotted...

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Kommish

Contributor I

I find the loss of this feature very frustrating. There are times as I move through the house I might adjust the volume up on a specific speaker and later on I want to sync them all to the same level. Now I have to go through each individual speaker to get them all to the same volume. I just don't understand why they would remove that feature. I could see if it was replaced with something but it just seems it's one less feature not a new, re-styled feature.

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Mjeffery

Lyricist I

Adjusting group volume is a huge task and takes multiple steps, where before the update it was clear and easy. Please restore this feature.

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mistyoptic

Avid Contributor III

Not all grouped speakers respond to master volume slider. Is this a (another) known issue?

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Mjeffery

Lyricist I

I'm disappointed this has not been addressed yet, since you removed the feature from the last update. I found the ability to control all volumes with one slide bar, (which had an easy to read number for reference), to be incredibly useful and a differentiating feature from your competitors. Currently, the single slide bar, which has no number for reference, is not as responsive and will not adjust all other speakers currently in use. Please fix this as the last update was a huge step backwards in useful features.

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Eyalniv

Lyricist I

I totally agree

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John B

There is an easy alternative for the scenario in the original post, if you have activated SVC

“Hey Sonos, set volume on all speakers to X”

(where X is between 1 and 100)

(Note: this will change the volume setting on all speakers in system)

Hope that helps

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JRogan

Lyricist I

Bring back the old volume % sliders. So frustrating controlling the volume. Honestly one of my favorite things about using the app was how easy it was to control speakers volume and chose which speakers were synced.

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John B

Bring back the old volume % sliders. So frustrating controlling the volume. Honestly one of my favorite things about using the app was how easy it was to control speakers volume and chose which speakers were synced.

What is difficult about controlling the volumes using the sliders in the new app? It seems to me fundamentally the same as before.

Now that I am no longer away from my system, I find that it is still fairly easy to zeroise all the sliders in a group and then have them move together. (Personally, I still don’t find that helpful, but we all use our systems differently.) But I still ask:what is the problem with controlling individual speaker volumes in a group please?

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