Group with a Group Volume Control
Hi Community,
First time posting on this community but I’m a long suffering Sonos customer!
In the “good old days” if my memory serves me correctly, a “group” was called a “zone”. When we wanted to play the same audio source simultaneously on different zones, the app just copied the source to the various zones but control was independent i.e. you could pause a specific zone or change the volume of the zone and it didn’t impact the rest of the speakers.
Now the current iteration is by a far a great improvement in so much as “party mode” (as think it used to be called) is true everywhere play controls house is in sync.
What I am missing however is, what if I want to control a group as part of “everywhere”. For example, “upstairs”, “downstairs” & “garden” each have 3 speakers in them in various rooms. I want to turn “garden” up but leave the rest unchanged - I have to change all three individually within the “playing now” control for “everywhere” - OR because the “garden” group exists but to control it I have to separate it from “everywhere”, add a different music source, do what I want then add it back in.
tech support clearly didn’t understand what I meant as I was told no one has every asked for this but it is old functionality that was lost with the improvements made to grouping but this core function has been lost.
you may ask “is it such a big deal to change the speakers individually to adjust the volume?” - the answer would be “no” if it were just a simple change but the point is I have pre-determine the relative volume of the speakers to each other based on their location, power, vicinity to other speakers etc so would like to adjust up and down “in sync” with each other.
Long term user, work in tech, if you think there’s a simple fix I’ve missed then I’ve probably done a bad job explaining the issue as opposed to me being incompetent using Sonos! Apologies in advance if I am, in fact, useless but please take a second look at my question before suggesting anything “basic”