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Contributor I
June 5, 2024
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Play in Another Room

  • June 5, 2024
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The old app had the ability to “play in another room” by clicking the three dots to the right of a song or such.  Is this hurried in the new app, or coming, or what?

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Best answer by Corry P

Hi @Dehbach 

There has never been an option to specifically play to a speaker other than the one currently selected in the old Sonos app from the 3-dot menu, but if you had not chosen something to play recently, then the app would have asked you where you wanted what you had just selected to play, regardless of how you asked something to play.

Now, with the new app, you can select the room you want at any point by swiping (not tapping) the Now Playing bar at the bottom of the screen to see the speaker selection screen. So, if you find yourself about to select something to play, but realise the wrong room is selected in the app, swipe Now Playing up, select the correct room, then swipe Now Playing down again and select the music you want playing.

It will take some time to get used to this, but it will be habit for you soon.

So, to clarify, tapping Now Playing expands the Now Playing screen as it used to, whereas swiping Now Playing brings up the room selection screen.

I hope this helps.

22 replies

jgatie
June 5, 2024

Sorry, but I do not recall that option available from the 3 little dots.  The way you played in another room on the old app was to tap on the Grouping icon, then select what rooms you wish to play, then tap Done.

 

On the new app, it’s basically the same thing:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/group-and-ungroup-rooms

DehbachAuthor
Contributor I
June 5, 2024

I do not think I am making this up.  I used it all the time to play musing for my daughter in another room while I was playing something else somewhere else.

Prodigy III
June 5, 2024

On the Now Playing Screen, tap the room name at the bottom next to the icon of two speakers. This brings up the grouping screen where you can tick or untick the rooms you want the music to play that music in. 

(You can also just tap the same two speaker icon at the bottom of the Home Screen.)

Edit: To just select one room to play music in, tap the name of your system (top left on the Home Screen) and choose the room/speaker. Then whatever music you select will play in that room.

melvimbe
June 5, 2024

I do not think I am making this up.  I used it all the time to play musing for my daughter in another room while I was playing something else somewhere else.

 

Is the source of the music coming from a aux input, a turntable perhaps?  I could be way off, as I don’t use aux input, but you can play the audio from an aux input in a different room that where the turntable is connected.  This sounds like what you’re referring to.

Danny
DehbachAuthor
Contributor I
June 6, 2024

No, off a service (Apple Music).  This was a thing!  See: 

 

Contributor II
June 6, 2024

I know what you mean Dehbach. I’m also experiencing the same issue. The 3 dots used to give you options to view the album info of a song, play that song in another room, save to a playlist, etc etc. 

Lyricist I
July 8, 2024

I do not think I am making this up.  I used it all the time to play musing for my daughter in another room while I was playing something else somewhere else.

You’re not making it up. This was my most common way to play music. With this, you could search first, then decide where to play.

 

With the new app, you need to choose the speaker(s) first (tap your system name at the top left) and THEN choose what you want to play.

Moderator edit: You can also swipe the Now Playing screen up to get the same list of speakers.

Lyricist I
July 9, 2024

Not making it up. You used to be able to search for a song, and when selecting it, you had many options, and one was play in another room. I used this a lot.

 

would be great to have this added to the new app. When I say added, I mean kept, as this was one of many things that was far superior in the old app.

Lyricist I
August 4, 2024

Has anyone done a video on this? Its driving me crazy. I’ve tried all morning to figure this out. I can’t see how to select a different source for another room! 

Senior Virtuoso
August 4, 2024

I do not think I am making this up.  I used it all the time to play musing for my daughter in another room while I was playing something else somewhere else.

If you mean within the Sonos app, I think you are remembering incorrectly. The “three dots” would let you, for example, remove a radio station from My Sonos, or bring up Album information, add music to My Sonos, etc depending upon what’s playing. 
 

To access play to another room you either select the required room from the Home Screen, or use the triangle-in-a-square icon @jgatie refers to above if you want to group and share audio.