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Play in Another Room

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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.

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Marcoand23

Lyricist I

Can you attach a screen shot? This does not work for me. There’s no way it’s this complicated.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Can you attach a screen shot? This does not work for me. There’s no way it’s this complicated.

Have you looked at the link in @jgatie’s post above?

Edited to add: disregard that - it’s about grouping.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/guides/sonosapp

Well, it seems it’s context-based. Scroll down in the user guide and there’s a screenshot and description of the “three dots”.

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Heliosphan

Lyricist II

You’re not crazy. This is one of the main things that’s been bugging me about the new app since May.

Tapping play on a selection in search no matter how long it’s been since the previous playback finished starts off playing where it left off, often contextually in the “wrong” room.

The three dots in the search menu give you queuing options instead of playback choices… nothing that would intuitively lead you to starting playback where you actually want. What should take two taps instead becomes tedious as you must first tap the speaker icon at the bottom, selectively toggle on/off multiple places, and then go back to hit the play button again.

The folks who made the new app seriously must not ever use it in their day to day life. It’s just so obviously lacking compared to what it once was 😞

Corry PAnswer

Sonos Staff

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.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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DehbachAuthor

Contributor I

Corey— I am 100% confident that there was such an option, but thanks.

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @Dehbach

There was definitely a Play Now option, as was said, but as I understand it, it was not that option specifically that prompted a query as to where music should be played - that just happened automatically after you hadn’t used the app in a little while. I may be wrong, but that is how I understood it to work.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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DehbachAuthor

Contributor I

For reasons that are about children’s music, I used this all the time. In any event, this is a feature that should exist.

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kpr

Prodigy I

The option “Play in Another Room…” is in the old 16.1 app _when you do a search_ and in the results (e.g. album or song) tap the … next to the song or upper right for an album.

Here is an example of YouTube Music result when I have tapped … next to the song. The second screenshot is of the UI when I have tapped “Play in Another Room…”.

This functionality is missing in the new app. As is the Add to Sonos Playlist. The old Add Song to My Sonos is likely Save to Sonos Favorites in the new app.

Maybe add this to the feature request list if the developer team isn’t aware and has not yet plans to bring these features back(?)

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @kpr

I have tagged this thread as a feature request.

However, considering you can select a speaker at any time by swiping up the Now Playing bar, I don’t see this old method being re-implemented (in addition, there are no more tabs to switch between, so it’s already easier than before). It’s just my opinion and not for me to decide, however - which is why I have tagged the thread.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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