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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kpr

Prodigy I

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.

Hi Corry, fair points. I’ve seen in forums that some users used that feature. I never really did even with the old app because for me it’s always been logical to first select where I want to play and then what I want to play.

And as you say even while looking at the search result, swipe up > tap room you want to play in > tap play/shuffle in the results, takes less tapping than the old method of tap … > Play in Another Room > select the room > tap Play.*

So yes, I prefer the team to implement the queue management features first :)

* edit: the old app’s method allowed to group speakers at the same time in that view so that would be a difference, I.e. in the new app you’d need to group them first. That scenario would take more tapping.

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DehbachAuthor

Contributor 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(?)

Thank you!!!!!

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