Simple ? - How to turn off

This took me a little while to get used to also. Since the Sonos ZP is really a network appliance (much like a router or switch) it stays on all the time. Since the controller puts itself to sleep automatically, you do not have to worry about turning it off.

Perhaps in a future upgrade, timer functionality could be implemented to start and stop playback according to a user defined schedule.

millermt

The ZonePlayer has two power-on states.

"Not playing music" : The CPU/Wireless is active

"Playing music" : The CPU/Wireless and Amplifier are active. The amp is automatically switched on when there is music to play, and off the moment the music stops.

Thanks, Chris.

Chris -

Great system. I'm using an NAS and it set up in 2 minutes. One idiosyncrasy though. If I'm listening to music and I decide I want to go out for the day, I can't just turn the music off. I have to either pause or clear the queue to stop the music. I know in the digital domain a pause is like turning off the music, but decades of human erogonomics make it seem odd to use pause to stop the music permanently from the controller. What say you? 😮

Chris -

Great system. I'm using an NAS and it set up in 2 minutes. One idiosyncrasy though. If I'm listening to music and I decide I want to go out for the day, I can't just turn the music off. I have to either pause or clear the queue to stop the music. I know in the digital domain a pause is like turning off the music, but decades of human erogonomics make it seem odd to use pause to stop the music permanently from the controller. What say you? :o
I think this is the price Sonos pays for being a leader in Digital Music Systems.

As you point out pause is equivalent to stop - we could have added a button for stop; but it would have just done the same as pause.

If it is any consolation we heavily debated this during the design phase :)

Chris.

This discussion of "physical off" and our long term human interaction with electricity is curious. Should we care that pause is the same as off? (Can we evolve :rolleyes: ?)

What about an Internet Radio stream . . .if I pause it on the way out the door, have I disconnected from the Internet streaming server? or am I wasting bandwidth as they drop in my home's bit bucket?

-Les

What about an Internet Radio stream . . .if I pause it on the way out the door, have I disconnected from the Internet streaming server? or am I wasting bandwidth as they drop in my home's bit bucket?
When you hit pause, we stop streaming the music from the Internet.

Thanks, Chris.

If it is any consolation we heavily debated this during the design phase :)

Chris.

While I consider myself to be a technophile, I struggled for about 4 hours with this -- poring through the user manual trying to figure out how to turn the system off.

I now know mute = off, but for those of us who don't run networks / write code / etc. for a living, it's not clear at all that this is the case. If the eventual hope is to sell this system into the mass market (a la ipod), then an off button -- or at least some mention or discussion of "how to turn off" in the manual -- would be helpful.

Actually, that's my suggestion for a future update -- program one of the soft keys to read "Turn Off." Even if it just does whole house mute, it would be more intuitive (IMHO) than the current setup.

Cheers,

Hoya

BTW - I'm streaming KCSB at the moment (wife and I did our undergrad there). You guys are lucky to be HQ'd in SB.

Likewise, a Tivo has no stop. It has a Pause and a back, but no stop.

Likewise, a Tivo has no stop. It has a Pause and a back, but no stop.

True, but I look at Tivo differently. I expect my Tivo to be on -- always -- otherwise it wouldn't record all those reruns of "Quantum Leap" that come on at 1:00am.

In any event, I'm afraid my original point wasn't clear. I look at the sonos the same way I look at my stereo system or my television. I couldn't figure out how to turn the sonos system off, and the manual doesn't contain anything about "turning the system off." Yes, page 5-10 in the manual tells you how to pause the whole system, but I personally don't equate "pause" with "off." As you can see from the OP, I'm not the only one. Pehaps a passage in the manual that pause = off would be helpful for those of us who think that way.

The ipod manual is pretty clear in this regard -- it tells you how to turn the unit off (hold pause for 2 seconds). And yes, they use the term "off" (http://search.info.apple.com/?btnG=Search&lr=lang_en&type=kmanual&kword=&as_q=ipod%20off)

Regardless of my initial frustrations, it is a great system and I do enjoy using it. I'm already thinking about adding a few more ZPs to the system.

Cheers,

Hoya Saxa

I would like to see the white light turn off after no use. The light can be distracting in a dark bedroom.