I’m going to raise this topic one more time in the hopes that someone from Sonos will respond. As many others have noted in the countless threads on this topic, there are requests for this feature that go back 15 years.  And before someone chimes in that this has already been implemented, let me clarify what I (and many others) are requesting and it is definitely not the currently implemented grouping feature.

A named group, as I define it, would be a persistent group of speakers with a unique name that could be selected as you would an individual speaker.  In its most basic implementation this could be used as the target of an alarm.  How silly is it that the only way I can have an alarm play to multiple speakers is to go in every evening and create a group and then hope that no one in the household disturbs it?  As it is, if I want NPR to play automatically in the morning in the kitchen and bedroom I have to set up multiple alarms and put up with unsynced audio.

Beyond this simple enhancement though, I think of the feature as a sort of audio “scene” where you would have the option to also save volume settings so that, for instance, you could create a “dinner party” scene that groups living room, dining room or whatever and at the same time sets appropriate volume levels. 

None of this is that complex to implement nor does it have to complicate the interface much.  What about it Sonos?