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michaelghayes
Contributor I
December 5, 2018
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Music mode for surround sound setup

I have a beam, sub and 2 ones setup in a surround sound setup for my TV. It works great for movies and for playing music directly through sonos. The issue I am having is that I watch a lot of music videos on my TV. When listing to music I use the 'full' rather than using the surrounds for ambiant effects. I would love to be able to get something for similar when playing music through my TV.
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      Smilja
      SmiljaAnswer
      December 5, 2018
      I have a beam, sub and 2 ones setup in a surround sound setup for my TV. It works great for movies and for playing music directly through sonos. The issue I am having is that I watch a lot of music videos on my TV. When listing to music I use the 'full' rather than using the surrounds for ambiant effects. I would love to be able to get something for similar when playing music through my TV.
      Not possible. You are watching TV regardless of whether movies, musicals, rock operas, music videos etc.; the Beam only recognizes that the signal is coming in from the TV, it doesn't know what's currently playing.
      »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
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      Radboud
      Lyricist I
      September 7, 2020

      As an addition to the full setting, make the surround speakers (In this mode)available for adjusting the volume.

        dwolcott
        Lyricist I
        November 11, 2020

        As an addition to the full setting, make the surround speakers (In this mode)available for adjusting the volume.

        This should be the fix.

        As a software engineer this would be an easy feature add if their software is written and designed properly, if not, then it might be a hard add...ie, multiple departments working on speaker vs app vs tv vs music code bases and the org structure doesn't help the bad interface designs created from org silos (Conway's Law in action)...

         

        Also another use case is Android Casting... On my android phone I can cast music only streams to chromecast ultra but it's not a good idea because sonos sees it as TV audio even without video feed...so a quick button to say 'go into music mode' should be a thing on any av system given the current consumer trends of streaming and casting (A trend Sonos Promotes). And despite some people saying go get a different AV setup if you like listening to concerts goes against this consumer trends Sonos is a part of and sells themselves as an easy AV solutions for all your sound needs; thus, the exact argument for adding it.

        But for now my live and recorded concerts sound diminished and I use my iPad to control music streams via airplay since I can't cast from my phone (and the sonos app is horrible for viewing music on linked services) and have it in full music mode

        Cheers!

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