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Contributor I
March 24, 2021
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playing audio on just one speaker in a surround set up

New to the Sonos game. Currently have a beam and 2x ones in a surround set up in my living room. 
 

wondering if it is possible to play audio on just one of my ones in the set up individually? Or does it have to play in the full set up. 

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UKMedia
UKMediaAnswer
March 24, 2021

New to the Sonos game. Currently have a beam and 2x ones in a surround set up in my living room. 
 

wondering if it is possible to play audio on just one of my ones in the set up individually? Or does it have to play in the full set up. 

Hi

With a surround set-up, Sonos treat the whole group as a single Sonos Room and so it’s not possible to only have audio from one speaker without breaking the set-up.  If you are worried about the volume, you could select the Night setting in Settings for the Beam.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

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UKMedia
UKMediaAnswer
March 24, 2021

New to the Sonos game. Currently have a beam and 2x ones in a surround set up in my living room. 
 

wondering if it is possible to play audio on just one of my ones in the set up individually? Or does it have to play in the full set up. 

Hi

With a surround set-up, Sonos treat the whole group as a single Sonos Room and so it’s not possible to only have audio from one speaker without breaking the set-up.  If you are worried about the volume, you could select the Night setting in Settings for the Beam.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
Contributor I
March 24, 2021

Thanks for your response. Not a deal breaker just was curious in the rare case I wanted to play Spotify or listen to radio on one of the ones as opposed to having the full set up playing audio. 😀