Minimum Volume is too loud to enjoy background music

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The minimum volume on a Play 1 for instance (volume level 1) is too loud to let the music play as background.
It's "no music" or "too loud music" on volume level 1 Nothing in between. Ideally I could lower the music volume like an old amplifier. It's as simple as that. We use the Sonos system on the lowest volume side and the minimum volume is just way too high. I'm surprised that nobody else raises this.

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Ryan SAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi everyone, starting today with Sonos 9.2 there's the ability to use the mobile controller for Android or iOS to set a maximum volume for each of your Sonos players. The reason I bring it up in here, is that if you have the maximum volume set at 50%, the whole volume bar will still go from 0-100, but 100% will now reflect what your volume limit is set to. This has the added benefit of being able to get more granular control of players at low volume, as the volume steps will scale up or down with the max volume.

So, if you never set your players above a certain volume, this is a great chance to improve the control at lower volumes. Play around with it and see if this helps.

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wyk126

Contributor I

After 4 years, I can confirm this still not been solved. Setting the Volume limitation doesn’t solve the issue. Also it’s not based on the streaming service, I played it through Sonos app directly so the audio source should come straight to Sonos speaker, nothing to do with the 3rd party app.

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qwerty2017

Lyricist III

I’ve posted on this thread years ago, just posting again to say how completely ridiculous it is that Sonos has not fixed this issue. All the pages of recommendations on this thread do nothing. Reducing the max volume makes no difference, connecting to the speakers via airplay makes no difference, no matter what you do, the 1 increment volume is too loud for background music, especially in a bedroom. (And yes I know how to properly increase the volume from 0 to 1 by tapping the right side of the volume slider in the Sonos app 1 time).