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jishi_1Avid Contributor I
posted in Home theater

Regroup player when Autoplay line-in stops

I often feel frustrated that the Autoplay feature breaks my zone-grouping. I think that it would be an improvement if the player would regroup itself to the previous group as a member. Today it works like this: Lets say you have 3 players grouped, and playing. Player1, Player2 and Player3. If you have autoplay enabled on Player3, signal on the line-in would detach the player from the group, and start playing line-in. If the line-in stops, the player would still be on the line-in, but in a STOPPED state. I would rather see it working like this: Player1-3 is in a group. Player3 switches to line-in, and adjust it's volume to the preset. Line-in stops, Player3 should regroup with the other zones, and restore it to the volume previously set. If the group-zone is playing, so should the Player3. If not, it will be silent, but it will be grouped as it was before the line-in kicked in. I had a discussion about this in the forum a few months ago, http://forums.sonos.com/showthread

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7 years ago
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TrevorzalContributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Pandora and Shuffle Play Only Selected Stations

When I use Pandora (not Pandora One) I can select Shuffle Play and choose which of the many stations on my list I want to be included in that Shuffle. How is this feature enabled when using Pandora on Sonos. Does the Quickmix allow you to select a limited number of stations or does it just toggle between all of your stations.

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7 years ago
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Andy MasonContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Does Sonos desktop controller work with Windows XP?

I was instructed to update my Sonos desktop controller software on my laptop running Windows XP. However, following the download I was told that my OS did not support the Sonos desktop. Is it correct that XP is not supported? Thanks. Andy

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7 years ago
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Tommy_4Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Party mode

It would be a really neat feature to have some sort of party mode i could enable before the party, that would put MY controller as the master and all other controllers where guests. This way my guests that have connected to my sonos with their smart phone, can search for songs on my system but their only possibility is to queue the song(s) and not clear/skip the queue. Furthermore the guests shouldn't be able to stop/start/forward a song to break the rhythm and probably annoy the person that chose the current song playing. After the party is over, the master controller can just disable party mode and all controllers work evenly again.

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6 years ago
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AlexTeeAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Include Contributing Artists field in search!

I use both Artist and Album Artist tags frequently for my tracks. Sonos desktop controller (other controllers probably do the same) shows Artist in the information screen for the track, but when I select Artist Info->View Tracks by This Artist, the controller does not match anything. This is because Sonos interprets Album Artist (when it's not empty) tag as Artist, and the actual Artist appears only as Contributing Artist (if enabled in the controller's settings), but the search functions does not include the Contributing Artist field. Very inconvenient. Please, add Contributing Artist field in the Search function!

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Airgetlam
4 years ago
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Michael_147Contributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

is there going to be option to play music direct from android devices rather than have an external source?

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4 years ago
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EnnaNEnthusiast I
posted in Controllers and Music services

A linux controller is needed.

A linux controller for the Sonos system is really needed. A basic controller shouldn't be that hard to create, so even if the userbase is smaller then for Windows there shouldn't be a cost-reason to not do this. The strength of Sonos is ease-of use, and a user that -for instance- prefers Ubuntu will be left to use his/her phone.

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7 years ago
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James JohnsContributor I
posted in Speakers

CAN THE VOLUME BE SET TO RAMP UP SLOWLY?

WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE VOLUME RAMP UP SLOWING WHILE USING THE ALARM FEATURE

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6 years ago
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Rob_40Contributor II
posted in Controllers and Music services

iPhone app alarm snooze option

HI, Is there a way to snooze an alarm from the iphone app in the same way you can from the controllers? Thanks!

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7 years ago
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Matthias_1Contributor I
posted in Components and Architectural

Sonos Connect is missing digital audio input

Why doesn't the Sonos Connect support digital input so that you can use it to attach e.g. Play-3 speakers and the SUB to a TV? Every modern TV utilizes HDMI and Optical Output and you can find less and less dual RCA cable output. Yes, the Sonos Connect has a simple mini jack to dual RCA which I could use but I really don't want to try to watch movies that way. I am willing put put the money down for a good solution but it appears that there is none. I fear I have to take back the SUB and the connect. Do you know of any solution to this? Thanks!

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6 years ago
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Mossman1Contributor II
posted in Controllers and Music services

Album Shuffle

Similar to Itunes there should be Shuffle by album mode, which plays a complete album and then randomly plays another album in the playlist.

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Dirk_7
6 years ago
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Arjan_3Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Can I use Sonos from my Chromebook?

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alexihelligar
7 years ago
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einarsoTrending Lyricist I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Sonos as Intercom / PA system

Surprised I can not find this idea in here. My house is not exactly small, and I am now running 7 Sonos players. When running the Sonos app on iPhone, it would be great to be able to select a sone (or a sone group), press a button and talk via my phone to that sone. I can not imagine it being a technically complex solution. I would be really excited about being able to use Sonos in this way, and so would quite a few others! (see discussion forum): http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=8672 Is this something that can be considered? If this could be a part of Sonos long term solutions, I would wait for it. Else I would need to start think alternative solutions.

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6 years ago
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fdsljfsaAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Shuffle always on

Hi, One thing that is annoying is that there is no way to permanently turn ON the shuffle feature. In other words, no matter which playlist I select, I want it to be in SHUFFLE mode. At the moment, each time I select a playlist, I need to manually select shuffle. Seems obvious to me... some people don't care about the order of the tunes, but would appreciated that there is a good MIX all the time. Not the same tunes in the same order. Thanks

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6 years ago
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Adam BrownContributor I
posted in Components and Architectural

Can the Amp and Connect be told to output mono rather than stereo? Using with mono ceiling speakers in bathroom and kitchen.

Single ceiling speakers (already bought) being used in the bathroom and kitchen. I need to sum the stereo signal for those, as I listen to a lot of soul which is 'dual mono' i.e. drums on left, everything else on right. Can the output be set to mono?

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5 years ago
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bbbrittAvid Contributor I
posted in Speakers

Headphones?

I need Sonos or Sonos-compatible wireless headphones. Any suggestions?

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7 years ago
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AJM_1Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

PC User Interface/skin colour

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7 years ago
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mickeyblueeyesukContributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Sonos alarm/clock - display the time

It would be great if SONOS made a sonos 2 clock radio with a digital screen showing the time and all the normal features. A smaller bedroom version of the sonos where if you wake up at 5am and wanna know the time you can just look yet also have all the great features that sonos otherwise brings. Got to be a good seller and far cheaper than buying the controller to just keep in the dock showing the time!!!

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5 years ago
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erusowContributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Playback Speed

It would be nice to be able to adjust playback speed for podcasts and audiobooks.

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4 years ago
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GTSeattleAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

ALARMS: Add a "Snooze" Feature! :)

It would be great if a snooze button was added to the great alarms feature in Sonos!

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6 years ago
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timjnAvid Contributor I
posted in Components and Architectural

Sonos Bluetooth Connect

I would like to see a Sonos product similar to the Sonos Connect/ZP90 but instead of connecting to an amplifier it has a Bluetooth connection supporting A2DP/ APT X. You could then stream music from your iPod/iPhone, android phone or any device with Bluetooth similar to the way the iPod dock works, or the line in on the Connect, but the connection is made via Bluetooth rather than a wire In addition it should support transmitting music via Bluetooth so that a Bluetooth speaker or headphones could be used and it would work like a traditional zone player transmitting the music to the device attached to the zone via Bluetooth. I think this one device would meet the needs of some other requests here for sonos headphones, portable speakers and being able to play music directly from a PC/iPad etc as this could all be done over Bluetooth and using A2DP/APT X would give a good quality sound.

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6 years ago
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fdsljfsaAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Easily switch the music from one room to another

I have different rooms equiped with wall-mounted Play 3 devices. I would appreciate for an easy way to switch the music from one room to another. This is particularly useful if I spent some time building a playlist or selecting a radio station and that I don't want to have to go through search to find that station again. At the moment, my two options seems to be: 1- Stop the music in Room 1, then start music in Room 2 (need to rebuilt my playlist or search the radio station) 2- Group Room 2 to Room 1, and then ungroup Room 1 from Room 2. Both of those options are inelegant. If I could have some kind of "Sent to" function (or drag and drop a room on another one) that would be great.

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6 years ago
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fdsljfsaAvid Contributor I
posted in Speakers

Power over Ethernet (PoE) for Play devices

Hi, Although I love the fact that Play devices are wireless, the reality is that for someone like myself who wishes to mount them on a wall in various rooms, I still need to run power up to the speakers. Running power cables in the wall is even more trouble than running network cables. Worst, there is no way to do a clean job if you don't want to have ugly power outlets at the top of your walls and then you have an ugly power cable that is visible... Furthermore, if you want to avoid buying the Bridge, you need to run AT LEAST one network cable to the device anyway. Why bother having to run both power and Ethernet? So, I think my proposition is pretty simple (although it would need to happen on future versions of the hardware): Why not make the Ethernet port be PoE, which means that a PoE switch could supply power to the speaker. I do read that PoE have a maximum power of 35W (I also read 50W wat possible in a non-standard installation).. so maybe this will be an issue. But

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5 years ago
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JasonEskinContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Not all Spotify results showing up in search within Sonos?

I frequently find that the spotify app within Sonos not only does not refresh my own playlists, but now I'm finding it's not even loading all of the results on Spotify's own server. For example, search for "Taylor Swift" Her new album Red is available within Spotify, but if you search Spotify within Sonos, it is nowhere to be found.

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Edward R
6 years ago
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jonshapiroAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Support Windows 8 RT for Surface Tablet and Windows Phone 8 for Mobile Devices

This is not a full windows 8 platform but will work new surface tablet and Samsung and others plan to use this OS which is not fully windows 8 compatible. It would be very helpful if sonos would support this as the tablet looks promising.

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jgatie
8 years ago
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