Switching from Squeezebox to Sonos

There is a pause/play button on all speakers.  Hit that and the alarm will stop.  You cannot snooze with the speaker buttons, for that you need the app.  

By “is it then possible to switch to random play of my Windows music library” do you mean without using the app?  Depends.  If you used a playlist containing your Windows music library as your alarm, then hitting play will resume that playlist.  If not, you need to use the app.

Many thanks.  I’ll now start to see which speakers I want for which rooms.

Damn…. meant to ask another question…

Can each of us (x3 people), have the app on our phones and control what gets played out to what speaker as individuals (own passwords and playlists), or does each instance of the app have to sign-in and control the system from a single sign-in?

Yes a Sonos alarm can be stopped by pressing the speakers play/pause button as long as the touch controls have not been switched off in the App. Also see this link:

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/452
 

With regards to the other question, after stopping an Alarm the speaker queue playlist then takes precedence and you can begin playing the tracks pre-loaded to the queue. Note some users set their devices to sometimes update automatically during the night and if that happens the speaker will reboot and may wipe its queue so it’s best to schedule the auto-update for the firmware during the day instead.

Hope that assists.

You can have multiple accounts for each streaming service, and select the account as the default on your personal device.

Use multiple accounts for the same music service

 However, the local library is communal, as is each queue on each device, that is everyone can add to the queue on any device.

The Sonos App is just a ‘remote’ - you can have it on up-to 32 devices on the same network Household.

Each mobile controller device sees the same system (which is stored on each of the players), but each individual can install their own music provider service account etc. See this link too:

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3624

Edit: Ah jgatie beat me to it (x2)👍

Many thanks all.  Having talked this through with the other half, there’s another very good question…

Do any of the speakers display the time and or track info being played?

We have squeezebox classics in the bedrooms and these have a rudimentary display.

No.  None have a display.  That’s one thing Squeezebox did that Sonos doesn’t. 

Thought not :-(

Might need a cheap separate bedside clock. 

Your decision, but why switch to an inflexible proprietary system with limited features?

The contemporary version of the squeezebox system can play to squeezebox devices, chromecast, airplay, upnp (including Sonos), Amazon Echos, and Bluetooth speakers and headphones. Control via a slick phone/tablet app and via any browser.

Sonos plays to Sonos and has a clunky app.