As Neil pointed out, grouping 2 different players/zones together is the best way as the stream is perfectly synchronized. I accidently at one point played an internet radio station in 2 rooms, but basically selected the same station on each player separately and I was wondering why it sounded off, the music was just not 100% in sync until I realized it was playing in both rooms independently.
I guess if you had 2 separate Airport Express units connected to 2 different Sonos players you could then of course play individually to them, but if you want to play the same thing in both rooms it is always recommended to group these rooms together. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sonos questions Krister, I’m not quite certain that I follow your question, I’ll give you a few examples of what you can do, if I’ve not covered what you’re wishing to do, please explain a little more. You can group players or zones as Sonos call them together, this means that the source shall be played in complete sync across any zone within that group, so, an audio book or other source. You can, provided you have either an Apple AirPort Express/Extreme connected to your Sonos system, play directly from your Audible or other iOS App using AirPlay, or, music from within the Sonos controller App from your phone / iPad / iPod Touch to your Sonos system, either single zone or group. If you are asking can I play two different sources from my single device to two different Sonos zones at the same time, I suspect not, but, it maybe achievable with AirPlay and Sonos streaming from the device, however, not recommended and may even not work. Please let me know a little more about what you are looking to do and hopefully we can get this cracked. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > On 7 Jun 2015, at 16:53, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Another Sonos related question that i would love to have the answer to is > this: I want to have two rooms playing the same type of thing, in this case > an audio book but i want to have the units in those rooms playable > independently of eachother, that is, all that the units share is what they > play, can this at all be done? > /Krister > >> 7 jun 2015 kl. 17:47 skrev Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]>: >> >> Louise, >> >> Long time no speak, if you’re still living locally and need more help then >> the below, get in touch and I’ll see if I can help you out. >> >> As Sieghard has already answered most of this hopefully you’re already good, >> but, here’s a quick round up. >> >> Shuffle mode for music playback with the iPhone iOS controller is found >> within the Queue, which is the very last button on the iOS controller for >> iPhone, bottom right of the screen. Double tap this and at the top there are >> three options, close the queue, shuffle and repeat. >> >> You can also from this menu select by double tapping on it any of the tracks >> in your queue, you can also, at the bottom of the screen edit the queue, >> save the queue for future play and other options. >> >> The iPad controller for iOS has a few more of the discrete menu controls out >> on the main interface owing to the greater level of screen relostate >> available on that platform. >> >> Sieghard is correct, when using the stream function from another device to >> the Sonos system you cannot access music locally stored on other devices >> with controllers installed to play that music, however, as Sieghard has >> said, you can have this music on a computer/laptop on your network, which >> must be left on at all times you want it, and, it must be within a folder >> that is publicly accessible on the network, the other, better option is a >> NAS (network attached storage) unit or network hard-drive. These use very >> little electricity and are an always on solution, this is what I do >> personally, then anyone using your system can access that music from any >> controller at any time. >> >> Hope that this helps, and, welcome to Sonos! >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Neil Barnfather >> >> Talks List Administrator >> Twitter @neilbarnfather >> >> TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple >> iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your >> accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com >> >> URL: - www.talknav.com >> e-mail: - [email protected] >> Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 >> >>> On 12 Apr 2015, at 18:22, Louise Redsull <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> So I took the plunge and have purchased Sonos (a play 3 and a play 5). So >>> far things are going pretty well and set-up was fairly easy. I just have a >>> couple of questions. >>> >>> 1. 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