Chapter 3 Managing Zones; What Are Zones; Zone Groups - Sonos Digital Music System User Manual

Managing Zones

What Are Zones?

Enjoy music in every room of your house—Sonos works in up to 32 zones. We call
them zones because you can play a different song in each room, or you can group
them together to play the same music across zones when you're having a party, or
anytime you want the same music selection to play in more than one room.
The Zones menu allows you to view the music that is playing in any zone in your
house. Zones can be managed from the Desktop Controller software or from the
handheld Sonos Controller.
From either of these, you can:
• See an alphabetical list of the zones in your house
• Link zones together to form a zone group
• Drop a zone from a zone group
• Set clocks and alarms
• Set sleep timer
Music will continue to play while you browse your zone settings. The current zone is
highlighted on your screen, and the music selections you make will play in that zone.
When you set an alarm, if you check Include Linked Zones, the alarm will play in the
zones that are linked together at the time the alarm goes off. It does not play in the
zones that were linked when the alarm was originally added to the Sonos system.

Zone Groups

A zone can be grouped together with any other zone(s) to form a zone group. This will
cause all the zones in the zone group to play the same music in synchrony. You can link
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