Managing Your Zones (Dcr) - Sonos Digital Music System User Manual

Chapter 3: Windows® Setup and Operation

Managing Your Zones (DCR)

The Zones pane allows you to view the music currently playing in any zone in your
house. You can play a different song in each zone, or you can group zones together to
play the same music when you are having a party, or anytime you want the same
music selection to play in more than one room. Zones can be managed from either the
Zones pane or the Zones menu. 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
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.
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
or drop zones from a group while the music is playing. You can also link all the
ZonePlayers in your house with one touch by selecting All Zones-Party Mode.
Linking a zone
You can create a zone group first and then select music to play, or you can add a room
to a zone group where music is already playing.
Note: Any zones you link will automatically drop their current music queue and begin to play
the music queue from the highlighted zone. You may sometimes want to save your music
queue as a Sonos playlist before linking a zone. See "Sonos Playlists (DCR)".
From the Zones pane, highlight the zone you want to link to another zone or zone
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group.
Choose one of the following options:
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• Click Link Zone, or
• From the Zones menu, click Link Zone.
Select a zone to add to the group, and click OK. If you want to join all the zones in
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your house to this music queue, select All Zones-Party Mode
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