Bas ic information
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Basic information
3.1
Room/zone
A room, als o known as a zone, is the area where you lis ten to mus ic with your Sonos devices .
Rooms are merely a notional concept. A room may be an actual room or several rooms in a group:
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An actual room, s uch as the kitchen, can be a room for Sonos .
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Several actual rooms , s uch as the hallway and bathroom, can als o compris e a room for Sonos .
Sonos uses the terms "room" and "zone" s ynonymous ly.
Room
Dining room
Living room
Sonos device
Mus ic
Figure 1: One Sonos device per room
3.2
Play music in rooms synchr o-
nously
More than one Sonos device may be ins talled in a room. Each individual Sonos device could play a different
mus ic s ource. This would generally be very unpleas ant for lis teners , even if the devices played the s ame mu-
s ic s ince playback is us ually not s ynchronis ed.
Room
Dining room
Living room
Sonos device
Mus ic
Figure 2: Two Sonos devices per room which play different music
You can connect the Sonos devices in s uch a way that the mus ic from all Sonos devices within a room is
s ynchronis ed when it plays .
Room
Dining room
Living room
