Sonos Digital Music System - Manual (Page 29)

Chapter 3: Windows® Setup and Operation 3-7
Managing Your Zones
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 any time 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
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 zone 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.
To link a zone to a zone group
You can create a zone group first and then select music to play, or you can add a zone
to a zone group where music is already playing.
1. From the Zones pane, highlight the zone you want to link another zone or zone
group to.
2. Click Link Zone.
3. Select a zone to add to the group, and click OK. If you want to join all the zones in
your house to this music queue, select All Zones-Party Mode
. All of your
ZonePlayers will then play the same music in synchrony until you drop the
zones from the zone group.
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 before linking a zone. See "To create a Sonos Playlist"
on page 3-11.