Sonos Multi-room music system User manual

Sonos® Multi-Room Music System

User Guide

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Version: 090401

Contents

Sonos® Multi-Room Music

System

Chapter 1 Overview

Your Computer Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

System Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Language Preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Chapter 2 System Setup

Setting Up a New Sonos System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Adding to an Existing Sonos System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Add a ZoneBridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Add a ZonePlayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Add a Sonos Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Add an iPhone or iPod touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Renaming a ZonePlayer or ZoneBridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Turning Off White Status Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

Changing a ZonePlayer’s Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Equalization (Sound Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

Turning Off Music System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Using Line-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Using Line-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Connecting a music source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Changing the line-in encoding setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

ZonePlayer Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

ZonePlayer 120 Rear Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

ZonePlayer 100 Rear Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

ZonePlayer 90/80 Rear Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

ZoneBridge Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36

Chapter 3 Managing Zones

What Are Zones? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Zone Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Linking zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Dropping zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Chapter 4 Managing and Playing Music

Available Music Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Managing Music Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Using the Sonos Controller 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Selecting from Music Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Using the Sonos Controller 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Music Library Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Sort folders by preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Compilation albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Imported playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22

Managing the Music Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Removing a track from the queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Moving a track within the queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Clearing the music queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26

Changing the play mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26

Viewing large album art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28

Music Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28

Activating a music trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29

Adding a compatible music service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30

Showing/hiding the Music Services tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-32

Your music service password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34

Removing a music service trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34

Audible.com® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35

Adding an Audible account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37

Adding an additional Audible account to Sonos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-38

Deleting an Audible account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-38

Deezer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39

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Last.fm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-40

Napster® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-41

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-45

Using the Sonos Controller 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-48

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-51

Pandora® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-54

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-54

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-58

Using the Sonos Controller 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-61

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64

Rhapsody® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-67

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-71

Using the Sonos Controller 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-76

SIRIUS® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-78

Using the Desktop Controller for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-79

Using the Desktop Controller for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-82

Using the Sonos Controller 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-86

Using the Sonos Controller for iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-88

Windows Media® Player 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-91

Sonos Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-93

Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-95

Selecting a radio station or show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-96

Setting up or changing a local radio location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-97

Adding a new radio station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-99

Editing a radio station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-100

Adding a station or show to your Favorites list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-101

Deleting a station or show from your Favorites list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-101

Chapter 5 Desktop Controller for Windows

Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Clock and Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Additional Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Firewall Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Chapter 6 Desktop Controller for Macintosh

Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Clock and Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Additional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Uninstalling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Firewall Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Enabling Windows File Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Chapter 7 The Sonos® Controller 100

Connecting the Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Battery Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Using the Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Volume control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Sensors and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Sleep modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8

Clock and Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Online Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Adjusting Controller Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Additional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Chapter 8 Sonos® Controller for iPhone™

Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Sleep/Wake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Clock and Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Online Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Appendix A Tips and Troubleshooting

Basic Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

ZonePlayer Status Indicator Explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-11

Appendix B Sonos Device Specifications

Sonos ZonePlayer 120/100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Sonos ZonePlayer 90/80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Sonos Controller 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5

Sonos ZoneBridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-6

Sonos Loudspeaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-8

Appendix C Alternate Sonos System Setup

System Setup Using Sonos Controller CR100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

System Setup for NAS Device (no router) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6

System Setup Using iPhone/iPod touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-9

Index

Regulation Information

Europe

Sonos declares that this product complies with the requirements and other relevant

provisions of the R&TTE Directive (1999/5/ED). A copy of the full Declaration of

Conformance may be obtained at http://eu.sonos.com.

Attention In France, operation is limited to indoor use within the band 2.454-

2.4835 GHz.

(Attention. En France, l’utilisation en intérieur est limitée à la bande de fréquences

2,454-2,4835 GHz.)

USA

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B

digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to

provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential

installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy

and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful

interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that

interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause

harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by

turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the

interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which

the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced audio technician for help. Modifications

not expressly approved by the manufacturer may void the user's authority to

operate the equipment under FCC rules.

Canada

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003 and RSS-210.

Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause

interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference, including interference

that may cause undesired operation of the device.

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Industry Canada

The installer of this radio equipment must ensure that the antenna is located or

pointed such that it does not emit RF field in excess of Health Canada limits for the

general population; consult Safety Code 6, obtainable from Health Canada’s Web

site www.hc-sc.gc.ca.

RF Exposure Requirements

To comply with FCC and EU exposure essential requirements, a minimum separation

distance of 20cm (8 inches) is required between the equipment and the body of the

user or nearby persons.

Recycling Information

This symbol on the product or on its packaging indicates that this product shall not

be treated as household waste. Instead please deliver it to the applicable collection

point for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. By recycling this

product correctly, you will help conserve natural resources and prevent potential

negative environmental consequences. For more detailed information about recycling

of this product, please contact your local city office, your household waste disposal

service or the shop where you purchased the product.

Overview

Your Computer Requirements

To play the digital music files stored on your computer, your computer network must

meet the following requirements:

Network Requirements

• DSL/cable modem, or LAN-based, high-speed Internet connection.

• If you currently have a cable or DSL modem connected directly to your com-

puter, you should install a router between your modem and your computer

to enhance your computer’s security, and to share the Internet connection with

your Sonos Multi-Room Music System and other devices. If you do not have a

router, you should purchase and install one before proceeding.

• If you are going to use the Sonos Controller for iPhone application (iPhone

or iPod touch) to control your Sonos system, you will need a wireless router

in your home network.

System requirements

• 500 MHz processor or better

• 128 MB RAM minimum/256 MB RAM recommended

• Network hardware as described above

Note: Your network must have a high-speed Internet connection, as the

Sonos® Multi-Room Music System is designed to provide you with online

software updates. Your Sonos system must be registered to receive these

updates so be sure to register during the setup process. At no time is your e-

mail address provided to other companies.

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