User manual SONOS CONTROLLER FOR IPHONE

[. . . ] Sonos® Controller for iPhoneTM User Guide Sonos® Controller for iPhoneTM. For use with the Sonos® Multi-Room Music System. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, information retrieval systems, or computer network without the written permission of Sonos, Inc. in the United States, Canada and Australia, and a trademark of Sonos, Inc. [. . . ] You can also add your own favorite stations if they use streaming MP3 or WMA formats (not every radio station provides streams. ) Chapter 4: Managing and Playing Music 37 What is Line-in? You can connect an external line-in source such as a CD player, portable music player, or television to your Sonos Multi-Room Music System, and this audio can be streamed to any ZonePlayer(s) in your house. Managing Music Folders The Sonos Multi-Room Music System can play music from any computer or networkattached storage (NAS) device on your home network where you have shared music folders (music shares). During the setup process, you are guided through the process of accessing these shared music folders. You can use the Desktop Controller software to make changes to the shared folders Sonos accesses. You may need to make changes if you add a computer to your home network, or if you move shared folders from one location to another. Music shares are indexed by the Sonos Multi-Room Music System so you can view your music by categories. If you add new music to a folder that is already indexed, simply update your music index to add this music to your library. Updating the music index During the setup process, all of your available music folders are indexed for easy selection. If you add new music to a folder that is already indexed, simply update your music index to add the new music to your Sonos music library. From the Zone menu, select the zone you want to play music in, and then tap the Music button. 38 Sonos® Controller for iPhoneTM User Guide 2. Note: The music you select will play in the zone or zone group that is currently showing at the top of your display. Tap a selection to drill down through the menus (dragging and/or flicking with your finger to browse a list), until you find the desired selection. You can select all songs by an artist, all songs on an album, all songs in a genre, or drill down to select individual tracks. Power scroll When scrolling through a long list, you can tap any letter to the right of the list to make alphabetic browsing faster. Drag your finger through the list to the letter you desire, and then tap the letter to move immediately to the selections that begin with that letter. Power scroll - select a letter to make browsing faster 2. Tap the Back button to return to the previous music selection screen. Making a selection Simply tap a music selection, and select the desired action: · · · Play Now--stops playing the current selection (if one is playing) to play this selection Play Next--plays this selection next Replace Queue--plays this selection now and clears the current queue of Chapter 4: Managing and Playing Music 39 previous music selections · Add to Queue--places this selection at the end of the music queue If you've created Sonos playlists (saved queues), you can play them anytime by selecting Sonos Playlists from the Music menu. Note: If you have uncompressed files in your music collection, they may only be available for browsing and/or selection via Track or Browse by Folder, as uncompressed files may not contain detailed information such as artist, title and genre. Search You can use the Search feature to look for music selections within the Music Library, Napster, or Rhapsody. From the Music menu, tap the music source your want to search (Music Library, Napster, or Rhapsody. ) 2. Tap Search, and then select your search criteria (artists, albums, composers, or tracks). Type a full or partial name, and then tap Search. 40 Sonos® Controller for iPhoneTM User Guide 4. If you don't receive the desired search results, you can tap the Back button try again. to Music Library Preferences Contributing artists Contributing Artists are those who appear on individual tracks within an album, including those on a compilation or soundtrack album. You can set your preferences to show or hide these individual artists within a Contributing Artists view. From the Music menu, tap System Settings>Music Library Management>View Contributing Artists. The View Contributing Artists preference setting you select applies only to this Controller. [. . . ] If you would like to remove the SIRIUS 30-day trial from your Sonos music system after you activate it, please see "Removing a music service trial" on page 45 . (If you are using the SIRIUS Radio trial, select Music Service Trials>SIRIUS Internet Radio Trial instead). Note: SIRIUS allows playback of one radio channel at a time in your household. This means that if you are listening to SIRIUS in your home office, and someone in the kitchen starts a different SIRIUS channel, the SIRIUS channel in your home office will stop playing. Sonos Playlists Sonos Playlists are music queues you save for future listening. [. . . ]