Sonos Multi-Room Music System manual Playback

Chapter 7: The Sonos® Controller 7-5

Scroll wheel

Use the scroll wheel to navigate through a displayed list. Use your thumb or finger to ‘turn’ the wheel clockwise to scroll down through the list, and counterclockwise to scroll up through the list.

OK

Press the OK button in the center of the scroll wheel to make selections.

Soft buttons

The soft button functions change to reflect the available actions for the Controller screen currently displayed. The action for each button appears above it (for example, View Queue or Add to Queue).

Playback

Play/Pause

Toggles between playing and pausing the current track. When browsing music sources, if you highlight a playable item (track, album, artist, playlist) and press Play, the highlighted music item is added to the end of the music queue, and begins to play immediately.

Next (short press)

Jumps to the start of the next track in the music queue.

Fast forward (long press)

Pressing and holding this button moves you forward through the current track. The music playback jumps to the new position when the button is released.

Previous (short press)

If you are more than 3 seconds into the track, this button jumps to the start of the current track; if you are less than 3 seconds into the track, this button jumps to the start of the previous track.

Rewind (long press)

Pressing and holding this button moves you backward through the current track. The music playback jumps to the new position when the button is released.