Multi Zone Question

[Rusyn]

Does WiiM have the ability to play different music on different devices at the same time?

Led Zeppelin on one WiiM and Steely Dan on another. If so is there a limit to the number of devices and sources?

I am trying to move away from Sonos in certain applications for my clients.

 

[Burnside]

Each device is independent (unless explicitly grouped) and signed in to their own or the same streaming source. The only constraints will be down to account based restrictions e.g. if I had two WiiM devices associated with the same Amazon Music account, only one device (or group) could be playing tracks from that unless I had the multiple user Amazon Music family account.

I believe Sonos had some workaround whereby a single Spotify account could allow multiple different streams, but that isn't supported on Wiim - if you wanted to cast to more than one WiiM device to play different tracks at the same time as another then you'd need more than one Spotify account.

 

[d6jg]

Does WiiM have the ability to play different music on different devices at the same time?

Led Zeppelin on one WiiM and Steely Dan on another. If so is there a limit to the number of devices and sources?

I am trying to move away from Sonos in certain applications for my clients.

Yes they do

 

[Rusyn]

Burnside,

Interesting. Does this also apply to multiple different streams on Pandora and other streaming services?

Thanks,
Rusyn

 

[Burnside]

Burnside,

Interesting. Does this also apply to multiple different streams on Pandora and other streaming services?

Thanks,
Rusyn

I’m only really au fait with Amazon Music and Spotify, and UK based services.

Even for Spotify, if you were playing that on your pc and then tried to play using the same account on your phone, I suspect you couldn’t play two different streams - I don’t know how Sonos supposedly got round that.

Re the other services, try the same thing - start something playing on your PC using a particular streaming service account, then try starting something else on your phone with that same account. If it plays ok on your phone and the PC stream carries on regardless, then I’d say multiple WiiM devices would behave the same. Similarly, if the pc and phone can’t run different streams at the same time, neither will WiiM devices.

Note that grouped devices tend to behave as if they were one device - there’s seldom a restriction on playing the same stream to multiple linked devices at the same time as it’s just the one stream.

 

[Rusyn]

Burnside,

Thanks for clearing that up!