Holding the button down again returned my music to the Roam. And because WiFi ignores plaster and lath, it activated the sound bar in the next room instead of the Ones I was staring at. It turns out that a wall prevented me from seeing that the Beam was actually the closest speaker. While standing within 6 feet of the Sonos Ones in my kitchen, I pushed the button and “ Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?” started playing on the Sonos Beam sound bar in my living room. Keep in mind that the system’s idea of the nearest speaker may be different from yours.
Moments later, the Roam turns off and your music pops up on the nearest Sonos speaker in your system. If you start a song playing on the Roam and press the Play/Pause button on the end of the speaker, you’ll hear (assuming the music volume is low enough) a boop tone, followed by a brief sound effect reminiscent of a “Star Trek” transporter.
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With the Roam at full charge, I evaluated the Sound Swap function, which allows the Roam to “hand off” the music it’s playing to nearby Sonos WiFi speakers, and found it to be quite fun. Sonos also has a $49 dedicated wireless charger for the Roam, which we didn’t try. Since my initial evaluation, Sonos has updated its website to make the Roam’s charging requirements clear to consumers. I bought a 12-watt Apple iPad charger (a 10-watt charger is the minimum requirement), and the Roam was soon alive again. It turns out the 5-watt charger lacked the juice to charge the Roam, so the speaker simply ran out of power. Absent any instructions on the printed quick start guide, I grabbed an Apple phone charger I had handy and plugged the Roam in. Like the latest flagship smartphones from Apple and Samsung, the Roam ships with a charging cable but no brick. The device was nowhere to be found on my Sonos mobile app, and pushing all the buttons on the device elicited no response.Ī call to Sonos got to the bottom of the problem. However, the next day, when I tried to listen to the Roam again, it was as though the speaker had amnesia. The Sonos app also offers Sonos Radio, so I listened to an entertaining deep dive into the roots of reggae featuring Pat Kelly’s version of John Denver’s country hit “Sunshine on My Shoulders.”
Because this was back on opening day, I picked a Baseball’s Greatest Hits playlist with everything from Barbara Manning’s “ Dock Ellis” (about the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who said he threw a no-hitter on LSD) to Steve Goodman’s “ A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request.” With that one click, I was ready to start playing music from the Sonos app, where I could choose from a selection of streaming services, including my favorites, Tidal and Spotify. The Sonos app already on my iPhone asked me if I wanted to add the new speaker to the Sonos system in my home, which consists of a stereo pair of Sonos One smart speakers in my kitchen and a Sonos Beam smart sound bar in the adjacent living room.
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