Originally Posted by ncpl
I personally prefer that zone use is a two step affair in Roon. Step 1 enable. Step 2 select for play queue mngt.
I tend to agree as this way it is a conscious decision as to which zone to use with which system and simplifies the protocol between the two systems.

In Sooloos, if Roon is using a zone, the zone drops out of the Sooloos list of available zones - at least sometimes. The behaviour is somewhat intermittent; some of the time Sooloos appears able to steal from an active Roon zone and vice-versa, other times a zone in active use via Roon is not accessible through Sooloos until such time as it is released by Roon.

By making a conscious decision, the systems will perform as the user wishes. If the protocol is made too complex, the likely outcome is that the system will perform as some wish but not how others wish, ie no-one will win.

John

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