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Blazer5913

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Quick question that seems dumb to be asking - but I can't seem to figure this out definitively one way or the other. I just bought my first Sonos product... started small with the portable Roam but already loving this thing and the "ecosystem" around Sonos. I downloaded the Sonos app for my iMac and I also already had the Spotify app. I have my iMac upstairs and my Roam in my kitchen downstairs. I was trying to set playback of Spotify music to both the iMac as well as the Sonos Roam, simultaneously, the create a pseudo-whole home audio system until I get more Sonos devices for upstairs and throughout the rest of the house. But until then - is this not possible with the iMac and Sonos Roam? When I use the Spotify Mac app and go to the Spotify Connect tab for the Roam, it transfer the music 100% to that speaker. When I then click Spotify Connect to this computer, it goes back to my iMac and nothing from the Roam. I'm trying to get them simultaneously. And when I use the Sonos app on my iMac, this is exclusively through the Sonos Roam, as expected.

This doesn't seem that complicated to me, but I can't figure it out and need an answer! Thanks in advance.
 
As far as I know you can not multi-stream Spotify through the Spotify App or Airplay 2.
You need to already have a multi-room system (like multiple Sonos speakers e.g) that you could pair together (e.g through an app, like Sonos app) and then you can choose the new group in Spotify application.
 
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