Multiroom systems allow you to listen to music across rooms, in all rooms with a network of speakers. In this blog post, we briefly show you how multiroom systems work and how to create your perfect playlist.
Multiroom systems are more popular than ever. This is also due to music streaming services, audio-on-demand and internet radio, which are also becoming increasingly popular. With multiroom systems, you activate and control the corresponding speakers via an app and then have music wherever you want. All variations are possible: the same playlist for all rooms or individual music lists for different rooms. This means current hits can play in the children's room, relaxing music in the bathroom, and soft rock in the bedroom in the evening. Every room in your house is individually played. Even in your garden, you can use multiroom systems - with a sufficient Wi-Fi connection.
Multiroom Systems Require Wi-Fi in All Rooms
The basic prerequisite for multiroom systems is stable Wi-Fi in the respective rooms, as the individual speakers are connected via Wi-Fi. The speakers are then operated and controlled via an app on a smartphone, via an app on a tablet - or even smartly via voice control and voice assistant (e.g. Alexa). The speakers connect directly to streaming services and pull songs directly from the internet. If new speakers and boxes are added to the network at a later date, the configuration of the existing devices is simply copied. Here, every multiroom system is very easy for users to expand.
Communication via Wi-Fi offers a few decisive advantages over Bluetooth. This is partly due to the better quality of music when streaming, and partly because Wi-Fi provides a better range. With Bluetooth, you would always have to be within direct range of a speaker to operate it via an app on your smartphone. And the individual speakers also shouldn't be too far apart. Some manufacturers – Sonos, for example – therefore refrained from using Bluetooth as a communication option for a long time. Via Wi-Fi, the sound is simply better.
In addition to Sonos, manufacturers and systems from Teufel (Raumfeld), Google (Google Home), Amazon (Echo), Denon, JBL and Bose are also good starting points for multiroom systems, multiroom speakers, boxes and other components and devices. (This list is only a brief overview, without claiming to be exhaustive.)
Creating the Perfect Playlist for Multiroom Systems
Whether Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play Music or TuneIn: The providers of internet radio and streaming services are extremely numerous. So is the selection of songs and genres you can find and stream here. But as good and varied as these services may be, no stream is as good as a compilation of your very personal favorites. With multiroom systems, you should therefore definitely make sure that you can also play "personal playlists", i.e. local sources, in addition to streaming services. This is usually the case, and you have a free choice of music sources with almost every multiroom system.
Is the perfect playlist for your smart home and your multiroom system a self-burned CD, or a compilation of audio CDs, downloaded music videos, and audio files that you have on your PC in different formats? Then we recommend Freetunes, a free tool with which you can easily rip audio CDs and audio DVDs and convert music videos (e.g. from YouTube) into pure music files. With just a few clicks, you can convert everything into an mp3 – or also into the formats AAC, OGG, WMA or WAV. And you can play this with almost any player. You can find Freetunes on our website, where we offer several full versions for free download.
We hope you have fun creating your top playlists – for every room and for every occasion.
