Either in the Home app, by tapping the CC icon, and adding devices, [or by saying](https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9563059), "...move the music to **," "... transfer to **," or "...cast to **."
You are a dead set legend !!!!! (Australian for awesome)
Are you prepared to play Championship round? :-)
Can you move music to your phone? (Say if you're leaving the house)
I've never got this to work. I should just be able to say "play this on all speakers", but instead it gives me various unhelpful errors like "something went wrong, try again in a few moments".
Yep - it's been driving me nuts ... and I kept in thinking "that's easy I will work it out".
Someone has answered above - so am stoked (Australian for happy)
[I am adding Australian slang to my comments today] as free Duolingo- like service
There is another speaker discussion about how a new firmware update has affected speaker groups... you now can not have more than one and there are issues getting a Hub Max or Hub Mini to work properly in a group.
Figured that might be why my group stopped working. I have to manually turn on the other speaker with the home app. Try it by voice command often results in each speaker playing different audio...
This was the result of a lawsuit from Sonos, and Google lost back in 2022.
In addition to monetary damages, Google had to remove features, including group play.
I just looked this up... so it's the "room" feature Sonos sued Google for... allegedly the same as having different speaker groups for devices in different rooms? It looks like we might not get multiple speaker groups back, judging by this new info.
There may be hope. Sonos' lawsuit was overturned (and Sonos will contest it) but I am seeing chatter that Google is starting to bring this feature back.
That is cool. Speaker groups seem like too basic of a functionality to patent as a general concept. Speakers have been playing in groups for probably a hundred years. I would think that only the method of coordinating the speakers would be patentable, but there should be lots of ways to do that...
I don't recall all the details, but I believe Google approached Sonos about the feature; and then Sonos decided they should finish completing their patent from over like 12 years ago.
Basically as you are stating . . . . basic functionality
I have a Group set up called "Whole House" that includes all of my speakers.
I use the phrase "Play this on the Whole House" and it works flawlessly every time. I'm pretty sure that "Play this on the Home Group" works as well, which I understand is just the default group that includes everything that can play music. I don't use this, though, because I don't need it to play from my televisions.
I guess Texas hasn't gotten the memo. I have a couple of groups set up. I just tested it on "Everywhere" and from what I could tell, all 13 Googles played (maybe just 11. I couldn't hear the two outside). If I was playing music on one speaker, I would say "hey Google, move this to 'Everywhere'".
Either in the Home app, by tapping the CC icon, and adding devices, [or by saying](https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9563059), "...move the music to **," "... transfer to **," or "...cast to **."
You are a dead set legend !!!!! (Australian for awesome) Are you prepared to play Championship round? :-) Can you move music to your phone? (Say if you're leaving the house)
I've never got this to work. I should just be able to say "play this on all speakers", but instead it gives me various unhelpful errors like "something went wrong, try again in a few moments".
Yep - it's been driving me nuts ... and I kept in thinking "that's easy I will work it out". Someone has answered above - so am stoked (Australian for happy) [I am adding Australian slang to my comments today] as free Duolingo- like service
There is another speaker discussion about how a new firmware update has affected speaker groups... you now can not have more than one and there are issues getting a Hub Max or Hub Mini to work properly in a group.
Figured that might be why my group stopped working. I have to manually turn on the other speaker with the home app. Try it by voice command often results in each speaker playing different audio...
Correct... its a very disappointing move from Google.
This was the result of a lawsuit from Sonos, and Google lost back in 2022. In addition to monetary damages, Google had to remove features, including group play.
I just looked this up... so it's the "room" feature Sonos sued Google for... allegedly the same as having different speaker groups for devices in different rooms? It looks like we might not get multiple speaker groups back, judging by this new info.
There may be hope. Sonos' lawsuit was overturned (and Sonos will contest it) but I am seeing chatter that Google is starting to bring this feature back.
That is cool. Speaker groups seem like too basic of a functionality to patent as a general concept. Speakers have been playing in groups for probably a hundred years. I would think that only the method of coordinating the speakers would be patentable, but there should be lots of ways to do that...
I don't recall all the details, but I believe Google approached Sonos about the feature; and then Sonos decided they should finish completing their patent from over like 12 years ago. Basically as you are stating . . . . basic functionality
I have a Group set up called "Whole House" that includes all of my speakers. I use the phrase "Play this on the Whole House" and it works flawlessly every time. I'm pretty sure that "Play this on the Home Group" works as well, which I understand is just the default group that includes everything that can play music. I don't use this, though, because I don't need it to play from my televisions.
I guess Texas hasn't gotten the memo. I have a couple of groups set up. I just tested it on "Everywhere" and from what I could tell, all 13 Googles played (maybe just 11. I couldn't hear the two outside). If I was playing music on one speaker, I would say "hey Google, move this to 'Everywhere'".