Sonos, Inc.

Michael Sheldon

Ted M Lin

Dayn Wilberding

Ron Kuper

Jodi Vautrin

Youjin Nam

Tadeo T Toulis

Richard Bannon

Jonathan Herbst

Kirsten Lewis

Maria-Jose Ramos

Jake Harwood

Patrick Devine

Nicholas A J Millington

Jonathan Cole Harris

Daniel John Jones

Henry Sia

Jeffrey M Peters

Ryan Kitson

Won So

Brandon Wright

Ncholas A J Millington

Cole Harris

An example first playback device is configured to: while the first playback device is in a synchrony group with a second playback device, play back a first version of audio content in synchrony with the second playback device; in response to identifying that a quality of a connection between the second playback device and a network device is below a threshold criterion, cause the second playback device to play back a second version of the audio content in synchrony with the first version of the audio content playing back by the first playback device; and in response to detecting a change in the quality of the connection between the second playback device and the network device such that the quality of the connection meets the threshold criterion, cause the second playback device to play back the first version of the audio content in synchrony with the first playback device.

Managing content quality and related characteristics of a media playback system

Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as 'smart' headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system. Exemplary techniques facilitate continuity of playback when transitioning between locations (e.g., from at home to on-the-go or vice versa) or between listening paradigms (e.g., personal or out-loud playback of audio content). An example implementation includes detecting a swap trigger, determining the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s), and performing a playback session swap between the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s).

Playback transitions

Detecting the nearest playback device

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