# Choose which devices play

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/choose-which-devices-play/86825>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/choose-which-devices-play/86825 "2020-03-28T13:27:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![aj123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@aj123](https://forums.balena.io/u/aj123)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/choose-which-devices-play/86825/1 "2020-03-28T13:27:58Z")

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I have a fleet of balenaSound devices and when I play music it plays music on all of them (multi-room). But I was wondering: is there a way to choose which devices in the fleet play music, like for instance: the Sonos app where you can group specific devices. So is there an app? Thanks for any help given! 🙂

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**Author:** ![anujdeshpande](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/anujdeshpande/32/3155_2.png) [@anujdeshpande](https://forums.balena.io/u/anujdeshpande)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/choose-which-devices-play/86825/2 "2020-03-30T09:08:02Z")

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Hi

We don’t have a phone app for this as such, though I’ll pass on the feedback to the team!

What you can do is disable multiroom on a device by setting a variable - see instructions [here](https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound#multi-room). You can do this using the balena-cli as well as the dashboard. See how to do it using the CLI [here](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/balena-cli/#envs).

If you can put this in a script, and call this script whenever you want to disable certain devices, I think you will get the desired effect. This is not exactly the groups functionality, but it gets pretty close to what you describe 🙂

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**Author:** ![anujdeshpande](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/anujdeshpande/32/3155_2.png) [@anujdeshpande](https://forums.balena.io/u/anujdeshpande)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/choose-which-devices-play/86825/4 "2020-03-30T12:11:42Z")

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Also, please feel free to create a feature request on GitHub [here](https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/issues)