The embodiment of the invention discloses a sound box management method and a user terminal. The method comprises the following steps: when the user terminal detects that a data connection between a preset master sound box in a sound box combination and the user terminal is broken, sending a test instruction to slave sound boxes in the sound box combination; specific to the slave sound boxes, acquiring time intervals from a sending moment of the test instruction to receiving moments of test instruction response messages returned by the slave sound boxes; acquiring a slave sound box having a shortest time interval, and setting the slave sound box having the shortest time interval as a target master sound box; and establishing a connection relationship with the target master sound box. In the embodiment of the invention, the terminal can re-determine a new target master sound box when the data connection between the preset master sound box and the user terminal is broken, so that the success rate of normal playing of data resources by the sound box combination can be increased.