![]() The app you are now using will be renamed the Sonos S1 Controller, and it will continue working with your existing products, music services, and voice services. If you have products that are incompatible with S2 and would like to keep your system as is, you can. This short list of S1 vs S2 FAQ is based on the official information from Sonos available here. If it is possible to downgrade to S1, then it would be more acceptable to have an S2 OS that does not support legacy speakers. I think a lot of people will be unhappy about this. It then forces using two apps and makes keeping the current system you have set up not working anymore as a S1 setup. There is no reason why this should not be made reversible. Worst of all, is that if you upgrade compatible speakers to S2 (even by mistake), there is no way to reverse this! That is not acceptable in my view. Even if that requires more work for Sonos to make it work, at least for sharing the audio and grouping all speakers in a home, even if some will not have the latest features, they still should be able to play music. And my worry is that the S1 app may eventually be removed from Apple Store and/or no longer be available.Ī speaker is not a laptop, it needs to be compatible with future OS upgrades. So then, there would be 3 apps needed, S1, S2, and S3. This I think means that in some years, there could be an “S3” OS that makes Play 5: Gen2, Playbar and more speakers becoming “legacy” and no longer work to upgrade to S3 and would require using a separate S2 app. Making the OS requiring so much memory and processing power that older speakers no longer work, I think is not customer friendly. I don’t mind so much not having new features in legacy speakers, but at least allow using a single app and seeing all the speakers and grouping them, for audio. Just like a USB hard drive that is > 15 years old still works in Windows 10. My preference would have been to allow controlling all speakers with a single app, even if that means the OS needs to be adapted to work with all the speakers. In principle, I do not agree with not supporting older products like Sonos Play:5 Gen 1 in S2. Why I don’t agree with the S2 OS not being compatible with legacy speakers This post will be updated when any new information and changes is available regarding Sonos S2 compatible products. * Sonos S2 required Sonos Products not S2 compatible ![]() If you own any of these products, you can according to Sonos continue to use your system as you do today (at least for now). Some of the older Sonos products (previously referred to as “legacy” products) will not support the advances of S2 due to memory and processing power. ![]() ![]() If all of your products are compatible, you can download the app and get started when it’s available in June 2020. Most of Sonos products are compatible with S2 (not the oldest ones like Play:5 Gen 1). In addition to new features, usability updates, and more personalization moving forward, Sonos S2 enables higher resolution audio technologies (if this is the case for Spotify is not clear) for music and home theater. Sonos S2 is a new app and operating system (OS) that powers the next generation of products and experiences. ![]() I have added some notes and made a contact sheet of Sonos products not compatible with S2. The information is mainly based on the official Sonos information regarding the Sonos S2 compatible products found here. This post explains which Sonos products are S2 compatible, which are not, and which require S2. ![]()
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