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Sonos is today glorification the future of its multiroom home audio strategy, which revolves effectually a new app and operating template named Sonos S2 that will run on plenteous customary Sonos products and be the foundation for all of the company's future devices. Sonos S2 will be released in June and power "the abutting generation" of Sonos products and experiences. However it conjointly represents the mooch in the tarmac where older, legacy housewares will be leftward defaultant and stop securing new features.

Switching to a new OS will spin-off in expanded capabilities, equal to Sonos. Sonos S2 will indulge for higher-resolution audio, whereas, seize now, the company's speakers are penned to CD-quality lossless audio. The revamped software underpinnings could let Sonos go hi-fi in the aforementioned way as Amazon's Repeat Studio. It could conjointly finally spin-off in Sonos fosterage Dolby Atmos for home vaudeville unadulterated in the abutting Playbar, Playbase, or Beam.

Sonos S2 will just be named "Sonos," and the customary app will be renamed "Sonos S1 Controller"

Sonos S2 will conjointly indulge for usefulness enhancements (there will be improved room groups functionality in June) and "more consanguineous and personal experiences," equal to the company. There aren't plenteous details on the latter just yet, however in past conversations with Sonos employees, they've hinted at a future in which your Sonos speakers might automatically alpha playing a convinced playlist or podcast back you complanate home (or wake up in the morning) based on your unexcessive patterns.

Sonos will continue to union Alexa and Google Comic with S2, however because how struggling its relationship with Cheesecake and Google has become, you've got to effigy that the convergence is charting out its own voice comic future, and S2 could somewhen comedy into that.

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A examination of the Sonos S2 app. It's not all that motley from the customary Sonos mobile app.

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This forward-looking plan requires making a indolence from legacy Sonos products. The convergence has said that these devices will no longer receive new gloss as of May since they lack the all-important processing power, though they'll still get bug fixes and security patches. "We will assignment with our partners to reunite your music and voice casework working for as long as we can," Sonos common today. The convergence posted this FAQ on the transition.

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Which Sonos products are examined "legacy" and obtaining leftward behind?

Legacy products include the original Sonos Play:5, Area Players, and Connect / Connect:Amp devices manufactured between 2011 and 2015. All other products are examined modern, will be upgraded to Sonos S2, and will continue to get software updates postliminary May.

Sonos will requite owners of legacy devices a 30 percent disbelieve on a newer product through its "trade-up" program, which doesn't categorically require handing over your old device. And you no longer okay to permanently brick it, either.

But you'll personally be stalwart to use those legacy products with the old Sonos app once Sonos S2 is released. Back that happens, there will be two Sonos apps on both Android and iOS: the customary app will be renamed as Sonos S1 Controller. (To consumers, the newer S2 app will unaffectedly be named "Sonos.") Legacy products will reside on S1, and modern Sonos ornamental will make the upholding to S2.

If you personally own recent Sonos speakers, there's reservedly nothing to wound about: you can just migrate to Sonos S2 and spume anyway the old app. However where things get a bit tricky is back you okay both legacy and modern Sonos products in your system. For that scenario, Sonos is giving marketplace a few options to pick between:

1) Remove the S1-only products from your system. With personally S2 uniform products remaining, you'll be ready to download the new Sonos app in June.

2) Trade up S1-only products to their S2 uniform equivalents. For marketplace who segregate this option, we continue to offer a 30 percent disbelieve as part of our Trade Up program.

3) Run your existing template on the S1 app. You'll still get bug fixes and security patches, and we will assignment with our partners to reunite your music and voice casework working for as long as we can...

4) Unsubstantial your template into two. We'll publish detailed instructions for how to do this nearer the time. Unfortunately, it won't be practicable to group an S1 template with an S2 system.

Picking ordinal three means that your modern Sonos devices will no longer receive new gloss -- surfaced if they're fully catechized of acknowledging them -- since the oldest device in your template determines what software runs exceeding the excelling thing.

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The customary Sonos app (left) and usable Sonos S2 app (right).

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To me, this seems like a good compromise. In a positive world, Sonos could reunite old and new products working together harmoniously, however it's not happening. If you've got article like an original Play:5 or first Sonos Connect that's still working great, no one's banishment you to upholding or trade it in. You might just okay to get creative anyway deciding the five-star complanate for splitting your old and modern Sonos systems divorced in your home.

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Sonos says S2 will ship on all new products it releases postliminary May. The company's preponderant recent product launches were the carriageable Sonos Move, Sonos One SL speaker (without born microphones), and the Sonos Port. All three were commence inadvertently in September.