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S1 vs S2 - latest situation

  • December 3, 2025
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I’ve got about 10 rooms of Sonos.  Have held off updating to S2 for a couple of years due to all the negative feedback on S2 and there being no compelling reason to upgrade.

Spotify Lossless finally provides something that makes me want to do the upgrade.

But I can’t seem to find anything that gives me the detail as to the current functionality differences between the 2 apps.  I see lots of historic stuff about not being able to search local libraries, edit the queue etc, as well as problems like lagging volume changes and speakers dropping out.

Is there a good comparative list of functionality differences that anyone could point me too, and/or an up to date thread on usability?

Thanks

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el rubio
  • December 3, 2025

you may need to consult these support pages about the S1 & S2 App versions


Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • December 3, 2025

S2 still has frustrating issues. The forum search is little help but using a search engine with the "site:" option and restricting the date of the results to 30 or 60 days will let you see recent / current S2 issues.


106rallye
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  • December 4, 2025

S2 has issues for some people using older devices (lag when changing volume), people using the queu (the system loses the queu when changing sources, I’m not sure you can make a playlist out of a queu yet), people relying on SMBv1 for their library and for people that do not adhere to the Sonos way of using tags for compilation albums (might need to redo some tags).

This is all as far as I can tell at the moment.