Spotify Lossless coming to Sonos next month!

Do we expect that once Sonos does it’s updates, with Spotify Connect app we will be able to start a lossless stream from the SPOTIFY app without having to go through the Sonos app?  For me, that would be a game changer.  You can’t do that with any other services, and the music exploration in the Sonos app is non-existent.

Cautiously optimistic….

 WiiM and Bluesound already have Spotify lossless active and users are saying Connect is lossless. So we know it’s possible 😎
 

I’m cautiously optimistic that Sonos will implement this as well across all s2 devices. 🤞

For some reason it’s greyed out. Is it avalible with the play:1?

I’d imagine ​@craigski ‘s post above is still applicable, either way. 

That being said, I’ve no idea if the chipset that was built in to the PLAY:1 has enough power to interpret the signal. 

Play:1 does not support Apple Music Lossless:

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/services/apple-music

Can all Sonos products stream lossless audio from Apple Music?

Most Sonos products can stream lossless audio from Apple Music. However, some older products don’t support the required streaming protocol (HLSv7) and will stream audio at a lower quality. The following Sonos products won’t stream lossless audio from Apple Music:

• Connect (Gen 1)
• Connect (Gen 2)
• Connect:Amp
• Play:1
• Play:3
• Play:5 (Gen 1)
• Playbar
• Playbase
• Sub (Gen 1)
• Sub (Gen 2)

My educated guess is that the above product list will also be true for Spotify Lossless.

It also states on Spotify website that they are rolling out gradually to different devices, and different geographic regions in a controlled manner:

HLSv7 is not the same as FLAC. My Play:3 can play FLAC files from my local library just fine.

Also, if you check services like Tidal, Amazon Music and Qobuz on this page, the only lossless service that has issues with older Sonos speakers is Apple Music:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services

My guess is that Spotify lossless will work without issue.

From what I read here it has something to do wih the DRM Apple uses for lossless streams:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1l0ze92/how_does_the_play1_know_it_cannot_play_apple/

Would it be possible to group a Sonos Amp and Play3 with lossless music playing on the Sonos Amp and very high quality on the Play3?

When streaming music, the overall stream quality is based on the least capable speaker in the group. I haven’t seen any official confirmation of which Sonos devices will support Spotify lossless. The screenshot above implies a Play:1 won’t play lossless and I would consider a Play:3 as similar to a Play:1 in terms of capability. The Spotify press release also implied lossless was coming to Sonos next month, so that may be why it’s currently greyed out, but will potentially change in the future.

Looking forward to Spotify lossless.  Will see if there’s a noticeable difference in quality of sound.  I have no qualms with the Spotify sound quality getting through my setup.  

Nope… I found out today after finally getting the lossless option in Spotify. Hopefully Sonos will update the app and players in (early!) October🙏

Spotify message (Danish) says someting like ‘unit (Sonos Port) not compatible with lossless’.