What is the latest version of Sonos 1 Controller for Mac, and what are the minimum system requirements?

Hi Ken,

I didn't think that you were a SONOS employee  I appreciate your suggestions. I will contact SONOS directly by following the link you Kindly sent. 

PS - never having had any trouble before I have had no need to get on this forum so I am rather naive about how this all works. 

I made the assumption, when you asked him to send you a file. I’m of the opinion that using a file sent to you by a random person on the internet (sorry, Ken) is a bad idea. ;)

You are probably right but I judged Ken to be an honest bloke. I mean why would someone with knowledge of the system but also with bad intentions hang around on the Sonos Community website? Anyway, in principle I agree with you.

I respect Ken a great deal, but have never met him ;) I’d trust him to point at an official location for me to download a file, but not to send me one. 

Here I am… (just so you’ll recognise me when we meet). ha ha

This is a known problem.

I am running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on an older Mac, that has my music library.

Having finally escalated the problem at Sonos, I received the following replies:

”Thank you for the information provided regarding your issue. Actually, there is an ongoing issue with the Sonos S1 application on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, we are aware of it and looking into a future resolution.”  “(T)he Sonos S2 application works, the issue is related just to the S1 Application.”

I can in fact install the S2 Controller on my Mac, with no issues, but I don’t want a split system, so I am waiting on a “future resolution”.

I am still running Sonos S1 Controller for Mac version 11.5 on my Mac, so my system can access my music library.  All of our iPhones and iPads are now running the latest Sonos S1 app version 11.6.2 and they work fine.

If you are currently running version 11.5 on your Mac, DO NOT uninstall it, as it is the last functioning version available. If you have uninstalled it, the only remedy is for you to try and restore S1 version 11.5 on your Mac, if you are able, through a backup (which I did) or otherwise.

Is it confirmed S1 requires 10.14? Seems incredibly lme for an app that’s only job is to connect to some music services and send some network comnmands to peripheral to require such high OS. I have a perfectly working Minima with 10.13 has highest possible macOS. This machine can run all sorts of advanced applications still, but not Sonos?

It still states 10.11 as macOS requirement but my update failed.

Did you try @buzz’s suggestion of uninstalling the controller App and then installing the latest version and connecting it back to the existing Sonos System? That usually resolves installation issues. The S1 Controller requirements are shown here FYI:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/sonos-app-requirements

If an iOS App uses certain features and hasn’t updated to use the current API version, the App will be dropped from the App Store. This leaves the App developer with two unpleasant options, stop offering the latest new features, or force some legacy users to upgrade their hardware. In general, the legacy user base is shrinking and does not generated much, if any, cash. New users, seeking the latest features, generate the cash.

@buzz and @Ken_Griffiths:

Sorry, I don’t get it. I’m talking about macOS not iOS and the Sonos Controller is not shown in AppStore on this computer. I had an old controller version from a previous installation that updated itself but failed. The only solution for me would be if there was a downloadable version that runs on macOS 10.13.6 but as far as I can see there isn’t although my computer and OS meet the system requirements.

It’s 2023, but this feels like 2003.