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Lossless is here. Included in Spotify Premium

Hey everyone! 👋

As some of you may have noticed earlier this week, Spotify lossless is now available on

compatible Sonos devices.

First, you need to enable lossless in the Spotify app. You can read how to do that here on Spotify's own page.

Once that is done, connect to a Sonos speaker and activate lossless by adjusting the audio quality, once you are connected to a speaker that will enable it, as seen in the GIF below.

You now have lossless on Sonos! Keep in mind, as shown in the GIF, you will have to skip to the next song before lossless is enabled.

Note: This setting is system wide. Once you have enabled it on one Sonos speaker, the rest will have lossless enabled as well.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

Mike H

Quick note since a few people asked. As long as your speakers are running the latests software version Spotify lossless is supported. If they are on S1, then it sadly isn't supported.

🎃 = M

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Smilja

@Saybadger, Spotify Connect Lossless will drain your mobile data rather quickly (approx. 1 GB per hour of usage).

No it won’t. Spotify Connect does not use mobile data for streaming on Sonos.

Formulated with great confidence.

It helps if you know how Spotify Connect works. You clearly don’t.

Feel free to enlighten me. 🙂

If you start a Spotify Connect session on Sonos, it will use the network associated with Sonos, not the mobile data.

You can turn your mobile off and the music will continue.

I just tested it. You're correct. That's probably why it's called "Sonos Direct Control", with third-party apps also functioning exclusively as remote controls rather than as media players. Interesting. Today I learned something new again. 🤗

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

Mr. T

I just tested it. You're correct. That's probably why it's called "Sonos Direct Control", with third-party apps also functioning exclusively as remote controls rather than as media players. Interesting. Today I learned something new again. 🤗

That’s the benefit Spotify Connect has over Airplay. It doesn’t rely on the mobile device, so no battery drain or mobile data usage.

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Kos

Enthusiast II

Finally got to stream 24-bit … using the song in Sonos’ gif🤪 Have not found any other yet.

Kos

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @Woody78

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

The following requirements are in place for streaming Spotify Lossless to Sonos:

Spotify Lossless is supported on S2 Sonos systems running iOS 80.30.35/Android 80.30.31 and Player (firmware) version 91.0-70011 or greater.
Spotify Lossless is not supported on the Sonos S1 Controller app, or on products that only support S1 (such as Connect, Connect:Amp, or Play:5).

From this, it seems that you would only be able to get Spotify Lossless on S1 speakers via Spotify Connect in the Spotify app, and only on speaker models that are capable of being on S2. So, a Play:1, a Play:3, a Sonos One, an Amp or a Playbar, as a few examples.

I presume that if you then group-in an unsupported player, the stream would switch to lossy.

I hope this helps.

This post is not accurate. Please see my later post below.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

Schlumpf

Virtuoso

@Corry P

Yes… that really helps! 😎😉

Ralf

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Kos

Enthusiast II

Spotify is for 99,9 percent only 16-bit. Sad. More here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/24bit-44-1khz-tracks/td-p/7147582

Kos

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @Woody78, @Schlumpf et al

My apologies. My previous post was inaccurate. Since making it, some of the documentation I was referencing has been made clearer.

The better-defined restrictions are as thus:

Spotify Lossless playback on Sonos requires the Sonos app for iOS or Android, updated to version 80.30.31 or greater. Sonos products must be updated to version 91.0-70011 or greater.
Spotify Lossless is not available on S1 systems.
Connect (Gen 1), Connect:Amp (Gen 1), Play:5 (Gen 1), and ZonePlayer products do not support the Sonos app (S2), and thus cannot support Spotify Lossless.

To be clear, Spotify Lossless cannot be played on S1 systems, from either the S1 Sonos app, or from the Spotify app.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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Woody78

Lyricist II

Thank you Corry for the answer.

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Kos

Enthusiast II

Hi @Woody78, @Schlumpf et al

My apologies. My previous post was inaccurate. Since making it, some of the documentation I was referencing has been made clearer.

The better-defined restrictions are as thus:

Spotify Lossless playback on Sonos requires the Sonos app for iOS or Android, updated to version 80.30.31 or greater. Sonos products must be updated to version 91.0-70011 or greater.
Spotify Lossless is not available on S1 systems.
Connect (Gen 1), Connect:Amp (Gen 1), Play:5 (Gen 1), and ZonePlayer products do not support the Sonos app (S2), and thus cannot support Spotify Lossless.

To be clear, Spotify Lossless cannot be played on S1 systems, from either the S1 Sonos app, or from the Spotify app.

I hope this helps.

Thanks, @Corry P. It’s still a bit unclear, when reading different posts, whether Sonos devices (apart from maybe the Era models?) can actually play 24-bit/44–48 kHz audio. Spotify Connect might show that it’s streaming in 24-bit, but Sonos might downconvert it to 16-bit during playback. Can you clarify?

Kos

Smilja

@Corry P, much appreciated. Could the support article be amended accordingly?

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/playing-spotify-lossless-audio-on-sonos

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

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