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You can also create custom radio stations based on your favorite songs, albums and artists and now play them all on your Sonos speakers! To play music from your own personal music collection on Sonos simply add your MP3s, even iTunes tracks, to the Music folder on your OneDrive. Having a Groove Music Pass gets you access to a premium ad-free listening experience with no interruptions and one of the largest music catalogs on the planet with over 40 million tracks*. Getting into music is faster than ever with easy-to-use menus and navigation controls that work well with both mouse/keyboard, and with familiar touch gestures on touch-screen devices.

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It’s hard to know how well it will work at this point, but what’s certain is that Sonos’ customers will let the company know if it doesn’t.Groove provides an improved experience for listening to and managing your music in Windows 10.

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Now it plans to roll out a bifurcated software system. In recent years it has struggled to work with giants like Amazon and Google-the latter of which Sonos has sued-in order to offer voice assistant features across its speakers, and it had to settle for making customers choose between the two assistants. Sonos, however, has built its brand on a kind of seamless and simple audio experience. Leblond is right about one thing: In the still relatively new market for internet-connected home devices, it’s hard to think of many products that have been fully operational for 10 to 15 years. But it’s always been a part of reality, and I think we’ve always understood, that at some point we’re going to have to deal with the fact that you can’t just keep pushing more stuff onto these constrained products.” He added that Sonos has been working on a software solution to this dilemma for about a year now. “I will stand here and firmly believe that we’ve done more to do this than just about anyone else out there, in terms of supporting our existing older products for as long as possible. Leblond said the company has “jumped through hoops” to keep some of Sonos’ legacy speakers in rotation for a dozen years. You will not be able to plunk a newly released Sonos product onto an S1 network. So you’ll either have to ditch your legacy Sonos speakers and run all your newer ones on S2, or, again, have two disparate Sonos networks going in your home. Once Sonos introduces new speakers later this year (and for argument’s sake let’s give Sonos the benefit of the doubt, even though Covid-19 is disrupting global supply chains), those new speakers will be required to run on the S2 software. Or third, you could keep using the Play:5, only you’ll have to decide if you want to run two disparate systems and apps-one for that speaker, one for your newer Sonos One-or keep every speaker running on the less modern Sonos S1 OS and Sonos S1 app. Second, you could “trade in” that Play:5, get 30 percent off of a newer Sonos product, and then do whatever you want with the old speaker-discard it, hand it off to a friend, or store it in your personal speaker museum.

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First, you can remove the Play:5 from your Sonos setup, upgrade the Sonos One speaker to the S2 OS and new Sonos app, and get all of the latest features on your speaker. So if you have a new version of the Sonos One speaker (2019), but you also happen to have an original Sonos Play: 5 (2009), you have a few options, none of which are ideal.

It’s when you mix old and new products that things get confusing. You can still cluster legacy speakers together for multiroom audio.

Sonos has tried to stress that the older products are still going to be supported, but it has made the distinction that they’re not going to get new software updates and therefore won’t get most new features, with the exception of bug fixes and security patches.

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