Sonos ending support for some legacy products in May 2020

[RTaylor3rd (Rudy Taylor)]

isn’t that spending $300 to run a $300 obsolete product?

[Jim_F]

I think it’s closer to $100 to keep from buying a bunch of new equipment. The cost of the old equipment does’t matter.

[garym]

isn’t that spending $300 to run a $300 obsolete product?

This is not an LMS forum and don’t want to sidetrack things here, but quick answer is that there has been lots of improvements to LMS over time. It is essentially an open source project now and the PiCorePlayer work is quite impressive. So I would respectively disagree that it is obsolete.

https://www.picoreplayer.org/

[garym]

Huh!!?? I am learning stuff every day on this forum. Had no idea about any of this stuff. Good thing my SONOS stuff is going to work a while so I can figure it all out. That sounds like it has promise. So, I can multi-room sync, up to 6 stations? And it works? Do I need one of those Squeezebox touches? Thanks for the heads up. I am a newb to all this stuff other than SONOS.

Oh, and for this to fly in my house, my wife needs to be able to run it from her phone (newer iPhone, 8 I believe). Does that work?

Yes, many end points can be synced and you can control by phone app. But don’t rush into anything. You’ll have lots of different options if your sonos eventually don’t meet your needs. Including Roon!

[Stephen_Thompson]

Well, my 14 day trial is up tomorrow, so I cancelled today so as not to get charged yet. Very interested, but want some more time to figure out what end points I am using and what subscription will be the best for me.

[Nick_Triano]

I just split off my Sonos Connect (which I use solely as a Roon endpoint and feed the digital out to my DAC) from my S2 Sonos speakers, and everything is just fine.