Yup, that's correct, though the old library in my repo still works and is used by some folks, maintenance of SoCo is handled by a group of very talented and friendly developers under https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo
It looks like the author used SoCo for the Raspberry Pi project mentioned at the bottom of the article.
Also, the author used his own Sonos library written in ObjectiveC rather than Python: https://github.com/nathanborror/SonosKit