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wjadada
Contributor I
August 8, 2017

Sonos not showing either Album Artist or Genre for Plex library. Also no alphabetical listing on right of scroll

Because I have over 65,000 files in my iTunes library, I am using the beta version of Plex for Sonos to gain access to that library via Sonos. Problem: I cannot see either "Album Artist" or "Genre" when I look at the library in the Mac desktop or iOS apps. Also, given the size of my library, I like to be able to see the letters of the alphabet on the right side of a scroll, so that I can jump to that letter, rather than having to scroll through tens of thousands of items. Anyone know how to fix this? Thank you for your attention.
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      Nico R
      Nico R
      Retired Sonos Staff
      September 14, 2017
      Hello wjadada, welcome to the forums and we regret the delayed response. It sounds like a change to the controller interface software is in order. We'll send your suggestion over to our development team so they'll consider adding the scrolling functionality on a future version of the software. Thanks for the suggestion.
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      Windefalk
      Lyricist I
      August 16, 2018
      Because I have over 65,000 files in my iTunes library, I am using the beta version of Plex for Sonos to gain access to that library via Sonos. Problem: I cannot see either "Album Artist" or "Genre" when I look at the library in the Mac desktop or iOS apps. Also, given the size of my library, I like to be able to see the letters of the alphabet on the right side of a scroll, so that I can jump to that letter, rather than having to scroll through tens of thousands of items. Anyone know how to fix this? Thank you for your attention.

      +1 for this
      Marho
      Lyricist I
      April 25, 2019
      +1 I would love to be able to browse by genre
      controlav
      controlav
      Lead Maestro
      April 26, 2019
      You need to ask Plex for these features: all of them are dependent on their SMAPI service supporting it, including the alpha-jump feature. Nico R doesn't seem to know that this feature already exists, though is not implemented on many music services (though it is on Library thankfully).
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      Marho
      Lyricist I
      April 26, 2019
      Thank you @contolav, I already pushed on that front as well - whatever helps 🙂

      I'm still surprised that I still get more out of my 15-year-old Logitech Media (Squeezebox) System, than out of Sonos today...
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