Adding year of release to the SONOS app?

As I understand it the respective music service is responsible for what is showing in the Sonos app. What service is it that you’d want this from?

I concur with ​@106rallye, the individual services are in charge of how their content is displayed in the Sonos app.

Is the functionality built in to SMAPI?

It’s listed as part of a mediaCollection object, which can be an album, among other media types.  However, the description seems to indicate it is only used for podcasts.

https://docs.sonos.com/docs/smapi-object-types

 How about for well tagged local music?

Not there for local libraries, either for display or sorting.

​@106rallye ​@Manaf3ue 

In this case it is not correct, because when I use the YouSee app directly on phones, then the information about the release year is there.

But it may be that the SONOS app does not support/retrieve the information from a Danish provider's app.

​@Stephan-H_Dk 

Most streamers use a different source/portal/server to feed the Sonos stream, both as the SMAPI needs to be there, and many track ‘source of streams’ in that manner, so what shows up on their own application on your device may not be the same data sent to Sonos. 

Indeed, I have only seen this data on podcasts, from the BBC, and Sonos do show it.

Of course if it was more widely provided/displayed, customers would immediately ask for the ability to sort the results, which is a challenge for larger lists.

Hi ​@Stephan-H_Dk 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

Whilst I’m sure this could be nice, I’d rather they spent their time fixing the basic local indexing first… 😉

Feature requests end up on a list of things, the developers pick things off that list based on criteria that are not public.

Gusses on priority are how many people impacted, how badly impacted, does it bring something that will be positive for Sonos, among others.

So few use the music library it doesn't earn a lot of priority points.

Why do the few have to suffer while the many get the good stuff? Just wondering...

 I’m one of the few.  Lots of my music can’t be found on streaming services.

Money, time and talent.

Only so much of each to be had, and Sonos is going to apply them where they see the most return on the investment.

Sucks for us library users but on the other hand the long time Sonos policy of not removing features is probably the only reason (looking at usage by customers and as a selling point) we still have the library option.

Yes, and unfortunately Sonos’s recent history is littered with examples of spectacularly poor decisions about how they allocate money, time, and talent.

If you use Apple Music, just upload ‘your’ Music, using Apple Music Sync Library (formally known as Apple Match), as long as your music library is less than 100,000 tracks, and each of your files are less than 200MB.

I learned many of these software development lessons tne hard way,  the biggest takeaway was only make each dumb decision once and learn from it. Sonos under the new management seems to be trying.

As there is so little information available it is hard for us users, or even stockholders to honestly evaluate many internal decisions until they truly in a massive train wreck. 

In the world of venture capital, common sense is thrown out the window.  The next quarter returns are all that matters, even if the company at large suffers.  This leads to some of the most inexplicable decisions a corporation can have, even seemingly suicidal at times.  But as long as the venture capitalists are happy, all is well (Not!).