Show the Composer tag on the Now Playing screen

11 years ago
31 August 2012
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BarryM
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The Now Playing widget shows Album, Artist and track title. It doesn't show the Composer name, even though Sonos has this information in its indices. Many classical albums are a composite program of works by various composers. When a track is queued, or playing, there is no way whatsoever to discover who the composer is. The titles given to classical works often give little clue; eg. "String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op 59.2: I. Allegro" ... pick the composer? It is very disappointing that this feature hasn't been implemented after 5+ years of requests from customers who enjoy classical music. I can't see why it isn't self evident that feature is required. In most instances a Sonos improves upon playing music from a physical cd; ie. I don't have to find it, and then put it away. This is an instance where the use of a Sonos degrades the experience; ie. I am listening to something, but I can't tell what it is, as I have no longer have access to the cover.

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Adrian Byram
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10 years ago
28 October 2013

I just sent a note to support asking about this feature, and they suggested I add my name to this thread. I see that according to BarryM (at the start of this thread) that people have been asking for it for 5 years! I hope that Sonos can get to it sometime in my lifetime -- but their track record on software updates seems pretty poor.

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This really needs to be added. For classical music it's essential!

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If we could get a few more people to post it might speed things along...... 🙂

It's not only the composer who's missing - it's the composition, too if more than one are on one album and you don't want to repeat the name (e.g. of a symphony) in the name-string of the track, making it unnecessary long.

Come on Sonos guys - there's more than rock and pop and jazz etc out there.

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I am reluctant to add composer to every track as will hit Sonos' limitation on tags.

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I am reluctant to add composer to every track as will hit Sonos' limitation on tags.

Thanks for your reply. Can you explain this for me? I add composer info to every track.....

I am reluctant to add composer to every track as will hit Sonos' limitation on tags.

I didn't realise there was a limitation on tags. I have long since lost track (excuse the pun) of the hundreds of gigabytes of classical music I have on my system, and each track is fully tagged and indexed.

I too wish Sonos would show the Composer on the Info and Now Playing displays. Sonos does a great job in indexing - it derives well from the iTunes library where I have now stored hundreds of (mostly classical) CDs to play through Sonos. You have the info - now let us see it!

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I wonder how many posts we will have to make before someone from Sonos chimes in?

It must be a trivial bit of programming to do this. It is not asking much. Alternatively, it should be relatively straightforward to allow the user to configure and customise which tags they want to show and where (like foobar which is what I use on my PC to interface with my classical music database). In response to the last post, does anybody at SONOS actually read these posts?

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