Show the Composer tag on the Now Playing screen
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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To be honest I'm getting a bit fed up with Sonos ignoring this one......
Each time I receive an email about upgrades I get excited... but not for long! Sonos, do you care about this issue? See Mega+1 comments above!
Just emailed support again.
I included a link to this thread which their helpdesk system stripped out. Awesome!
Maintain the rage and contact support everyone. I'm going to contact helpdesk again too...
Thank you for Your feedback and thank you for playing at "Find the missing feature"...
A few months back, I contacted Sonos customer support about this issue, and they agreed to put this forward as a feature in a future revision. However, this has not happened. Please contact them again. The more people who do, the more lilely it is to happen.
I got his back from TS:
Thank you for your enhancement request.
While not all requests are added to a release they are all helpful in determining the direction of future releases.
Thank you for your enhancement request.
While not all requests are added to a release they are all helpful in determining the direction of future releases.
I have just asked SONOS to show the composer in the "now playing" display and sonos directed me to this thread.
I ripped my CD collection and added the composer of every song. It would be great to see this information again. As it is now I can search the composer, but I can't easily see who composed the tune I am listening to.
I ripped my CD collection and added the composer of every song. It would be great to see this information again. As it is now I can search the composer, but I can't easily see who composed the tune I am listening to.
Another person waiting and waiting and...
But composer is not revealed in Sonos when playing streamed music either. So the problem here is that they don't care about classical music.
Actually, I believe it's absolutely impossble to get information on the composer of a track if it's not (erreneously) encoded into Artist, Album or Track by the streaming service.
Classical music in the streaming services is a complete disaster where everything is mixed up becuase the databases are not adjusted for classical music and no one knows where to put the important information. As far as I can see Sonos does absolutely nothing to improve the experience from these services. On the contrary it works even worse in Sonos than in the actual Spotify/Deezer and other apps. It's a big joke how badly these things work everywhere.
There's a lot of buzz regarding AI and thinking computers and even Sonos now has implemented a speaker that is supposed to trick us to belive there's some kind of intelligence behind the scenes when in fact no one has even managed to make such a simple thing as making the composer of a track searchable and viewable in systems that has been around for a decade. There's no intelligence present here at all and in some cases the crucial information (like soloists, arrangers e.t.c.) was probably thrown away when the track was ripped into the streaming servie and is lost forever.
And where are the sleeves? Gone forever apart from a small scan of the front cover. Pathetic.
Seems like a lost cause. I have been a loyal Sonos user for ten years. For the last two years I have been using Apple Music and Sonos. It works quite well but being unable to view the composer is a real downside. Have been using Apple TV to play my Apple Music library. The composer is then visible.
I completely agree. Not showing the composer is crazy, for classical music. What makes me really sad is reading in this thread that five years ago people were complaining that this has been asked for five years before that, so they have been not listening for ten years...
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Please, let us choose which tag should be visible on the Now Playing screen: I'm doing a backup of all my classical library (about 3000 cds) and... I've just realized that if I want to know a composer or a specific Album Artist I have to get back to my cd sleeve! I spent many days to set up a tagging method to discover that it is useless on my new Sonos system.
I'm very disappointed. Please, let me know that you'll fix this issue...
Thanks.
Please, let us choose which tag should be visible on the Now Playing screen: I'm doing a backup of all my classical library (about 3000 cds) and... I've just realized that if I want to know a composer or a specific Album Artist I have to get back to my cd sleeve! I spent many days to set up a tagging method to discover that it is useless on my new Sonos system.
I'm very disappointed. Please, let me know that you'll fix this issue...
Thanks.
Thank you very much for your reply.
Unfortunately, I didn't know the Sonos Policy. I can understand Sonos but... I dreamt something else.
I'll try alternative controllers to find out if there is someone which is getting closer to my expectations.
Many thanks, Alan.
Unfortunately, I didn't know the Sonos Policy. I can understand Sonos but... I dreamt something else.
I'll try alternative controllers to find out if there is someone which is getting closer to my expectations.
Many thanks, Alan.
The music sources for my Sonos is Apple iTunes which provide both artist and composer for the song. So the information is already supplied to the Sonos Controller. All we need is for Sonos to give us the option to display either or both. It should be a easy fix for this obvious omission.
Therefore one can only conclude that it must be a deliberate suppression or complete contempt for its customers ignoring these complaints without explanation for such a long time. As such Sonos does not deserve our custom
Unfortunately, I didn't know the Sonos Policy. I can understand Sonos but... I dreamt something else.
I'll try alternative controllers to find out if there is someone which is getting closer to my expectations.
Many thanks, Alan.
Well, at least Sonos are all about giving users a consistent and predictable experience (rather than a great one). And sadly, like the experience of buying music digitally, it does seem to be that most services believe that "liner notes and lyrics" info should not be delivered along with the music (or at all). Like so many software "solutions", the high-tech workaround for missing expected functionality is a piece of paper...
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I've been looking at the data the system provides when enumerating and playing content, and I don't see the Composer data anywhere. You can Search the music library by composer, so it is stored somewhere for that, but i don't see it being returned at any other time.
TL;DR I don't think a 3rd party app could improve on the current experience, as the data is not available.
TL;DR I don't think a 3rd party app could improve on the current experience, as the data is not available.
Sonos have made it very clear over the years that they're simply not interested in fetching any tagging information from either local library or subscription services other than the album artwork on-the-fly (we can assume Sonos units store the absolute minimum tagging required for navigation/display due to limited local library memory and/or "UI simplicity").
Using a separate source - iTunes, CD booklet, Wikipedia (and seek out some alternative controllers like Sonopad if you want that integrated) - is likely to be your only solution.
Using a separate source - iTunes, CD booklet, Wikipedia (and seek out some alternative controllers like Sonopad if you want that integrated) - is likely to be your only solution.
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