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rajwoodson
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October 9, 2012

Display song lyrics in sonos app

  • October 9, 2012
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There is more than enough room on iPad app to display song lyrics - why can't I see all the ID3 tags in Sonos?
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      palatucci
      Lyricist I
      January 31, 2017
      Cocky of them! Thank you.
      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      January 31, 2017
      I'd say it's intelligent, although frustrating to us consumers, but you're most welcome.

      On the other hand, it's an entirely additional level of communication that would have to be added. Right now, all of the "smarts" of Sonos is in the speaker, and the controller is merely a "remote control" device. They've already got the feature to push the song name to the controller, but they'd have to open up additional data paths to push the lyrics across. And probably have to pay someone to have access to them, etc. It's not a 10 minute fix issue, I'd suspect. A few things to think about and implement, and then deal with the complaints (" Why did you show my kids those explicit lyrics?" or "Why are you only showing lyrics on streamer company X and not on streaming company Y?")

      Unfortunately, much of what is done by Sonos is complicated by the fact that they're just an aggregator. So they end up depending on the third party vendors to supply all of the data through the Sonos API, not only to the speaker for music reproduction, but then on to the controller, assuming it's connected.
      Bruce
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