Improve the "Information" screen for the Local Library.

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
August 31, 2012
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* allow me to access the Information screen from items in the queue, or on the Now Playing screen. * have the Browse The artist facility include composite albums where the artist contributes tracks, but doesn't own the whole album * allow me to access track tag data not indexed by Sonos; ie. Genre, Composer, Conductor, Lyrics, Date Recorded, Date Ripped, Original Title, Involved People, .... If I have taken the trouble to tag my music with a this data it would be good if the Sonos controllers could display it back to me. * allow link across to Artist or Album data stored in public places such as wikipedia or Last.fm (eg. http://www.last.fm/music/Gotan+Project or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotan_Project or the same at the album level) I have difficulty seeing what value it delivers in its current form. ... I have a computer in my hand ... it has an "information" button, but it just seems to a lame little circular facility showing just what I could see already see, but didn't answer any of my questions.

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Peter_9

Lyricist I

Yes! I, too, have gone to great effort to ensure that the ID3 tags for all of my music are correct and complete, and I have several tools with which I can view this information on a Windows PC. But the Information button in the iPad app shows only Track, Artist, Album, and Cover artwork (data that was already shown on the path to get to that button). This device has gobs of real estate -- please provide a means to display *ALL* ID3 tags.

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Doug_4

Contributor II

Also an A-Z side bar, like an address book for finding artists or songs. My library has many many songs and artist. Need to be able to get to the T's quicker than swiping through from A every time.

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AlexTee

Avid Contributor I

Also, make it show the audio format of the track.

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pvalenca

Trending Lyricist I

Good point. I appear to be scrolling far too much, just to get closer to the searched for entry.

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John M

Sonos Staff

Thank you for sharing the idea, Barry. And thanks to everyone else for the contributions.

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Kibosh

Contributor III

An importing thing missing and I have read it many times, is the year the song came out. Sorting the albums on release date would be a big improvement. I saw this already two or three years ago when I bought my first Sonos. It's a shame it's not yet implemented. I also did a lot of work adding the tags in my library, hours of work going lost in Sonos. Maybe an idea for Sonos is to implement an option with a simple .txt file or something equal. When indexing the library through a PC or Mac controller, Sonos will read out all available tags, and write it into a file, which it drops on the hard-drive in the folder of the album. Then with the info button, the controllers can read out the file and show all info about the artist or album. These files would be very small, so Sonos controllers could quickly read them out over the network. The PC Program "Album Player" uses this aproach, and it works good. Or going a little further: My library is stored on a NAS. Sonos could create it's own folder there (of my choosing) and put all files needed inside. And then the next step, being able to "edit" these files through the PC or MAC controllers. I don't know it's correct but I think I have read somewhere that it had something to do with memory limitations in the Sonos hardware. Either, being able to have very large libraries and some have (not me), or being able to show more info but limiting the amounts of albums in a library. I'm sure all people with their own libraries and using Sonos, have their own PC or MAC. Or (I'm on the roll here) bring out a new hardware component to add this. A bridge+ or something. Creating a bigger memory for the system.

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mistyoptic

Avid Contributor III

And bit rate please!

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Evohass

It would also be very useful, particularly to those of us cleaning their libraries, if the actual path of a track could be shown. Now when I find mistakes in the metadata there is no way of relating that back to the actual file.

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tjparsonson

Contributor I

definitely support this! am converting gradually from mp3 to lossless and would favour higher bit rate albums when searching

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mistyoptic

Avid Contributor III

Don't understand this comment. My CR200 and the ipod software already offer this. Am I missing the point?