Improve the "Information" screen for the Local Library.

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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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Alan_6

Prodigy II

Sonos already uses your ID3 tags for the limited info provided (track title, number, artist, album). The problem is, there's no way to request the other tagging information (and the unused "info" screen would be the perfect place). My guess is that performance, memory and clean UI concerns have led Sonos to limit the system to only caring about the basic tagging info. I'm sure we'd all like to have the option of drilling down and fetching all the tags for a particular track (and preferably also an album/playlist for things like album year and total running time) from our Sonos systems, rather than having to go off to some other app like iTunes.

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

Sonos already uses your ID3 tags for the limited info provided (track title, number, artist, album). The problem is, there's no way to request the other tagging information (and the unused "info" screen would be the perfect place). My guess is that performance, memory and clean UI concerns have led Sonos to limit the system to only caring about the basic tagging info. I'm sure we'd all like to have the option of drilling down and fetching all the tags for a particular track (and preferably also an album/playlist for things like album year and total running time) from our Sonos systems, rather than having to go off to some other app like iTunes.

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mawi

Avid Contributor I

Please add "Go to track in library" function from track info! I cant seem to be able to move from a track entry and its info to where that track is in the library. That would be really great, if I need to fix the metadata, for instance, I could then know where the problem is. Luuks suggestion to show the path is also good, but actually moving to it, in the library, would be very, very useful.

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User878323

Contributor I

Please display track time in all lists applicable. Please display Album date (if not track date). Please allow use of these for search and sorting.

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

I can think of a few reasons (technical effort, clean minimalist design, deliberately hiding details, saving users from their untagged files, feature priorities) why Sonos still shows such limited meta data. We know that memory is limited so holding a dozen tags for every track in memory just in case is a big ask, but Sonos already gets extra track metadata (the artwork) for the current track/album on request. We know how this feature should work (basically, see iTunes), and there's already space on the user interface (the unused info screen) to put the tagging info without cluttering that nice clean Sonos design. I remember Napster feeding the info screen (Spotify doesn't). The current workaround (go off to iTunes etc to get library details) is a joke. It would be nice to get a response from Sonos on this.

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mawi

Avid Contributor I

Please add "Go to track in library" function from track info! I cant seem to be able to move from a track entry and its info to where that track is in the library. That would be really great, if I need to fix the metadata, for instance, I could then know where the problem is. Luuks suggestion to show the path is also good, but actually moving to it, in the library, would be very, very useful.

This one is HUGE. Please please please please please add it. Navigability FTW!

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RobinRichmond

Contributor I

I endorse this request, and will try to express it another way: a) Please provide a sortable data grid or table like WMP and iTunes to browse and select music. The current hierarchical selection process is awfully limiting. b) Please provide a way to see more metadata about the current song than just the artist, album, and song name.

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

While I love the richness of iTunes as a database, I'd actually say that the "sortable grid" as a navigation/playback screen (for anything other than a smart search) is over-complex, and doesn't really serve the key use case of "I want to listen to this song/artist/album/playlist". Sonos's simple "find music quickly, drag it onto the playing queue" approach works pretty well. There is an issue with the limited info you can get back from the tags in the tracks in your library (and other music services). How Sonos might change navigating and sorting through the tracks you might want to play is a whole other discussion.

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Andy G

Trending Lyricist I

1) To be able to filter tracks or albums by year 2) When viewing albums by a particular artist, for the albums to be listed by year, not alphabetically 3) When viewing "info and option", for the year to be displayed at the moment the "info" screen doesn't show any "new " information and is circular

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mozart999uk

Trending Lyricist I

I'd love to be able to access composer information by pressing the "i" button.

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