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AlexTee
Avid Contributor I
December 9, 2012

Include Contributing Artists field in search!

  • December 9, 2012
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I use both Artist and Album Artist tags frequently for my tracks. Sonos desktop controller (other controllers probably do the same) shows Artist in the information screen for the track, but when I select Artist Info->View Tracks by This Artist, the controller does not match anything. This is because Sonos interprets Album Artist (when it's not empty) tag as Artist, and the actual Artist appears only as Contributing Artist (if enabled in the controller's settings), but the search functions does not include the Contributing Artist field. Very inconvenient. Please, add Contributing Artist field in the Search function!
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      Thorsten_4
      Trending Lyricist I
      September 13, 2014
      This is really fantastic. I just tried SonoPad and SonoPhone. In both Apps on iPhone and iPad, the search for contributing artists works like a charm and it is unbelievable, that Sonos is – after years over years – not ready for this basic feature here.
      DarrenLink
      Enthusiast I
      September 15, 2014
      I've just tried SonoPad tonight and the Contributing Artists search is fantastic. My music library contains approximately 700 album artists but well over 3000 contributing artists. I can finally search for all of these 'lost' artists (and tracks) but I shouldn't have to use a third party controller to do this. If SonoPad can do it why can't the official Sonos controller? This really should have been fixed when the universal search function was implemented. I agree that it's unbelievable that this basic feature has been missing all these years and still hasn't been implemented. Please Sonos, sort it out and don't try to blame it on tagging!!!
      vincent80surf
      Trending Lyricist I
      May 26, 2019
      what's the status on this feature request? Still not fixed I think in the software...? All the links to ask.sonos.com are dead as well...
      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      May 26, 2019
      The post you responded to was 4 years old, and from the old Sonos forum, which is why those links don't work.

      Given that there's not been any action on the request, I'd assume it's pretty low on their list of things that need to be worked on. That being said, it could be released with the next software release. Sonos chooses not to share their roadmap with us.
      Bruce
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