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cashburton
Contributor I
September 13, 2017

Play all Songs from Artist MISSING

  • September 13, 2017
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Sonos is missing a CRUCIAL feature that really lessens the quality of the Sonos experience.

By using the Sonos app on a smart phone, it is not possible to play all songs from an artist without manually going in and adding all the albums to the end of the playlist queue. This has been confirmed by a Sonos rep.

A huuuge lack and a loss that should be rectified ASAP.
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      Smilja
      Smilja
      June 16, 2018
      Thanks for the comment, Ryan! That is actually very helpful to know. I have been doing that and casting my phone over my Sonos speaker at times, so I can just use the Google Music app functionality, since the Sonos app is so limited. It'd be preferable to go through the Sonos app directly, so that my phone isn't feeding the speaker (draining the battery, my music stops at times when other apps are used, etc.). So I hope Sonos fixes this seeming oversight on their app, but I do appreciate the tip!
      This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.
      »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
      FTT
      Trending Lyricist I
      June 20, 2018
      [quote=Smilja]This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.

      Are you a developer, Smilja? Google provides the library, but they don't create the Sonos interface. My Google music app provides me the missing functionality, and it also provides Sonos everything they need (they have the songs, so pulling them outside of their albums for that point of view should be pretty easy to do).
        Smilja
        Smilja
        June 20, 2018
        [quote=FTT]This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.

        Are you a developer, Smilja? Google provides the library, but they don't create the Sonos interface. My Google music app provides me the missing functionality, and it also provides Sonos everything they need (they have the songs, so pulling them outside of their albums for that point of view should be pretty easy to do).

        https://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=node/224
        »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
        FTT
        Trending Lyricist I
        June 20, 2018
        [quote=Smilja]This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.

        Are you a developer, Smilja? Google provides the library, but they don't create the Sonos interface. My Google music app provides me the missing functionality, and it also provides Sonos everything they need (they have the songs, so pulling them outside of their albums for that point of view should be pretty easy to do).

        https://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=node/224

        Any part of that in particular that you're sharing?
        John B
        June 20, 2018
        This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.

        Are you a developer, Smilja? Google provides the library, but they don't create the Sonos interface. My Google music app provides me the missing functionality, and it also provides Sonos everything they need (they have the songs, so pulling them outside of their albums for that point of view should be pretty easy to do).        The interface is a joint build. All Sonos interfaces with streaming services lack a few features of the original app. Putting together two complex systems may just not be so trivially easy as you think.
        FTT
        Trending Lyricist I
        June 20, 2018
        This has to be done by Google themselves for they are responsible for the content provided.

        Are you a developer, Smilja? Google provides the library, but they don't create the Sonos interface. My Google music app provides me the missing functionality, and it also provides Sonos everything they need (they have the songs, so pulling them outside of their albums for that point of view should be pretty easy to do).        The interface is a joint build. All Sonos interfaces with streaming services lack a few features of the original app. Putting together two complex systems may just not be so trivially easy as you think.

        "So trivially easy as I think"... Wow... Not my words, but yes, I'm confident they wouldn't have too much trouble displaying the songs individually instead of within albums.
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