Show the Composer tag on the Now Playing screen

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
August 31, 2012
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The Now Playing widget shows Album, Artist and track title. It doesn't show the Composer name, even though Sonos has this information in its indices. Many classical albums are a composite program of works by various composers. When a track is queued, or playing, there is no way whatsoever to discover who the composer is. The titles given to classical works often give little clue; eg. "String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op 59.2: I. Allegro" ... pick the composer? It is very disappointing that this feature hasn't been implemented after 5+ years of requests from customers who enjoy classical music. I can't see why it isn't self evident that feature is required. In most instances a Sonos improves upon playing music from a physical cd; ie. I don't have to find it, and then put it away. This is an instance where the use of a Sonos degrades the experience; ie. I am listening to something, but I can't tell what it is, as I have no longer have access to the cover.

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Mary-Helen

Lyricist III

I am reluctant to add composer to every track as will hit Sonos' limitation on tags.

Gosh, I didn't realise that this has been an issue of long standing! Like others on this page, knowing the composer is very important. I'm getting tired of accessing this info through iTunes. I'm not at all heartened by what I've read...

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mozart999uk

Trending Lyricist I

I am reluctant to add composer to every track as will hit Sonos' limitation on tags.

Do sonos support read these forums? I sent them a link once via email but they didn't respond.....

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User499501

Lyricist II

I too wish Sonos would show the Composer on the Info and Now Playing displays. Sonos does a great job in indexing - it derives well from the iTunes library where I have now stored hundreds of (mostly classical) CDs to play through Sonos. You have the info - now let us see it!

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mozart999uk

Trending Lyricist I

I wonder how many posts we will have to make before someone from Sonos chimes in?

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chasW

Contributor I

It must be a trivial bit of programming to do this. It is not asking much. Alternatively, it should be relatively straightforward to allow the user to configure and customise which tags they want to show and where (like foobar which is what I use on my PC to interface with my classical music database). In response to the last post, does anybody at SONOS actually read these posts?

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mozart999uk

Trending Lyricist I