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BarryM
August 31, 2012

Show the Composer tag on the Now Playing screen

  • 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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Trending Lyricist I
June 25, 2014
I'm not sure.  They used to.  A while back, I sent them a support request with this thread as a link.  Does anyone else fancy doing this?
Bombard. Good plan! Let's do it!
Avid Contributor II
June 25, 2014
I'm not sure.  They used to.  A while back, I sent them a support request with this thread as a link.  Does anyone else fancy doing this?
I'm in... How do we contact tech support?
Contributor I
June 25, 2014
Yes. I'll contact tech support. If we all do it, maybe they will take a little bit of notice before ignoring the issue...
Lyricist III
June 25, 2014
Yes. I'll contact tech support. If we all do it, maybe they will take a little bit of notice before ignoring the issue...
www.sonos.com/support
Contributor I
June 26, 2014
Sonos technical support has responded positively. We'll just have to wait and see... "Thank you for contacting Sonos Customer Care. You are correct that this is one of our more popular requests from our classical music listeners. While you are already in the right place on the website to submit feedback, I am going to forward this along to our design team as a feature request as well. Any news or updates on this feature will be announced on the thread you have linked."
Lyricist III
June 26, 2014
People power!
Trending Lyricist I
July 2, 2014
Thanks everyone!
Contributor III
September 6, 2014
I am also missing this very much. I suggest an option under settings for -Show composer in "Now Playing"-  those of us who want and need it can turn it on and those that don't can leave it off.  Sonos already indexes the composer tag so I don't see how this could affect the amount of information that Sonos need to store, it is simply a matter of tweaking the controller software. 
Trending Lyricist I
September 6, 2014
Andrew.  Any chance you could contact tech support to request this?  Think the more that ask them directly, the more chance it will be implemented 🙂
Lyricist II
December 7, 2014
Mega +1 This is the only enhancement I'm focussed on. Please Sonos. Step up to it. I'm an IT programmer. If you don't want to drawn user experience with Flow of tags you just have to add a personalization option and let the user choose... This is not a Big deal !