Enthusiast II

music release dates

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
December 15, 2023
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Are there any plans to add this info at some point in the app? None of the major music services within the sonos app display it, far as I can tell. It might be a limitation of it not being in the sonos API, but can’t that be updated? When looking at artist pages, it’s not even clear what order they are in (new to old vs old to new).

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controlav

Lead Maestro

It is not in the API (except for podcasts), and the order of items is entirely determined by the music service: Sonos never sort anything, mostly because they can’t.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

J

jhl88Author

Enthusiast II

Then the question is why is it not in the API? That seems like a really big oversight. And why can’t sonos sort anything if release dates are passed via API?

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jhl88Author

Enthusiast II

PS - I have the same questions about things like artist bios, album descriptions, etc. These are also not included in the sonos API. But apparently nobody on these forums cares about this type of basic music info. Which boggles my mind, but at any rate. Yes, I can research in other music service apps, but that is punting the ball in my opinion. I wouldn’t care as much if it weren’t required to use the sonos app for atmos. As a result, I’m constantly researching and flipping between apps, which continues to be extremely annoying.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Sonos is pretty good about adding things that enough people want. Not so good about supporting niche interests.

controlav

Lead Maestro

PS - I have the same questions about things like artist bios, album descriptions, etc. These are also not included in the sonos API. But apparently nobody on these forums cares about this type of basic music info. Which boggles my mind, but at any rate. Yes, I can research in other music service apps, but that is punting the ball in my opinion. I wouldn’t care as much if it weren’t required to use the sonos app for atmos. As a result, I’m constantly researching and flipping between apps, which continues to be extremely annoying.

Some of that info is included in the API, but few music services support it usefully (see getExtendedMetadata and getExtendedMetadataText). I am away from my Sonos system right now so can’t tell you how to get to the More Info page.

If you look at SonoPad (for iPad) they have integrated web searching so you can get a lot more information about artists and tracks.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @jhl88

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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jhl88Author

Enthusiast II

Sonos is pretty good about adding things that enough people want. Not so good about supporting niche interests.

You consider music release dates to be a “niche interest”? This is very surprising to me. It’s displayed fairly prominently in Spotify, Apple Music, etc. See attached for some app screenshot examples. It doesn’t seem like a huge ask to me.

Anyways, a feature request has been logged, appreciate it!