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Platform: iOS

We use Sonos a lot to play audiobooks for our children. One hurdle here is that the beginning of many books in a series is the exact same. That makes it really hard to know what search result to choose, because the full name is concatenated. We would really like that the text of each search result row is scrolled sideways so that you can read the full name of the track. One alternative solution is to have the screen rotate when the phone is rotated. Then there would be more space for the name of the track. But that is something everybody would not understad they could do. Scrolling would be automatic for long titles and everybody would see it immediately.

You don’t say which device you are using, but if you use a PC (or even an iPad) you’ll get a lot more screen real-estate.

I think Sonos are going to need to do some work when/if Apple Music Classical gets full support, and classical music suffers from a similar problem of name truncation.

I just tried my own app, and I need to do some work too. Adding tooltips to items looks like a low-cost easy fix for mine at least.