HI Duncs
Many thanks for the feedback

I too have a whole house Sonos system, with Sonos relying on the iTunes Database of Music originally ripped (mostly thru EAC, lately dBpoweramp)

I've been tempted by the Sooloos for my main Music room only, but I've been hesitant at the possibility of having to maintain the iTunes Database for the rest of the House (as well as Car and iTouch etc) as well as having to maintain a SEPARATE Music Database for Sooloos.

As we all know, this can be very time consuming, so having to do it twice was not very appealing. I've been wondering how Sooloos would cope with an Import from an iTunes or similar database and the answers you provide above are "frightening" IMHO

As Display sizes increase, I went to the trouble a long time ago of embedding Artwork in EACH Music file, at a Minimum size of 500 by 500 Pixels. Anything less doesn't look well on the more modern displays e.g. iPad

Sooloos Ignoring the already Embedded Artwork and reverting back to 200 by 200 pixels is inexplicable IMHO. I've always wondered why the Artwork looked poor on the Sooloos "Now Playing" window and now I know why.

As for the fact that Sooloos ignores the Artist Name on the Import of Compilations................defies belief. I can only assume that it DOES import the Artist Name for Single Artist Albums???? (e.g. Highway 61 - Bob Dylan)

ITunes, WMP and most of the other Music Databases were at the same point on Artist Names, Compilations and Album Artwork, about 3-4 years ago. This forced some workarounds to achieve the desired result. However, they have all improved dramatically in the intervening years, with the exception of some Classical CD's which still leave a lot to be desired, but can be worked around using Spare Database fields which are now available

Just my impression based on your comments, but also hours of playing around with a demo Sooloos System, that it just seems behind the times when it comes to the Music Management / Databas / Tagging side

Enthusiasm Dampened!!!

Last edited by Ronnie; 2010-08-10 20:56.
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