Add name of the artist

[dennidoubles]

Hi @johanfrick ,

My big compliments for this card, it is awesome!

I have a thingie going on.
When I mark Spotify albums as favorite in the Sonos desktop app, I can see the artist also.
Example:

But ... unfortunately, I don't see the artist (or Various Artists, or whatever) in the Sonos card.
Example:

Now, I may know who the artist is, but my wife doesn't. If she is looking for -in this example- Ed Sheeran, she tells me there isn't any. But there ís, but it is only recognizable with the album name.

Is it possible to add this to any update of the card? I assume you already worked on this but I could not see any post about this.

Thanks for looking into this!

[punxaphil]

Thanks for the kind words🙂
As far as I remember that info is not available in the Sonos integration, but I can have another look.

[dennidoubles]

That would be awesome, thank you! Because otherwise it will create a list of albums, but no clue from who they are...That must be a "problem" for anybody, including you?
Thanks for having another look!

[punxaphil]

Looks like it is not possible. It is the same thing with the built in media browser http://homeassistant.local/media-browser/browser and the API response does not provide artist. Example:

{
  "title": "Albums",
  "media_class": "directory",
  "media_content_type": "spotify://current_user_saved_albums",
  "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/current_user_saved_albums",
  "children_media_class": "album",
  "can_play": false,
  "can_expand": true,
  "thumbnail": null,
  "not_shown": 0,
  "children": [
    {
      "title": "Neutronstjärnan",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:1HObi9uMTxl0DmKdaDWgwx",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27324575769bcf39c86555ce839"
    },
    {
      "title": "Superlativ 97",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:3bgfgOYm533nhDX9Dbp1Bu",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737883837068411c7ae1d77869"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 3 (Music From The Amazon Original Series)",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:76LLVkbVtrRyL46RXxgo0i",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273591cb75f23ed4e21de7128df"
    },
    {
      "title": "Butter Miracle Suite One",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:4DPAfevbahfsMvrwaRK98f",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273f237f0369a5f7b80cf19bfd9"
    },
    {
      "title": "Själ och hjärta",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:5fWPwAePaHcvQB3ZEHOGv1",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2736a1220dc94244d81aa31350c"
    },
    {
      "title": "Voyage",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:0uUtGVj0y9FjfKful7cABY",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273225d9c1b06ca69aec9b08381"
    },
    {
      "title": "Last Train Home (Ballad Version)",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:4qI7QOLeKaYr0OtqjCXi7d",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273a58988c792a68f20d204a4ad"
    },
    {
      "title": "folklore",
      "media_class": "album",
      "media_content_type": "spotify://album",
      "media_content_id": "spotify://8fb1de564ba7e4c8c4561860574c83b9/spotify:album:2fenSS68JI1h4Fo296JfGr",
      "children_media_class": "track",
      "can_play": true,
      "can_expand": true,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27395f754318336a07e85ec59bc"
    }
  ]
}

[dennidoubles]

That is very unfortunate, but I do respect the fact that you have looked into it.
Thanks for that!

Then I'll nee to work with a low number mediaBrowserItemsPerRow , so that my family can recognize them by Albumcover.

Thanks again.