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Same album name/different artists confusion

  • April 25, 2020
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This question has been around for several years and does not appear to have been resolved.

I discovered it last night with 3 of my albums named Maiden Voyage.  A search for the by album name brings up  one listing with all 3 albums’ tracks.  If I search by artist, yes then only one of the albums appears.

Sonos it is time to address this issue.

Best answer by John B

I asked about the field AlbumArtist, but no matter.

Sonos haven't done any development on the music library functionality in years, and I suspect that will remain the case, I am afraid. 

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Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 12319 replies
  • April 26, 2020

I just altered the album titles causing problems here by appending a bit of the artist to them. Fixed the Sonos issue and the artists that couldn’t think of anything better than “Best Of” as a title too.


  • 19684 replies
  • April 26, 2020

Sonos can only deal with the metadata it is given. Nothing for Sonos to fix, IMO.  

Just edit the tags, as ​@Stanley_4 suggests. 


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  • Avid Contributor III
  • 56 replies
  • April 26, 2020

Stanley and John, thank you both.  But why must the user have to make changes, when other softwaree can interpret the metadata, Sonos should also.


  • 19684 replies
  • April 26, 2020

Just had a further thought.  What do your files have in the  Artist field? And what about in Album Artist?


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  • Avid Contributor III
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  • April 26, 2020

The artist fields and album fields are complete and accurate.  If I search by artist in Sonos app, the album appears correctly.  It is when I search by album that the files become merged.  This was discussed 7 years ago and again 11 months ago.  I am not the only one with this problem.


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  • April 26, 2020

I asked about the field AlbumArtist, but no matter.

Sonos haven't done any development on the music library functionality in years, and I suspect that will remain the case, I am afraid. 


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  • Avid Contributor III
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  • April 26, 2020

That is what I answered, Album Artist is complete in all my files.

Thanks for stating that Sonos has not worked on the music library function.


  • Lyricist III
  • 8 replies
  • December 13, 2020

Seems that local music library is an prehistoric use case. Now everything about cloud is maintained...:disappointed_relieved: