Fragmented Albums

Question

Hello, I appreciate that similar topics to this have been listed, but none seem to cover my experiences. An album recently downloaded (with iTunes) was Madonna’s Confessions II_Afterhours edition. It contains 16 tracks on on disc 1 and 6 extras on disc 2. Over the 22 tracks, 15 are solely by Madonna and 7 with different collobrating artists.
Within Sonos when I search by artist Madonna, then select confession II album, just the 15 Madonna only tracks are listed. The other tracks are separetely listed us Madonna plus the collobrating artist. Similarly when I search by albums there are seven listings for that album.
Looking at the properties in itunes there are fields “Album Artist” which in all cases was Madonna, & “artist” which is Madonna plus the collobrating artist. This data is seen using windows file explorer as Album artist (Madonna) & Contributing … (Madonna plus collorating artist). Within Sonos the data in the artist field is Madonna plus collobrating artist. There is no other additional artist field visible.

Sonos controller for PC is version 7.2.3 & iphone is S2 build 88.00.51. Both lists as up to date

Is there a setting within Sonos to correct this and have all tracks appear/play under one album?

kdowling · Answer

In case you haven’t, look in settings Music Library → Group Albums By. You have a choice of iTunes Compilation, Album Artists, Both or Do not group. Album Artists (or both) should fix this. And if you don’t want to see contributing artists as separate, turn View Contributing Artists off.

Edit to add: There seems to be problems using search for various artist albums right now. If you look in Music Library → Artists does the album show up correctly there?

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