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I just observed a quirk and wondered if this was a SONOS or NAS issue.

I noticed that many of my albums had duplicate entries in the Album view and it seems that SONOS is cataloguing everything in the NAS recycle bin?

I had been converting all my WAV compilation albums to FLAC and had a large volume of wav files in the recycle bin otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed it,

 

It’s an ASUSTOR Flashstor 6.

 

The problem was cleared when I emptied the recycle bin but its an unwelcome extra step if I have to check & empty my recycle bins before updating the media library.    

If your NAS is from Synology then DSM has the ability to disable the recycle bin at a folder level. So you could turn it off for your shared music folder. I assume other NAS brands would offer something similar.

Ross.

It depends on how you’re pointing the Sonos software to read your music storage. If that includes the recycle bin, they will show up. 

This is a common issue. If the library editor ‘deletes’ the original edited file, rather than simply updating it, the NAS will copy the deleted file into the recycle folder. When SONOS indexes the library, if the NAS presents files in the recycle folder before the current files, the indexer will ignore the second and any following ‘duplicate’ copies. The result is that the edits seem to be ignored -- even though you can ‘prove’ that the file has been edited by examining it in the main folder.

I’ve also seen this happen as I combine libraries and there is a stray duplicate in one of the libraries. These can be hard to find.

I make a point of disabling the music library’s recycle folder.

If your NAS is from Synology then DSM has the ability to disable the recycle bin at a folder level. So you could turn it off for your shared music folder. I assume other NAS brands would offer something similar.

Ross.

Thanks for the tip,   Recycle Folder now disabled on the NAS music folder 

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