It all depends on your meta data.

If you set the Album Artist to be something like "Various Artists" in the meta data for all tracks in the album, then it works.

However if you have the "Part of a compilation album" tag set Yes, then this is completely ignored. Which is irritating to say the least.

I have no idea if Sonos are working on it though. 

I have all my library compilation albums ‘album Artist’ tagged as ‘Various Artists’ - Anyhow, the one issue I see is that 100 albums only appear in ‘Artists/Various Artists’ folder, whereas I have 300+ albums - So more than 200 albums are not showing, but they are still indexed and I am able to search via the App and find them - but presumably the Artist Albums limit of 100, are hindering their display when I browse the library via the Artists branch.

Hi @Editor 

Thanks for your post!

Although this issue seems to be resolved for the majority of users, there are still some like yourself reporting this issue, so we are still investigating, yes.

I hope this helps.

This continues to vex me no end.  iTunes handles it no problem.  Old SONOS App worked properly.  The new App continues to frustrate, disappoint, and anger.  If album is a compilation it should show up as a single album.  Songs and artists should index properly.  Arg.

Have you tried switching the grouping method as mentioned in my post (link below) in this earlier thread?…

https://en.community.sonos.com/product-updates/update-on-the-sonos-app-from-patrick-spence-6900501/index39.html?postid=16820109#post16820109

@Corry P When are Sonos going to add the local library advanced indexing options to the new app? Or will they just vanish leaving all this to luck and chance when the desktop controllers are retired? 

Hi @Ian_S 

What exactly do you mean by “advanced indexing options”?

@Corry P 

The Group Albums Using box is where you choose between no grouping, iTunes compilations tag or Album Artists so the ‘Various Artists’ thing works. 

Hi @Ian_S 

Thanks! I guess it has been a while since I last saw that screen!

Scheduling would be a good thing to add too - this is on the to-do list already, but there is no time-scale for it as yet.

My assumption would be that those additional settings will be added before we depreciate the Desktop apps, but I have not actually heard anything to that effect with these settings specifically.

I will see what I can find out for you.