I can confirm same ‘view’ and problems on my lokal (NAS based) library. It’s simply not working nice or I’ve no ‘trick’ to have my lib scanned properly (= no art, double albums with same name, especcially from collections with various artists). So, waiting for next app and firmware update, that might fix these critical bugs...

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Please see the banner at the top of this post from Patrick Spence: https://www.sonos.com/en-us/blog/update-on-the-sonos-app?utm_source=community-care&utm_medium=blog-patrick

In this letter, he specifies the timeline for the fixing of the local library browsing.

Thanks for the reply, I’m not alone then!

I’m not sure that the issues being addressed refered to by UKMedia above regarding local library browsing are actually the issue at hand? Or am I mistaken?

And I’m a Whisky man myself! :)

Many users are reporting multiple issues with their local music libraries, I don’t use one so I can’t see if your issue is related sorry.

My (latest Version) SONOS sees the Music libraries on my PC (Windows 11), and accepts the paths after sharing them with EVERYONE on the PC, but does not display any of the Categories! No Songs, Artists etc. Why? 

The post from Patrick Spence says that music library issues would be fixed in July/August and implies that all work fixing the current Sonos app would be completed by September/October. It is now November 2nd and my music library still does not index properly. Compilation albums (of which I have a lot) now display as a separate album for each track. Album artwork, which had displayed correctly before the Sonos app “improvement” no longer displays. All in all it is virtually impossible for me to browse my library of ripped cds and select one for playback. 
 

For me, this is the most serious problem with the new Sonos app. I realize that it is a bit old fashioned but I still enjoy listening to my own library of CDs (even though that library is now ripped and resides on my local NAS drive). Some of these CDs cannot be found for streaming on Spotify or other platforms accessible with the Sonos. So playing them on my own library is the only way I can listen to them. 
 

i will add that this is not only an issue for me but also for my elderly parents. They are preparing to move into a much smaller apartment in an assistant living community where they will not have room for their large collection of classical music CDs. I had proposed helping them to rip the collection onto hard drive and setting up a small Sonos system with which they could play their music. They are not very computer literate — but the original Sonos app was simple and intuitive enough that I thought it would not be a problem for them to use it. That certainly isn’t true anymore. My hopes that Sonos would fix these problems in a reasonable amount of time are dwindling and I am starting to think about finding some other platform for them to digitize and stream their music collection. 

I think a number of people have pointed out to sonos that the major issue at the moment is that sonos is indexing albums based on track artists instead of album artists. 
 

if this simple change could be made it would resolve a lot of library issues for people. 
 

at the moment I have a perfectly tagged collection which works fine on other players, and can only browse it using the folder view in the sonos app. 

As rorton say’s indexing by album artists would work better in most cases, however I have a couple of jazz compilations where the track artist was listed in the album artist field! so they didn’t show correctly either.

As I dont have many compilations that’s not a great issue for me, however the lack of a working search is still an issue. I can browse in folder also in artist, album etc and all fine, however if I use the search results come back with tracks missing/missordered, is this also a tagging issue?