Hi @Horatio
Welcome to the Sonos Community!
Sorry to hear of this issue you are having with compilation albums appearing empty.
It is likely that the issue is due to metadata being missing from the affected tracks - please add “Various Artists” to the Album Artist tag of all tracks on the album.
There are many applications that can do this for you, including doing them en-mass, but I cannot recommend any specific ones. I assume iTunes allows it.
I hope this helps.
Thank you - I will try this out. I do have Metadatics (macOS), which should be able to do the job. I will let you know about the result (may take a few days).
This is a new “feature” that appeared to occur withing the last update 16.5 or one before. I used to have fragmenting of compilations but that got resolved in 16.3 (?). Now suddenly I have no tracks under anything marked as a compilation. And yes, there is metadata.
I would recommend that you submit a system diagnostic, and call Sonos Support to discuss it. But don’t post the resulting diagnostic number here, they get sensitive about GDPR.
There may be information included in the diagnostic that will help Sonos pinpoint the issue and help you find a solution.
When you speak directly to the Support staff, they have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your network and Sonos system.
Hi @Horatio
Welcome to the Sonos Community!
Sorry to hear of this issue you are having with compilation albums appearing empty.
It is likely that the issue is due to metadata being missing from the affected tracks - please add “Various Artists” to the Album Artist tag of all tracks on the album.
There are many applications that can do this for you, including doing them en-mass, but I cannot recommend any specific ones. I assume iTunes allows it.
I hope this helps.
Sorry for the delay - didn’t find the time to check this out.
Result:
- The problem (empty album in music library) occurs when the “Compilation” tag in the metadata is set.
- If the “Compilation” tag helps is deselected, the problem is solved and the album is shown with content in the music library. However:
- If the tracks of the album have different values in the “Track Artist” tag, each track will appear as a separate album (one for each separate track artist). Evidently, this is undesired.
- Only if the tracks of the album have the same “Track Artist” tag will they appear as a single album (*regardless* of the data in the “Album Artist” tag).
I will look into contacting Sonos support.
Regards,
Jan
Hi @Horatio
Welcome to the Sonos Community!
Sorry to hear of this issue you are having with compilation albums appearing empty.
It is likely that the issue is due to metadata being missing from the affected tracks - please add “Various Artists” to the Album Artist tag of all tracks on the album.
There are many applications that can do this for you, including doing them en-mass, but I cannot recommend any specific ones. I assume iTunes allows it.
I hope this helps.
Do people really think this is a reasonable solution? It used to work fine in older versions, but now it is the users’ problem? I probably have a hundred such albums, and I would rather not discard the “album artist” information, since it is available. I, for one, don’t find Sonos’ approach to be reasonable.
Hi @glesieutre
My request is that you add info to your media tags, not remove it.
I hope this helps.
Hi @glesieutre
You may also find the following post from @Ken_Griffiths useful:
I hope this helps.
Hi @glesieutre
You may also find the following post from @Ken_Griffiths useful:
I hope this helps.
It helped, but involved a half-day of effort on my part. Seems like something Sonos broke that they could have fixed for everyone all at once.
