Contributor I

Artist -> album searching

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
February 20, 2018
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I allways browse by artist and then their albums in ordor of when they came out. Suddenly I have to scroll down a couple of hunderd albums because every album the artist appears on is shown by release date aswell. Can you please revert to the previous way of album listing when the appear on albums where below the original artist releases?
It is verry anoying and i have had to swich to the spotify app, I prefere the sonos app but I am not going to scroll through a list of hunderds of albums for that one I wanted but couldnt remember the name of.

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Steve At Home

Lyricist II

Well, I've just done the latest update (28 Feb) of the Sonos android app and it hasn't fixed this problem.

Just done an artist search and the first instance of an actual album by them was TWENTY EIGHTH in the list, the rest was compilations and other garbage.

This is of no use to me, and NOT the service I would expect from Sonos.

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Alan_6

Prodigy II

I'd assume the problem is with the Spotify API. Although, wouldn't explain Spotify clients doing a better job of searching than their APIs. That said, if the meta-data for "Artist" and "Album Artist" exists and is correct, Sonos presumably could fix the incoming search order.

(Did a test search for "Rush", and their large catalog is reverse-chronological-by-release-date in Spotify desktop, random-and-buried with a Spotify search in Sonos).

moosum

Lyricist II

Same problem, I’ve just searched on Spotify through Sonos for Marvin Gaye.
I counted 300 compilation albums before the fist studio album appears....

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mcamannapolis

Lyricist I

The Spotify App still displays albums properly, so this appears to be a SONOS issue, not a Spotify issue. I agree, this is really annoying. If i search an artist, I don't want to scroll through a hundred random compilation albums just to find the artist's full length albums. Clearly, the SONOS staff don't actually use their own products if they don't see this as an issue!

pwt

Virtuoso

The Spotify App still displays albums properly, so this appears to be a SONOS issue, not a Spotify issue.

Probably not a Sonos issue (as Alan_6 alludes above), but I expect that Sonos is already in contact with Spotify to resolve the issue.

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conor

Enthusiast I

This is still happening, and still very annoying.

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kimgsriver64

Trending Lyricist I

Still happening for me too in the Sonos IOS app. Albums are correctly separated from "Appears on" in the Spotify app, although I think they may have been briefly mixed together in the Spotify app at the time I first noticed the problem in the Sonos app .

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goldxstein

Lyricist II

This is super annoying. Attached is the result I got for Paul Young on my iPad... Endless amounts of 80s compilations, the Albums hard to find.
For now I need to stick to using Spotify directly. I often search for an artist and then use the All Albums tab in Spotify to discover records I did not know before. This is not possible with the Sonos app displaying search results like this.