Compilation Tracks not searchable by Artist

Hello Mike,

Sonos reads the metadata directly from the track- which is how it is encoded. If you are unable to search for the artist and it show the compilation album, it may be that the metadata is not properly encoded to place the track in that area. 

You can manually alter/verify the metadata yourself via popular third party software. This will then place the songs in their desired sections. You could consider: MediaMonkey, VLC...etc

We can also take a look with you to see to verify this information with you if you'd like. You can give us a call when you have the time to troubleshoot. 


Hello Dominique Z, can we have an official response from Sonos on this topic ? (just read the thread, please)

I too, find it strange that contributing artists are not searchable on compilation albums.
My music library is on a synology NAS which comes with an app called DS Audio.
This app is able to find tracks by contributing artist name.
So the problem is not in the metadata (which is corrected for all tracks via musicbrainz)

Please, after years and many forum threads , build in the feature to index the contributing artist so it can be searched...

this is a joke

such a simple thing to do

nice to blame the metadata

i assumed that sonos cared and listened to the community. oh well, it's not like we've spent hundreds of hard earned dollars on their products or anything

is there any way to turn a topic into a Poll ?

Poll Options:
- Sonos should allow Searching by Contributing Artist
- Id rather Sonos spend their time on other things they consider more important despite this being a basic feature of digital music management

is there any way to turn a topic into a Poll ?

Poll Options:
- Sonos should allow Searching by Contributing Artist
- Id rather Sonos spend their time on other things they consider more important despite this being a basic feature of digital music management

Poll can only be created by the author (or moderators) in the topic's original post

Please can someone find a way of getting this escalated. It is so frustrating, the artist is in the metadata, therefore it should be searchable!

I have spent literally weeks going through every compilation album I have adding the artist name into the track name

for example

Artist: U2
Song: With or without you
Album Artist: Various Artists

now becomes

Artist: U2
Song: U2 - With or without you
Album Artist: Various Artists

Then when I search by song or artist the song shows up, however I dont have countless artist tags cluttering up my music library.

Would be SO much easier for sonos just to update this. I've been amending ID3 tags for 2 weeks non stop. I'm about half way through.:@

Same here.
Sonos does not support compilation albums :(

Every track that is on a compilation album will not be found by the Search functionality