Include Contributing Artists field in search!

This really needs to be fixed. Nearly 50% (6000) tracks in my library are from various artist compilations. It is ridiculous that I cannot access these 6000 tracks by performing an artist search. It is such a pain to scroll through my huge "contributing artists" list to find what I am looking for. It should just work. It should group the results into two sections. The first section should show the albums by the specified artist. The second section should show the various artist compilation albums that feature the specified artist. In this view selecting the compilation album should just show the track(s) on the compilation by the searched artist. I shouldn't have to use my iPad (with iTunes Match enabled) to find out which compilations feature an artist that I am looking forward. This is a major flaw with search and I can't believe more people haven't complained about this. I can only assume Sonos do not test their system with various artist compilations!!! Please fix Sonos. This is almost as ridiculous as no DTS support for the play bar. (I'm one of the thousands of users that will only consider a PlayBar if DTS is added)

Please fix this major issue in the new Version 5.0 controller that is currently in beta. I think a substantial redesign may be required to support multi-artist compilations properly but it really does need to be sorted. There isn't a single indexing mode available that works as required for both grouping compilations and albums by album artist. Not being able to search the contributing artists view is a major flaw in an otherwise fantastic system. Being a developer I wish I could just walk into Sonos and help them fix this major flaw. I know that such an issue would not get signed-off by the testers in the IT department that I work in. Please can we have some aknowledgment from Sonos that although online services are getting very popular that doesn't mean that the issues with local based music should be ignored. The same issues apply to 'multi-artist compilations' in the Amazon Cloud Player and I suspect other online services too. Sonos need to look at the big picture surrounding multiple-artist compilations and come up with a consistent solution for both local music and online services.

In the public beta 5.0 the term "Universal Search" has been coined. For the time being this terminology is greatly exaggerated, for the term "universal" in my mind implies that the user can search in the category 'contributing artists' - which sadly isn't the case. If the user even isn't permitted to search his local music collection, why then use the term "Universal Search"?

Horrible! +1

Are there any official statements to this? As usually, I couldn't find out if thats on the list to be fixed or if it's technically not possible, so we don't have to wait and discuss. I dislike this situation.

Well, having a party without this "feature" (or better, with this bug) is no fun. It annoys me for years.

I'm disappointed by Sonos. This and other basic "features" are postponed for years, and development goes into another direction. Sonos started great but failed to get rid of basic problems, and is now focussing on streaming services or new design. Maybe it's us old guys using a file to play music from that do not fit with Sonos anymore.

I do not understand, why it is not available and Sonos only focus on the online-systems and not on all (old) users, who use Sonos with a local database.

I missed the search (or better universal search, wich lists artists and contribution artists) for year, as well the browsing/jumping via artists/contributing artists via i-Feature, e.g. list all songs from (contributing) artist, ...

I don't think, that this is impossible and a basic function of other music software, ...

New Version, same problem. Years over years over years.

I agree, it's disappointing.. There have been made no additional features for the whole media library function for years. The missing search for con.artist is one of the most arguing things...

+1 I am a new user and thought it strange I couldn't find an artist i could swear was in my library.  Now I know where it went.  Please fix.

New Sonos user. Agreed with all the comments above. This should not be complicated.

Surely this is getting embarrassing for Sonos now. In addition to Andronos on Android, the 3rd party iPad app Sonopad has also recently been updated to include Contributing Artists when searching the local library. C'mon Sonos. Pull your finger out on this! With your resources, how hard can it be, when two separate third party indie developers have already cracked it.