music library search misses songs

This will be linked to the fact that sorting ignores any "The" in front of a band/artist name. This makes sense because else The "t" section of the list would be over represented.

This will be linked to the fact that sorting ignores any "The" in front of a band/artist name. This makes sense because else The "t" section of the list would be over represented.
As you explain it, it makes sense indeed that the "the" was omitted during the indexing. Thanks for pointing me out.
However, I think that the search function should be smart enough to know that the "the" could have been omitted during indexing so it should search for "%artist%" or "%the artist%"

This will be linked to the fact that sorting ignores any "The" in front of a band/artist name. This makes sense because else The "t" section of the list would be over represented.

Hi Stuart_W,
I saw you're on the Sonos community for quite some time, are you able to handle compilation albums or do you have the same problem?

This thread has some useful discussion on this topic

https://en.community.sonos.com/music-services-and-sources-228994/how-to-organise-compilation-album-id3-tags-help-6734932

ultimately everybody see there albums and music differently. So whatever I see as a requirement you may have a different thought.

An other search that does not work:
the song's title is tagged: "Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)"
When I search songs (Android app) for "waves" -> No hits
When I search songs (Android app) for "waves (" -> finds the song.

Not sure whether there will be a logical explanation for this one?

Hey vincent, how's it going? Have you been looking into this a bit more?

There's no major reason that the "(" is needed at the end of that search string. Odds are, there's something else getting in the way. Something to work with, is that when you start to search using a mobile app, the controller is doing Universal Search, so sometimes it takes a while to populate. It's possible that "waves" is pulling up too many sources, or taking too long to search that it's failing to populate without additional search data.

When you go to search, if you were to add that space, would it pull up the results?

Can you run a search for that track and when it does pull up, select the gray "more" option if it shows up. Then change the search string to "waves" and see if it finds that track. That "more" searches just the one service you selected, as opposed to all of your sources.