Same album name/different artists confusion

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
April 25, 2020
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This question has been around for several years and does not appear to have been resolved.

I discovered it last night with 3 of my albums named Maiden Voyage. A search for the by album name brings up one listing with all 3 albums’ tracks. If I search by artist, yes then only one of the albums appears.

Sonos it is time to address this issue.

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Best answer by John B

I asked about the field AlbumArtist, but no matter.

Sonos haven't done any development on the music library functionality in years, and I suspect that will remain the case, I am afraid.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

I just altered the album titles causing problems here by appending a bit of the artist to them. Fixed the Sonos issue and the artists that couldn’t think of anything better than “Best Of” as a title too.

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John B

Sonos can only deal with the metadata it is given. Nothing for Sonos to fix, IMO.

Just edit the tags, as @Stanley_4 suggests.

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CambridgehankAuthor

Avid Contributor III

Stanley and John, thank you both. But why must the user have to make changes, when other softwaree can interpret the metadata, Sonos should also.

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John B

Just had a further thought. What do your files have in the Artist field? And what about in Album Artist?

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CambridgehankAuthor

Avid Contributor III

The artist fields and album fields are complete and accurate. If I search by artist in Sonos app, the album appears correctly. It is when I search by album that the files become merged. This was discussed 7 years ago and again 11 months ago. I am not the only one with this problem.

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John BAnswer

I asked about the field AlbumArtist, but no matter.

Sonos haven't done any development on the music library functionality in years, and I suspect that will remain the case, I am afraid.

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CambridgehankAuthor

Avid Contributor III

That is what I answered, Album Artist is complete in all my files.

Thanks for stating that Sonos has not worked on the music library function.

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el.patron

Lyricist III