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kirkjh
Contributor I
July 27, 2024
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Track order broken due to multiple artists on an album

  • July 27, 2024
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I posted this in another topic, but it seemed that it required its own topic, as I couldn’t find any existing posts about it:

 

Yes, in addition to the multiple copies of albums, which appears to happen due to multiple artists on an album, the track listings are also screwed up due to multiple album artists.

 

And YES, I HAVE “SORT FOLDERS BY” SET TO “SONG NUMBER”.  Just wanted to clarify.

 

The track listings are now sorted by the “Artist” meta data and then the track number.  Here’s an example from my library from Tha Alkaholiks album “21 & Over” - this is the order of the tracks listed and the Artist metadata, so you can see how the sorting is broken by sorting on the Artist.  All the meta data for these tracks are fine - the track listing is displayed correctly in the Apple Music application, but here’s what Sonos displays for the track order:

 

Track 02 - Tha Alkaholiks

Track 03 - Tha Alkaholiks

Track 04 - Tha Alkaholiks

Track 08 - Tha Alkaholiks

Track 09 - Tha Alkaholiks

Track 07 - Tha Alkaholiks Feat. Field Trip

Track 01 - Tha Alkaholiks Feat. King Tee

Track 06 - Tha Alkaholiks Feat. King Tee

Track 05 - Tha Alkaholiks Feat. Loopback

Track 10 - Tha Alkaholiks Feat. Threat

 

SONOS, this is basic functionality.  WTF are you doing there?

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    Best answer by Corry P

    Hi @kirkjh 

    Welcome to the Sonos Community!

    Thanks for flagging - we are aware of this issue and are investigating, though we have no ETA on a fix at present. I will update this thread once a fix is in place.

    I hope this helps.

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    AlanButler
    Lyricist I
    September 23, 2024

    I too have this problem. Albums being sorted/displayed by track artist when it should be album artist. Resulting in albums with multiple artists but with the album artist set to “Various” or “Various Artists”  being listed multiple times when it should be listed only once

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