All songs in an album listed as separate albums

The new app has been slow to appear but Sonos support thinks it should have been everywhere yesterday.

80.10.06 (Android)

Release date: 15/10/2024

 It’s firmware causing this compilation issue.  The firmware fix is 16.4.2.

I still have the problem.  Each song in a compilation shows up as a separate album on Sonos, but not in Apple Music on my Mac.

Port:

Sonos OS: S2

Version: 16.4.2 (build 81158074)

Hardware Version: 1.29.1.9-1.2

Album has one album artist, mixed composer, mixed artist.

 Get the tagging program MP3 Tag and check to see that the Album Artist tag is the same for all tracks.  Should be something like Various Artists for compilation albums.    There is a setting in iTunes/Apple Music to have it look at the Album Artist tag, but I don’t use either Apple program so I don’t know about that setting.  Others here should be able to impart that information.

This continues to be an issue. It’s so ridiculous this has to be raised in a forum.

I absolutely cannot recommend anyone touching SONOS. What an absolute crap show this is turning out to be.

If your testing doesn’t cover this type of scenario, then shame on you.

Horrendous!

MoPac -

Thank you.  I’m having much more success using the program MP3 Tag.

I’m still puzzled, I thought I had made the changes using Mac’s Music program, but it didn’t match what MP3 Tag listed.  I didn’t try to verify if it was me or the Apple software, but changing to MP3 Tag did the trick.  What a pain.  ‘Tis often a challenge when software comes from 2 different vendors.  I’m not sure who is to blame this time, but things were working well with Sonos until the dreaded update that messed up everything so I suspect Sonos.

Many thanks!  I can search by album again!

I can report this issue is still NOT fixed. See below screenshot from the Max desktop app.

This is an album called “Tenor Arias”. It’s tagged as a compilation. Track artist is registered as the composer. What this broken software is doing is showing each different Track Artist as a separate album. I added this album some months ago and still haven’t listened too it because I simply couldn’t find a way of seeing the entire album without navigating via the folder location and given I have several thousand that ain’t straightforward.

 Make sure the Album Artist tag for that album is something like Various Artists.  The Track Artist tag as composer is fine.

With those still having a problem, have you re-indexed your library since the firmware update?