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Android app does not display music library album art

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November 1, 2024
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Hi, my first post and previous threads on this topic were either old or had comments turned off so here goes. Although working well, none of my collections album art shows on the Android app. The build is 80.11.33 and previous posts/comments seem to infer that rolling back to a previous version would solve the issue. So my question is: has anyone solved the issue or is reverting to a previous build the answer? I suppose if the answer is yes then the remaining question is how is this achieved?

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Best answer by kpr

From Nick Millington’s October Office Hours answer in Reddit:

”As another example which we haven’t talked about before, the reason why album art for local music libraries doesn’t work on Android is because we’re now using the built-in Android HTTP client, and its behavior (enforced at a very low level) is to block connection to non-SSL resources, and the Sonos players don’t serve album art for songs in a local library over SSL yet.”

See the second to last answered question.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1gfuok4/comment/lurr6on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Mike19712

Lyricist II

I see the issue listed on the tracker board under the heading “coming soon”. They are obviously aware of the issue, so unfortunately waiting to see how quickly (if ever) the problem is resolved is all we can do at this time. I am not going to sell my current system, but I certainly am not adding any new hardware to it and I have stopped recommending Sonos to others.

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essenby

Enthusiast I

. . . . Seems SONOS has made iPhone it’s priority.

I don’t think that is the case. I have iPhone and iPad, both with the lates update from 15 November and I can’t eeven access my Music Library from either. Windoew app sees it perfectly and the mobile devices can even initiate a re-scan and when I watch the NAS connections I can see the devcices accessing the tracks. Ic an even control music which was selected using the Windows app, But on the mobile devices the “Your Sources” option steadfastly refuses to show me the Music Library 😓

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jmw_sono

Chromatic Producer I

Six months later and still no media library cover art on Android. Owner of 20+ Sonos devices and probably would be upgrading two Playbars to Arc Ultras, adding another Sub, and getting the Ace headphones. Guess these guys don't want more business. I'll be sticking with my existing Sonos equipment because of this app fiasco. Yesterday used my Sonos speakers all day long using the Windows App. No issues. Grouped about 10 speakers together to play Christmas music thru house for wife. Played all day flawlessly as I picked various Spotify artists. Went out to living room to watch TV so pulled out Android phone to pause the grouped speakers. After the app did its little search I could pick the grouped speakers but app says no music playing. I have to get up and go to a speaker in the group and hit pause. Beautiful, not!

Playbar(2) Sub(1) Play:5(2) Play:3(6) Play:1(5) Connect:AMP(3) Sonos:AMP(5) Move(1)

Vegeta_UK

Avid Contributor I

Ok, so.... Latest update has enabled album art MOSTLY. Like, if you access the music library by album or artist, all seems fine.

However, if you view it by folders things aren't quite so good. The art shows up for individual files once you have navigated to and selected an album, but does not appear in either the album list OR as the main art when within the album (see images).

Is anyone else experiencing this, or am I the only one who browses by folder??

Playbar // Beam (G1) // Sub (G2) // 9 x Play:1 // 1 x One // 2 x Play:3 // 1 x Play:5 (G2) // Boost x 3 // Roam x 1//Ray x 1

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Mike19712

Lyricist II

I see what you are saying and I am experiencing the same situation on my Pixel phone. Fortunately, I usually look for music through either Albums, so for me personally, things are in much better shape!

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HedgeEnder

Lyricist I

Album Art still not showing on my Andriod after recent update. I deleted and re-added the music folder on my Desktop but artwork not displayed. Am I doing anything wrong?

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olive

Contributor I

Similar experience here. Art is showing when selecting the files, but not while playing. Most of my music is in lossless flac. I find that art that is embedded in MP3s works, but art stored as JPG in the folder is not

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jreddaway

Renowned Enthusiast I

I just posted this elsewhere but can’t work out how to set up a link to that post, so apologies for repeating it here. My (Android) experience is positive, but their testing/quality control just keeps on letting things slip through and here’s another…

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Great, as an Android user, to get my Album Art back! Not only is it back, but I think the Library probably scrolls quicker than it did under the old app, so good work by the developers. Thanks, guys.

However, things are still not quite there yet.

Where Songs within an Album have different Album Art (so this is another angle on the old compilation albums issue), the Art shown in the Library listing is not the Folder.jpg you would expect it to be. Neither is it the Art from Track 1 of the album, which would be the logical second option.

What shows up is the Art from the Song whose Artist’s name comes first in alphabetical order within the Album!

This makes no sense at all, but can probably be sorted out pretty easily in the code. Any bets on how long it might take?

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