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IanTunnacliffe
Contributor I
February 21, 2024

Discrepancy between Folder View and Artist View

  • February 21, 2024
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I keep my music library on a NAS device. I have many albums on there that were ripped from vinyl LPs. As a result the track names don’t include numbers that are needed to ensure that when I play an album it plays in the order the artist intended. Recently I have started to edit the track names to include numbers at the beginning - just as they are when ripped from a CD. 

 

My problem is that the changes I have made are not appearing in the music library. If I look at the Folders view in the library all is well and my changes are there. If I navigate via Artist > Album > Tracks nothing has changed and when I play the album it still plays in alphabetical order. 

 

What do I need to do to reflect the new track names in the library? I have tried deleting the share and re-adding it which had no effect. I have tinkered with the setting for track ordering, also to no effect. What else can I try?

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controlav
controlav
Lead Maestro
February 29, 2024

My conclusion is that Sonos is holding data about my music library as it was before I started trying to fix it and that’s what it is using to create the artist>album view. BTW I also tried deleting the controller from my Mac and reinstalling it. It came up already configured which means that there is some configuration data on my Mac that I can’t see (yet). 

In a way I am quite enjoying this but it’s not exactly an endorsement of Sonos’s user friendliness.

The music library index is not stored on your Mac or your phone, it is stored in your speakers and replicated to all of them, same as all Sonos data.

If you want to remove the index and start over, remove the NAS from your Sonos configuration, and set it up again.

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    IanTunnacliffeAuthor
    Contributor I
    February 29, 2024

    Yes, I had arrived at that conclusion about the library being in the device. I have tried removing and replacing the music folder on the NAS  from the Sonos system several times to no avail. I have also tried deleting all the music from the NAS and replacing it. The last thing I tried was to do a factory reset on the one device I am using in my current home. Even that has not removed the old library. 

     

    Time to give up on Sonos and get something a bit more manageable.

    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    March 1, 2024

    Yep, great plan! Scrap the Sonos rather than the buggy NAS.

    Me, I’d say pick up inexpensive NAS known to work with Sonos or even better roll your own using a Raspberry Pi Zero and a thumb-drive or USB SSD.

    Several options suggested here:  Live Journal: Stan  or https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/

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