grouping by album artist - Android

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February 14, 2026
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The app on my phone is up to date and I can now save the queue to a playlist but I still cannot configure the app to sort my music library by album artist (which was supposedly reintroduced in the early December update).

Any thoughts on why this seems to be missing?

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Best answer by User117655

@Corry P sorting options have now arrived in Android... Thank you for chasing 👍

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MoPac

Headliner III

Was off subject in the last of my posts. As far as Album Artist is concerned I don’t think Sonos ever had that as a search category. They have Artist only. Some time ago there was an issue with compilation albums. Back then if there were 12 different artists in a compilation you got 12 albums. Sonos fixed that bug a long time ago. The way I tag compilation albums is Artist=the artist for that track. Album Artist=Various. The Sonos fix back then worked for that tagging description. I am on IOS.

User117655

Prodigy II

Was off subject in the last of my posts. As far as Album Artist is concerned I don’t think Sonos ever had that as a search category. They have Artist only. Some time ago there was an issue with compilation albums. Back then if there were 12 different artists in a compilation you got 12 albums. Sonos fixed that bug a long time ago. The way I tag compilation albums is Artist=the artist for that track. Album Artist=Various. The Sonos fix back then worked for that tagging description. I am on IOS.

Does not work for me... All compilations tagged as you describe except with 'Various Artists', ' Ministry of Sound'... ect.

Search from Android app for these values does not return any results. It used to before 'the change' and the Windows app always has and still does return results so... 🤷🏼‍♂️

A while ago support kinda 'didn't want to take it any further' and no amount of power down & re-index cycles resolve it.

(might try with one word Album Artist values though 🤔)

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