How to get 2 CD sets to show up in the Sonos S2 app Music Library as 2 separate CDs?

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I currently own the Amp and have the S2 app installed on my Mac which is running 10.15.6. I mainly use the Amp and the Sonos S2 app to play music that is stored on my Mac.

I needed to add album art to my stored music so that it would show up in the S2 app Music Library. I discovered that the best way for me to do this was to find album art for each of my 400 albums (folders) and place each one called “folder.jpg” separately in each folder. That works great and the album art shows up in the S2 app Music Library. However, when I rip a 2 CD box set, only one album for it will show up in my Music Library, and all songs from both CDs are in it.

How do I get both albums from a 2 CD box set to show up separately as 2 CDs in the Music Library? I use an app called XLD https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/ to rip CDs as FLAC files to my Mac. It uses the freedb music database to tag the CDs that I rip.

One more question. I have many AD/DC albums stored on my Mac. When I go to the S2 app Music Library, half of the AC/DC albums are under “AD/DC” and the other half are under “AC-DC.” How can I get all to just show up under one name? Thanks.

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John BAnswer

Apart from the 'Folders' view itself, the folder structure does not affect the way Sonos organises artists and albums.

Sonos uses the tags (metadata) embedded in the files. So you would need to use an editor like mp3tag to make the artist name consistent. Some must be tagged AC-DC and others AC/DC at the moment. To be on the safe side edit the Artist tag and the Albumartist tag.

If you want the two CDs to appear separately then the album names need to be different in the metadata.

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John B

I am sure someone will know but Apple is an alien world for me I'm afraid. Google 'tag editor for Mac'

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SOLVED - I just wanted to give an update on this. Based upon everyones info, I used an app called Metadatics which is a music tag editor. I was able to correctly and completely tag my entire music library and everything now shows up correctly in the Sonos app. I would highly recommend Metadatics for anyone with a Mac who wants to organize their music.

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