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Isherer
Contributor I
July 29, 2026

Indexing NAS Library not working

  • July 29, 2026
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This has been a problem since I bought my Sonos system a year ago. I have ca 500 albums on my NAS which equates to about 12,000 tracks. Many of these albums are combination albums with many tracks and all different artists. Sonos splits the album into individual tracks when searching under albums (that is ridiculous imo). Ok so recommendation is to equalise the artist names under, say, Various. I do this using  tag editor. Reindexing makes no difference. The original indexing is retained. I have tried removing the music library path and reentering. Still the same. I have tried removing all speakers from system and re adding. Just the same. How on earth is it possible to reindex my library? Where is this old data being stored? If I can delete it then it would have to take revised info from the NAS.

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kdowling
kdowling
August 3, 2026

Here’s another thread related to the same issue that I posted above:

 

MoPac
MoPac
Headliner III
August 3, 2026

Have you tried what Stanley_4 suggested:

Creating an empty share and indexing it, then switching back should work.

That would force a rebuild of the Music Library index. If you are still seeing this problem after that, is it possible you are actually seeing this?:

 

It would be nice to have the option to “Rebuild” the library similar how it’s done in a BlueSound system.  This would clear the data and start the index from scratch.  I occasionally have to do this with LMS ( Lyrion Music Server ).  Corrects most indexing issues.

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