music library after latest app update

The new Sonos app is a disaster. I have spent hours trying to find my music library - but no luck. I wonder what other products are out there? I am inclined to give Sonos up altogether. A pity after so many years of happy usage.

I read somewhere in this thread that there was going to be an update to fix the issues from the last update today (5/21), but as of 4:30 eastern time this is not the case. 

I read that too. But it looks like Sonos prefers us to use streaming sites rather than our own (very expensive!) music libraries. I forgot to mention that one of my speakers dropped off the system entirely. Can’t get it back, even after factory reboot.

I have been unable to access my computer based music library since updating my controller 

I was in contact with Sonos help yesterday who told me that this was a known problem that the “techies” were trying to fix !?

I am running my Sonos on a MacBook Pro. OS sonoma 14.4.1

has anybody else been told this, I cannot see any other information about this problem 

Is there a way around the Sonos app to play music on the Sonos One from a Synology music library?

My problem is all my down loaded music has disappeared from my Sonos when I tried to do the up date, I have tried to reinstall but still can't get my music into sonos

So Sonos has gone  down the enshitification route and decided to Shaft their long serving customers to make more money , I used to be able to turn on my system chose some music from my library and play it but clearly no more and they want to sell me  £500 headphone they can go and boil their heads , I will go back to blue tooth and my UE Roll the sound may not be quite as good but I can listen to the music I have already paid for .

I have a Synology NAS with my Music Library (13.8K tracks, all FLAC, very obsessively tagged and Album Arted over about 15 happy years with Sonos) on it.  The Library contains 167 Compilation albums with some 3.6K tracks. 

Compilation albums have the Album Artist listed as Various Artists and each track has its own Artist.  Regular albums have the headline artist in both Album Artist and Contributing Artist fields, so the headline artists appear in both the Album Artist and Contributing Artist lists in the Sonos app, but artists who are only on Compilations only appear in the CA list.

It has always frustrated me that there has never been a Search facility for the CAs despite the fact that when the Library is indexed the CA list is always populated, which is indicated by the fact that, when you toggle the “View Contributing Artists” switch in the Music Library menu the CA list appears immediately without having to re-index.

I have, since the May 7 ambush, multiple versions of the Controller running as follows:-

Windows 10 PC  and Android Controllers 1-3, V16.1, build 78151030

Android Controller 4, V80.01.07-release+20240517 etc

And the Web App

For the sake of completeness, although I don’t think it is relevant to this discussion, all 6 of my speakers are on V78.1-52020.

With these three different systems running, some interesting differences have emerged which indicate that changes are being made in the code and that perhaps there is an opportunity while the big re-work is going on to influence the way the search process works.  Listing the variations may take a while, so bear with me please… I will use ABBA as an example because they appear at the top of the Artists list as I have two albums where they are the Album Artist and also some way down on the CA list as one of their tracks is on a compilation album and is tagged with them as the CA.

In V16.1 tapping on ABBA in the Artists list brings up the two Albums where they are the Album Artist, so the record is linked only to the Album Artist field in the Songs table.

In the CA list, tapping on them brings up their two albums plus the compilation album, so the Artists record in this list links to both the Album Artist and CA fields in the Songs table.  

In V80.x there is only one Artists list and no CA list.  It contains only those whose names appear in the Album Artist field of the Albums list. Tapping on ABBA brings up only their two albums, so here the Artists field is only linking to the Album Artist field in the Songs table. 

In the Web App there is only an Artists list.  However, that list contains both Album Artists and CAs and tapping on an Artist brings up all the albums on which they appear in either the Album or the Contributing Artist fields.  This is the same linkage as in the CA list in V16.1 and is a good outcome as it shows every Song attributed to the Artist although it would be nice to be able to search on it. 

The structure in V80.x is a backward step as the Artists list excludes those who only appear as CAs in Compilations; the only way to find them is to scroll through the Songs listing which does show the Artist for each track, but good luck with that when there are many thousands of tracks to scroll through.

At the moment the Search facility does not apply to the Music Library in either V80.x or the Web App, which appear to be the applications with a future.  My suggestions to the programmers who must be working towards the promised re-introduction of library search in July are:-

1  Have an Artists listing, as in both 16.1 and the Web App, which includes ALL artists.  Then have the option of selecting whether to show CAs as in 16.1 but don’t just disappear the CAs as in 80.x so you can’t find them anywhere except by doom-scrolling through the Songs list.

2  And this is the big one - when you re-code the Search function using the comprehensive list in 1 above, set it to match either the Contributing Artist field or the Album Artist field so you return all the Songs tagged to that Artist, compilation or not.  

You have all the basics for an effective Search function in the existing code, built up over the last 20-odd years of developing the Sonos controller app, but they have never quite jelled as they could have in this aspect.  When you bring back Search for local Libraries as has been promised, making these relatively minor adjustments would go a long way towards making us local library dinosaurs happy by improving our music listening experience.

Oh, and just give us our Album Art back while you’re at it!

Any thoughts on this topic from you other dinosaurs?

I can add my music library from my NAS on Mac and MacBook Air running Sonoma 14.5. But the very next day it is gone. I can add it again, but the next day… 

Update re SMBv2

I have updated my Buffalo Nas to SMBv2 using this article https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=24630.0
The latest App can now see under Your Sources my Music Library, this is what I expected to happen. However this change has caused another issue (which I think is related somehow).

The issue is I cannot add my NAS Music into the new app using a Mapped Network Drive, as 

a) I am unable to add a mapped network drive on the PC, I can map drives using the CMD prompt.
B) I cannot see any devices in the left hand explorer pane under network, I can however see all the media devices in the view panel, including the NAS, however they are seen as Twonky devices, Have I tweeked something on the NAS to make this so, I dont know.

I can connect directly to the NAS by putting the path into the Explorer window and I can access all the folders that are on the NAS.

Any help would be more than welcome