Music Library Compilation Albums are fragmented

 Why I don’t use iTunes.

Thanks.  Appreciate that others may not use iTunes, but many do.  Sonos had no problem recognizing compilations, which are specifically tagged.  And then it didn’t.   If there is someone on this forum who can answer the question I posed - and that Phil apparently posed four months ago - we would appreciate it.   Thanks.  

 There are some tagging software that has a check box that, when checked, marks the album as a compilation.  What I don’t understand is how does software know an album is a compilation without that check box or without the Album Artist being the same for all tracks.

 Maybe someone can enlighten me.  
 
 The only thing I can think of is if the software accesses a database of known compilation albums and knows then how to organize those albums.  How did Sonos do it with the pre May 16.x app?

iTunes has such a box, and Sonos used to recognize it.  It does not do so now.  MoPac, the question I am now focused on answering is not why or how (way above my pay grade) but whether Sonos is still trying to solve this problem.  If anyone, including folks at Sonos, knows the answer, please weigh in.  Thank you.

Indeed, I started digitalizing my collection in the ipod era. Itunes was the only option. Starting from scratch or editing will take ages.

I started way-back-when also.  mostly been using DbPoweramp to rip.  In the DbPoweramp settings I set only the tags I want filled in.  Before DbPoweramp I used JRiver Media Center for ripping.  Still use JRiver for playlist creation then I edit the playlist to use “relative path” statements which allows the playlist to work in any location.  For downloads all the tagging was done manually with the DbPoweramp tag editor.  Download tags are all over the map, particularly classical tags.

Never liked iTunes because of the tag issues with WAV files and the lack of support for FLAC files.

Yes… tagging is a pain in the butt.  I tagged a friend’s 2TB library which took around a year.  Of course I only did a little at a time when I had a half hour or so of free time.  During that year+ I had use of his Melco N1 so not a total pain in the butt.

Same issue, spent time with support in November who could not fix it, gave me a case number and referred to specialist support who told me a known issue for some users and they are looking at it.

New release deployed but still the same issue……...

I also have been fighting this problem. I am moving away from iTunes (for many reasons) and recently got a Synology NAS working. I found a software program called “bliss” which is a very advance tool for handling tagging and album art. It costs money but not much. Perhaps there are other free tools. I have found it very helpful. For example, I was able to find missing cover art and convert them all into the same format and pixel size so they display quickly in Sonos. In this case I can apply a rule and make sure compilations are properly tagged and inspect specific albums to see what the Album Artist is set to. And if it is set to “Various Artist”. I’ll try to report back my findings, but at least I don’t have to individually tag my library. 

I have tried bliss, but it doesn’t add the tag album artist. Still hoping for a solution!