Contributor I

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Music library compilation issues and Alphabetical indexing

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 16, 2024
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I keep getting conflicting messages and stories with the following issue. On my music share some albums (they are compilation or what the system defines as that) show up in strange ways :
For example:
Album x with tracks 1-10 will show up 10 times with one track in each album.
Or it will show up 10 times with more than one track in random order. Or it will show up blank

Another thing that is not mentioned by Sonos is whether they will put back alphabetical indexation. With 2000 albums, it’s virtually impossible to browse otherwise.

Non of these issues are mentioned on any of the information that Sonos give out about updates, present and forthcoming. Sonos support up top tier 2 sometimes say it is an issue sometimes not. So I would like to know if this is being looked into and something might be done. I use the system to play my music and with these problems it is virtually unusable.

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Best answer by orzel

Thanks - in advanced settingsI moved to group by album artists and it started working . I use the apple music app. And that worked but my share does not use the same library and it’s difficult a. Is there some software that i can do it with multiple albums?

controlav

Lead Maestro

More detail about the mis-indexing can be found here:

https://github.com/amp64/sonosbugtracker/issues/7

The lack of alpha jump is described here:

https://github.com/amp64/sonosbugtracker/issues/9

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

MoPac

Headliner III

The Album Artist tag needs to be “Various Artists” or something similar for all tracks in a compilation album. The Artist tag would be the actual performer.

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orzelAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks but that does not work

MoPac

Headliner III

What software are you using to tag albums?

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orzelAuthorAnswer

Contributor I

Thanks - in advanced settingsI moved to group by album artists and it started working . I use the apple music app. And that worked but my share does not use the same library and it’s difficult a. Is there some software that i can do it with multiple albums?

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

I use EasyTag, but on Linux, not sure if it is an option for you.

The multiple track or album edits are a huge timesaver.

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orzelAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks I used audio ranger and seem to have solved the problem. Lucky I am retired so can spend time on out!it

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