Sonos Controller - Duplicate Album Titles

Hi,

Here are the current duplicate titles that show in my Albums list:

The first three were ripped from CD, and the fourth was copied from vinyl.

I think those are the only ones I have right now.

But don’t waste your money - their ‘fame’ is fleeting… 😉

As a test, I removed those four albums from my music library and re-indexed.  Here is a new false duplicate that showed up after that:

Interesting to note that it was only listed twice. 

And just to confirm, I restored the four albums I had removed and re-indexed again.  Here is the above album now listed correctly:

fwiw, I don’t think this is a controller issue, I think it is the player firmware.

strangely, I get this issue only with grateful dead records ;-)

Indeed.  As a simple test, I made a trivial change to the name of one sub-folder.  Before and after:

I posted a little while ago about four false duplicate titles in my Albums list.  After making the above change and re-indexing, I still have four duplicates.  Three of them are the same but one from before is gone, replaced by another.

Specifically, ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ is no longer duplicated:

But this one is new:

Finally, just to confirm, I renamed those two subfolders back the way they were.  Here is the above album title, now listed correctly:

Been doing all the above stuff during breaks from working on income taxes. Will have to find some other break activity. 😄  Cheers!

Obviously, it’s super annoying when these kinds of regressions take so long to get fixed.

FWIW, I painfully checked the web controller and see the same four duplicate titles I have been posting about. But the fact that there is no Album Artist listed with each album title makes albums that happen to have the same title look like duplicates.

Not a fan of the web controller...

Painful is the way I would describe it too. It was obviously not designed for local music library use.

Well, it was designed that way originally, but in the last few years many new bugs have cropped up, and I think music library used to be a “primary use case” and now it is a “secondary use case”. Since most ppl (not me) use a streaming service of some sort.

What kind of bugs?  Asking just for awareness.

I agree with the thought that the music library is probably not much of a priority for them, and I’m starting to look elsewhere for an alternative.

And I do use a streaming service, but I’m not willing to part with the many vinyl albums I have copied, no longer possessing the originals, that are not, AFAIK, ‘commercially available’ on places like Pottyfi.  😮

For a while the library didn’t work at all with S2. Then there were bugs where songs on compilations would each come out as their own album. Now this duplicate album bug. I actually switched to SonoPad when they put out that version of the controller that didn’t work any more, and now almost never use the controller on ios. I do use the mac controller sometimes….