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Sonos Music Folders - How Do I Stop Them Being Merged?

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October 6, 2024
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Hello & apologies if this issue has been covered previously - I searched as best I could & was not able to find anything similar or helpful ...

My music collection is stored (mostly in flac format) on a Synology NAS - My current problem relates to folders & sub folders - I will use a recent upload to try & explain …

I bought a CD Boxset which has 4x CDs - I created a folder with 4x sub-folders (CD1 CD2 CD3 CD4) in flac format to transfer to my NAS - Each sub-folder had the tracks listed in numerical order 01 Track Name 02 Track Name etc - I copied the folder to my NAS using my Windows laptop & then using the Sonos Windows App ran “Update Music Library Now” - The folder I had copied then displayed with the others from the Artist in question - However, instead of 4x sub-folders below the main folder all the tracks (& no sub-folders) appeared in the main folder? - They were listed numerically as 01 Track Name (from CD1) 01 Track Name (from CD2) 01 Track Name (from CD3) 01 Track Name (from CD3) and the same for 02 03 04 etc - Clearly I do not want to listen to the tracks in this order & want to listed to the tracks in the order they appear on their CDs?

I thought I could get round this & tried two different methods - First of all I went into each CD on the NAS & changed the numbers of each track from 01 to 28 - This made no difference on what Sonos displayed, which was exactly the same as it originally displayed (yes, I did update the music library again) - Finally I tried renaming all the CDs so that they were no longer sub-folders - Again, no different to what Sonos displayed either in the Windows App or on my Android phone?

Thank you for reading so far! - Can anyone offer a solution and / or tell me what is happening please?

Thank you
Paul

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Best answer by jreddaway

Hi @PaulBoy1313 , when you ripped the CDs did you set the tag Disc#s? Having this tag blank would, in my experience, result in the listing you're getting with all the T1s, then all the T2s etc.

You might like to go in with whatever tag editor you use and set the Disc# tag, at least for the first track from each cd, and see what happens. If you do the whole lot, you should see whole collection in the correct order as a single Album, as Sonos groups tracks with the same Album name together, then in Disc# then Track# order. It takes no notice of the folder structure you use.

Hope this helps.

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MoPac

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If your into classical tag obsession is a necessity.

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jreddaway

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Now that's a real rabbit hole you're opening up, @MoPac . I like to keep things simple - the Composer tag is my key thing with classical material.

Definitely not obsessed, but......

MoPac

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The reason I never used the Composer tag was when I started all this digital music stuff there was no Composer category on some of the controller software.

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jreddaway

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@MoPac

Iirc, you have tagged your classical material with the composer's name in the Track title. Have you used MediaMonkey? There's a very powerful RegEdit extension for it that I'm sure you could use to populate the Composer tag from the Title & then remove the name from Title. Once you get the hang of it, it's very fast indeed.

Perhaps something to play with during the long winter nights.....

MoPac

Headliner III

@MoPac

Iirc, you have tagged your classical material with the composer's name in the Track title. Have you used MediaMonkey? There's a very powerful RegEdit extension for it that I'm sure you could use to populate the Composer tag from the Title & then remove the name from Title. Once you get the hang of it, it's very fast indeed.

Perhaps something to play with during the long winter nights.....

No. I do not put the composer name in the track title. I put the composer’s last name in the Artist & Album Artist tags. This assures that no matter how controller software looks for the artist I will get the correct result.

I use DbPoweramp for tagging & JRiver Media Center for playlist creation.

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