Why would an Amazon Music song display art in one part of the Sonos app, but not another? As I mentioned, it generally fails to display (on certain songs/albums) only on the “My Sonos” main screen (the screen you see when you press the STAR button. ![]() This is from songs added to My Sonos from Apple Music and/or Amazon Music directly.Īlso, keep in mind that the art displays correctly in a track list, in a play list and while the music is playing on the “now playing” screen in the Sonos app. To clarify, the album art is NOT from my own Music Library, so I don’t control the sizes or types of images. If you need help with any other information, please be sure to let us know. Missing music library album art in the Sonos app. You may also find this support document-link worth a read. If both embedded image and folder.xxx exist, Sonos will use the embedded image.JPG & GIF supported for folder.xxx (only one folder.xxx file per folder).JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP supported for the embedded images.album cover should be up to 320kb in size on iOS and Android (with no resolution limit).Thanks again for your patience.This is really odd that the album art is not showing properly in your Sonos application. I basically shot my self in the foot because I tried too many ways to store the music, rippers, devices. I did not realize how OLD this old machine was! We are talking 10 years old! Time got away from me!! So I suspect it’s wireless card (or drive) could not handle the reads. I chose Ubuntu because it’s free and lightweight. My original idea was to resurrect this machine as sort of a media server. I was actually sharing the files from an old laptop running Ubuntu 19.10 at the time I believe and not the thumb drive. I got the FLAC files to stream from thumb drive but it’s capacity is too low. Side note: I retraced my steps and the problem with the FLAC files originally was not the thumb drive share or my network. I did the ripping with dbPowerAmp and like the software very much. UPDATE: got FLAC files to play on Sonos by setting up my NAS again. ![]() Using SonosNet or WiFi, you may have problems.įLAC to store/archive and transcode to a lossy format for usage. If you have all wired speakers, it shouldn't be an issue. However, Sonos support cautions against using it because the sheer data size is so much larger than lossy formats and that makes keeping everything in sync more difficult. On the Sonos side, yes FLAC is officially supported. Those will give enough information for any programs to give you a good library that's well presented and searchable. At the very least you'll want artist, album, year, track number, track name and possibly genre. ![]() Best tagging program I've used that gives me plenty of control, yet is automated enough for my tastes. The Godfather on Windows allows you to pull from various sources. Why the tilde? I've never seen it used in artist, album or track name. I use "Artist\Year ~ Album\Track Number ~ Title". Keep lossless so you don't have to rip again in the future transcode to lossy for device usage.ĭecide on a naming convention for your files. FLAC is pretty much the standard unless you're on a Mac, then it's ALAC. Some drive are just better at handling marginal discs. ![]() Less important these days, but a good drive can still be the difference between a rip failing and succeeding. Whatever you do, and you won't want to do this twice, do it right the first time.
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