YouTube Music song skip after pause

I’ve tried, but can’t reproduce this on my own system here at home with the YouTube Music service. It simply resumes from the paused track position. I’m using an iPad for pausing/starting the music - Are you leaving it for any particular amount of time before resuming? Does the same thing happen with any other streaming services?

My first initial thoughts are, if all devices are running on WiFi, with no Sonos products wired, to perhaps try a different ‘fixed’ 2.4Ghz non-overlapping wireless channel (using channels 1, 6, or 11) on your router and perhaps set a channel width of 20MHz. Also, if any Sonos devices are cabled to the LAN to ensure the SonosNet channel in the App network settings is set at least 5 channels away from your chosen router channel and see if those simple changes improves things for you.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Usually this happens when I pause at the beginning or middle of the song, if I pause it with less than 1 minute, it works OK. (This tells me is a possible cache issue). 

I use an iPad or Android phone to play/pause, or directly from the speaker play/pause button, same issue.

This only happens with the YouTube music (where I have my music collection). I haven’t noticed this with any other service, (but I rarely use any other service).

One set of speakers is 5 ft away from the WiFi router, (direct view)

I will try your recommendations, try with a wired connection, or changing the wifi channel.

Do you know if using a sonos boost will help? ( I found a used one over the weekend on FB).

Regards,

Carlos S.

A Sonos speaker wired to the router will work and perform the same function as a ‘Boost’, so perhaps try that first, just as a temporary measure and see if it solves your problem. Then perhaps look to purchase the Boost afterwards, if you think you need it.

Meanwhile I will go test this issue again, as in my earlier tests I didn’t let the playing YTM track run past a minute before pausing/restarting the track, so I will go try this again and will let you know what I discover.

Okay to attempt to try and cover all bases, I’ve just tested this again at a number of different pause-times along different YTM tracks.

• Less than 30 seconds
• 30 second to 1 minute
• 1 minute to 2 minutes 
• 3 minutes +
• less than 1 minute from end of track

Using an iPad Pro controller App, I just paused the music for 1 minute, 3 minutes …and 5 minutes + I also let the iPad controller go into standby with screen off (just on the one occasion).

On resuming the track, (and giving the App a few moments to wake up in the case where iPad fell into standby), the paused track still resumes just fine. The music didn’t skip to the next track in the queue.

So I’m still thinking this issue might ‘perhaps’ be a network issue of some sort, rather than the App, or YTM service.

I hope that helps a little further.

Note, I also tried different sized queues (upto 1000 tracks) to see if that might make a difference aswell, but the paused YTM track still resumed okay, so I don’t think it’s a queue-size issue either. 

Thanks @Corry P ,

I will get in touch with the Technical support team.