YouTube Music playlist problem - only 100 songs?

  • 12 September 2023
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I have a 17 device setup and have extensive 300+ song playlists on YouTube Music.

They're leftover from the days when Google Play Music worked flawlessly with direct casting to Sonos, pre lawsuit days.

Until recently everything worked fine, but today I noticed that the playlists are limited to top 100 songs, the rest do not show up!

I deleted the service, reauthorized it, only to run into the same issue.

Any advice of how to fix this?


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Same issue here - went to my Youtube Music Playlist via the Sonos app and only saw 100 songs. Unbelievable.

Definitely a new issue as of a few months ago as never had an issue before.

Between this and the constant pushing to buy all new S2 devices by Sonos, it seems Sonos is just going downhill. It’s sad to see this has been an issue for months and all Sonos is doing is pushing the buck on Google.

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I can confirm that. Annoying :/

I have the same issue, appeared around a month ago.  Sonos say it's YouTube, YouTube say it's Sonos.  The customer suffers.

I spoke with YouTube already and they’ve said they’ve extended the playlist to 999. The issue is on Sonos end. 

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I spoke with YouTube already and they’ve said they’ve extended the playlist to 999. The issue is on Sonos end. 

Um whoever you spoke to has no idea what they are talking about. Size limit is 100% determined by he music service, YTM in this case.

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Want to keep this thread alive as the issue persists.

 

Is there a solution on the horizon?

 

I have a $4000+ set up with limited functionality.

I now have more than 100 songs on using the Sonos app with my YT playlist.  But it seems to be the same 100 songs.  So the limit was 100 now I have more but it's the same 100 songs repeated? (each song is on the playlist two or three times)

Let's keep this thread going…

Same thing happened here. I've been using the S1 app for yrs and in the last 2 months my 200 song playlist just shrunk to 100. The weird thing is when I hit shuffle in the S1 app all my songs play... I just can't purposely pick the songs I cannot see. 

As my playlist grows all my favorites are the newest downloads so I'm stuck with a song I added a yr or 2 ago.

Help pls

So I found a way around this.  Create a Sonos Playlist, add music, navigate to your YTM playlist, click the three dots top right and add to playlist.  Worked for me, hope it helps others.

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The problem still persists.

 

Sonos, any solution?

 

Thanks.

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Issue still remains for me.

I still have only roughly 100 songs showing up in the YTM Playlist in Sonos App.

 

Sadly no improvement until now.

YT Music playlists I create in my laptop do not appear in Sonos app, the ones I create in the mobile app do appear.  I prefer creating my playlists in laptop, is there anything I am not doing right in the laptop?

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Hi @lithdoc,

I’ve seen issues with YouTube Music failing to show more that 999 songs, but not 100. 

You’ve performed what I would recommend to try to resolve the issue, so I would recommend you reach out to our support team for further assistance, as they have the necessary tools available to troubleshoot this issue with you.

I hope this helps!

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Hi @lithdoc

Thank you for sharing your interaction with our support team. I’ve found your case in our system and have forwarded it to the relevant team who may email you regarding this using the email linked on your community profile if that is fine with you.

I would recommend keeping your case number handy and I will let you know if I hear anything.

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Hi @lithdoc

Thank you for sharing your interaction with our support team. I’ve found your case in our system and have forwarded it to the relevant team who may email you regarding this using the email linked on your community profile if that is fine with you.

I would recommend keeping your case number handy and I will let you know if I hear anything.

Another thing I noticed is that after deleting and adding YouTube Music again is that the icon is now blank.

I'm thinking something has changed on YTM end and Sonos is unaware.

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Just adding that I am having the same problem with YT music playlists.

The same thing happened to me. I just noticed it today. I have a couple of Playlists on YouTube that are 100+ songs and now I'm really sad I can't access the entire list. 

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Had a wee chat with support earlier on this one. They obviously haven't figured this out yet. 

One way or another YT Music integration could be improved. Sort out your issues with Google and bring back Casting for starters. A half baked effort at supporting a service is worse than non at all.

So I just added the 101 track to my play list on YouTube music and it didn't show up in the Sonos app. I went back to YouTube and deleted the first song in the playlist and the last song I added showed up in the Sonos app. I have 22 sonos devices and a Roam, so 23. The software experience has gotten very bad. If I hadn't sunk so much money into the hardware, I'd sell it all... The Sonos experience used to be enjoyable, professional, and consistent. It's none of those anymore.  JB

So I just added the 101 track to my play list on YouTube music and it didn't show up in the Sonos app. I went back to YouTube and deleted the first song in the playlist and the last song I added showed up in the Sonos app. I have 22 sonos devices and a Roam, so 23. The software experience has gotten very bad. If I hadn't sunk so much money into the hardware, I'd sell it all... The Sonos experience used to be enjoyable, professional, and consistent. It's none of those anymore.  JB

This must be down to a Google/YTM limitation, as I can happily add larger playlists to play on my Sonos speakers via Amazon Music, Apple Music and Deezer. So it’s not something that Sonos appear to be limiting, otherwise I would expect to see that same limit applied across the board to all the services in their App.

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Seems like Sonos is aware but is quiet.

Offering customers "to unlock free shipping" seems to be the priority.

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“New” Sonos app update - the same limit of 100 applies - they’re clearly aware of this issue, and now those 100 songs just appear in perpetuity, took me a while to catch onto it.

 

So it is even worse, as it’ll fool you into thinking as if you’ve got all the songs!

Same issue here. This is happening on both S1 and S2 app. Spoke to Sonos support with case # 05341635. They brushed it off as something on YT’s end. This is extremely frustrating. Now you can see all the playlist when you look at the queue but not on the main page. Why can’t Sonos and YT communicate on this and have it resolved. This is happening recently so obviously someone here has changed a setting. 

What does YouTube say? They set these numbers on their own servers, they aren’t set by Sonos. 

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YouTube is pointing finger at Sonos.

 

I have a feeling that the whole issue is the ongoing lawsuits and their reversals.

 

Sonos will not reach out to YouTube or Google to settle this issue as there are probably more underlying things at hand.

 

What's concerning the most is lack of any official statement from Sonos. As far as YouTube is concerned, the playlists are full and fully existing on their end.

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