Apple Music Playlist Not Utilizing All Songs

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April 18, 2025
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I have an Apple Music playlist with approximately 1200 songs. When I shuffle play the list on Sonos, it only utilizes the first 200’ish songs (alphabetically songs beginning with A-E). How can I get Sonos to recognize and utilize the entire playlist?

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Best answer by controlav

Try the Desktop app or third party. The mobile app does have some weird size restrictions.

Sonos recommend no more than 500 items in a container (a playlist is a ‘container’), but the actual limit is the 10 second timeout to load it.

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GilbertGrapes

Lyricist II

I don’t think you can. Sonos app has some kind of song queue limit with some (all?) music services. It’s like it doesn’t load all the songs, at least that’s my experience.

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kevmccloskAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks for your response. It certainly appears that way.

I have an older speaker that does not support airplay so it appears that I am stuck unless I manually create a 1200 song Sonos playlist one song at a time (a ridiculous alternative)

I think I may have abandon Sonos. Great speaker but their app and features are way too buggy and limited

controlavAnswer

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Try the Desktop app or third party. The mobile app does have some weird size restrictions.

Sonos recommend no more than 500 items in a container (a playlist is a ‘container’), but the actual limit is the 10 second timeout to load it.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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