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Waugust
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April 26, 2026

Restriction on what YouTube music premium account will display in Sonos app

  • April 26, 2026
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I had to power cycle all my Sonos equipment to correct a “ghost” song that would start random play at various times of the day and night on one of more of my Sonos equipment throughout my house. Doing that solved that problem, but have now encountered another issue, one that is a major problem for me.

I redid my connection to YT Music Premium, and have found that Sonos now limits the number of albums I can see for any given artist. A good example is The Rolling Stones who have over 100 albums related to them on YT Music, to around 20 to 30. This eliminates my ability to brows their catalog within Sonos; a major disadvantage when using Sonos. Sonos AI says to enter the album I want to hear, and when it appears, I will be able to listen to it when I want. If I knew what that would be I wouldn’t be typing this now.

According to all sources of information I see, including Gemini AI, this is not a YT problem. It is a limitation of the Sonos app.

I see similar posts about this dating back two years ago with the Sonos customer service person telling the person who posted the question that this has been passed on to Sonos engineers to correct. Clearly that hasn’t happened.

Message to Sonos tech support: Are you working to correct this? If so, when do you expect a solution? Do you have a work-around for those of us who want to brows an entire artist catalog? If no to all of these, I will begin searching for a Sonos equipment replacement.

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    WaugustAuthor
    Avid Contributor I
    April 27, 2026

    I found a detailed description of the Android version. The list of what it does, does not mention the one thing I’m trying to resolve: seeing all artist catalogs currently available through YouTube Premium Music. I’ll give it a try, and post here when I know. Thanks for the suggestion, Stanley.

      WaugustAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      April 27, 2026

      Sorry for the delay responding, Stanley_4. I spent the last 3+ hours with Gemini attempting to redo the Sonos/YouTube Premium ‘handshake’ to see if that would resolve my Sonos issues. It didn’t, so I moved on to Phonos Ultimate. I believe I have most everything working there, but when I search an artist I get albums, songs, other artist takes on the artist I was searching, blogs, etc. I’d like to only see albums.

      Gemini said, “Scroll Down: After you search for "The Rolling Stones," try scrolling past the "Top Results" or "Songs." You should see headers like Albums, Singles, and Artists.”

      Nothing there and Gemini suggested “If your list is still messy, it's a great question for the Sonos Community "Third-Party Controllers" sub-forum.”

      I’m not even sure that is where I am now; searching on it, nothing came up, so I used your link Stanley. If I am in the wrong place, apologies. If this is the right place, all suggestions about how to do a Photos Ultimate search for just albums will be appreciated.

      Stanley_4
      Stanley_4
      Grand Maestro
      April 27, 2026

      My AI use is strictly for generating insane laughter (mine) at the answers (AI's) it provides.

      I think there is a reddit forum for controllers. Didn't the app or app store suggest one?

      WaugustAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      April 27, 2026

      I’ve had excellent results from Gemini premium for a number of things including and beyond Sonos. I don’t pay for it since I have Google cloud. But it and all AI is only as good as the detail I provide for it to respond to. Today’s Sonos/Phonos Ultimate exchange included a step-by-step explanation of how and what to check for both.

      The app store, didn’t or maybe I missed it, but Gemini did including a positive explanation of Phonos and detail about both the app and the founder. 

      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      April 27, 2026

      The author is a well respected member of this forum. 

      ​@controlav 

      AI still tends to regurgitate information it finds on the internet. It still hasn’t shown the ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect information. And for Sonos, there’s a lot of bad info out there. 

      Bruce
        Stanley_4
        Stanley_4
        Grand Maestro
        April 28, 2026

        Aside from wrong information, AI is programmed to provide answers and if it can't find one, wrong or right, it will make one up.

        Edit to add: Like the nonexistent forum above, "Sonos Community "Third-Party Controllers" sub-forum.”

        Even Google will return scary answers for "AI hallucinations" that are worth reading and understanding.

        WaugustAuthor
        Avid Contributor I
        April 28, 2026

        "It still hasn’t shown the ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect information."

        Kind of like us humans whose intelligence is supposedly not artificial.

        To each his own, right guys? 

        Anyway, thanks for the help today, much appreciated. 

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