Sonos app does not play Youtube Music podcasts

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January 28, 2025
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Hi,

I'm joining the club of people whose Sonos app doesn't play podcasts on Youtube Music. This issue is also valid on Android12 (S10e), Android15 (P9P), Apple IOS18.3 (iPhone14) and Windows10.

I’m facing two problems:

1) the new episodes list is empty, but only on mobile apps (Android +IOS),

2) when I start a podcast episode in the podcast's library, it reads through the entire library and then says it can't play any of them randomly. This is also true for the Windows 10 version.

If I uninstall and reconnect to the YT Music service, it's fine for about 1-2 days, then wrong again.

Any solutions for that?

Thank you.

Ferenc

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Best answer by Corry P

Hi @Ugyes

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Sorry to hear of this issue you are having with Podcasts from YouTube Music on your Sonos system.

I have a YouTube Music account, but don’t listen to podcasts. I just added one to my Library, and the Podcast section then showed in Sonos, along with the new episodes list.

My new episode list is empty, just as you report. This is on Android.

I was able to play episodes of the programme without issue, however, and it has been quite a while since I removed YouTube Music from my Sonos system and added it again. This may change in a couple of days, of course - all I can say at the moment is that I will report that the new episode list is empty. If I can no longer play the episodes after a couple of days, I shall report that too.

If removing the service from your system and adding it again does help, that is all I can suggest you do in the meantime. Force-closing the app and opening it again might help, and it’ll be easier than removing the service if it does, but as you report having this issue on multiple controllers, I am in doubt.

I hope this helps.