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Timpan1
Enthusiast I
June 20, 2020

YouTube Music - not amused

  • June 20, 2020
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I have just transferred my personal music library from Google Play Music to YouTube Music. After adding YouTube Music to my Sonos app I was horrified to find that I can no longer play my personal music library unless I am prepared to use the ‘Premium’ version of YouTube music. What is going on here and who’s responsible? I had no problem playing music from my personal music library from Google Play Music on my Sonos. 

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    bwcanes
    Lyricist III
    October 7, 2020

    I did send feedback to You Tube Music, which is owned by Google.

      gsw7109
      Avid Contributor I
      October 31, 2020

      Youtube music on sonos is absolutly horrible. Its a mess. Your uploaded tracks are all in alphabetical order in the artist section. You can’t listen to any particular album by an artists if you have multiple albums by that artist.  The best music app for sonos is Amazon. EVERYTHING is in alphabetical order, All my music ithat I own is on my hard drive so I’ll just use the sonos app for that. I hate YOUTUBE MUSIC. I cancelled my subscription. Spotify only shows albums and not artist on Sonos. 

        P Shipton
        Lyricist I
        November 9, 2020

        YTM is a complete rip off … does anyone here know how to download music out of you tube music? .. google music manager appears defunct

         

        thanks

        Smilja
        Smilja
        November 9, 2020

        @P Shipton, Your own uploaded music files (YTM Free) or tracks from the streaming catalogue?

        »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
        P Shipton
        Lyricist I
        November 9, 2020

        My own music uploaded from google play.

        thanks

        paul s

        sonos-nz
        Lyricist III
        November 12, 2020

        Youtube music on sonos is absolutly horrible. Its a mess. Your uploaded tracks are all in alphabetical order in the artist section. You can’t listen to any particular album by an artists if you have multiple albums by that artist.  The best music app for sonos is Amazon. EVERYTHING is in alphabetical order, All my music ithat I own is on my hard drive so I’ll just use the sonos app for that. I hate YOUTUBE MUSIC. I cancelled my subscription. Spotify only shows albums and not artist on Sonos. 

        do you know if you can cast from Amazon app (on android) to Sonos players .. thats my main requirement, any local device on the network can cast to a Sonos with its own music players account, not trigger music from the Sonos app itself (which is a bad experience)

        just terminated TY music family account as its just soo fail.  GPM was generally ok 

        RSUK
        Contributor I
        January 14, 2021

        You can solve this problem one of two ways:

        1. Use the iBroadcast solution. Works in the same way as GPM you upload your music, it indexes and you have Android apps etc to play your music on. The file handling and cover/track manipluation is very good, plus it is free.

        But the big plus is that it is supported by Sonos, you might need to search in the development section to pick this up in the Sonos desktop app but it is all documented if you search.

        If you use Google Home it does not support direct play, iBroadcast tell me they are not being offered the SDK by Google to develop this, no surprise there (Bad Google).

        1. The other way round it is to use a router that supports a USB memory stick so you can share files on the network. I’m doing this for my father to keep it simple. Again the Sonos library can be pointed to this USB and you can copy all your music to the USB from your PC etc. Done this as well all working great, listening to router/USB stored music on sonos as I type this.

         

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