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Rob E
Contributor I
August 13, 2020
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YouTube Music not listing full library

Hi,

 

I’ve recently switched over to YouTube music as Google are closing Play Music but an having issues accessing my full library through the Sonos Desktop or Mobile app. Both the Artist & Albums listings are truncated. When I access them as follows:

 

YouTube Music →  Library → Albums → Uploads (only lists down to albums starting with ‘R’, everything after unavailable.)

 

YouTube Music →  Library → Artists → Uploads (only lists down to artists starting with ‘J’, everything after unavailable.)

 

Does anyone else have this issue? Anything I can do to get Sonos to let me browse my Full Catalog again like I could with Play Music?

 

Cheers!

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    Xander P
    Xander PAnswer
    Retired Sonos Staff
    February 10, 2021

    Hi everyone, just to keep you all updated:

    YouTube Music have increased the container size (i.e. how many Artists/Albums/Tracks will appear in the list) from 99, to 999 - which should for most people resolve this issue.
    For those of you with larger libraries, you may still find that there are some results at the end which will not be shown - for these you can continue to use the Search function as previously, and it may be worth reaching out to YouTube Music again if this continues to be an issue.

    If you have not noticed more results being shown under YouTube Music in the Sonos app, it may be worth removing and then re-adding the account to your system.

    Remove a Music Service account

    Add a Music Service to Sonos

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    lpc
    Lyricist II
    February 24, 2021

    999 results is not enough. I need to browse through all my albums. Thanks Google.

    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 24, 2021

    999 results is not enough. I need to browse through all my albums. Thanks Google.


    Its laughable huh:

    Bug report: we have a limit of 99 albums.

    Google developer: fixed it! Limit is 999 now.

    I’ve been dealing with other issues with the YTM integration, eg “give me the first 100 tracks of a playlist” and it responds by returning all 300 and blowing the buffer size. Sigh.

    I think the YTM SMAPI service was written by a high school intern last year, who is back at school now. The server is running under their old, pre-Covid desk in Mountain View and has been forgotten by everyone.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    a9979
    Enthusiast II
    March 16, 2021

    Any word on if they will increasing from 999 limit? I think most people probably have over 999 songs. Or is it just some people who have the limit issue? Are there people that can view entire libraries beyond 999?

    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    March 16, 2021

    The only folks who could answer that intelligently are the engineers at Google/YouTube music. 

    Bruce
    chrisOV
    Enthusiast I
    April 19, 2021

    Now the only option I see is Albums. Great. Thanks YTM, it’s worse now. Wow talk about a terrible product to be hosted on Sonos. Please just give us back Google Play Music. 
     

    Sonos - Do yourself a favor and help out YTM or better yet set higher/stricter standards for your music providers. YTM is full of bugs and it reflects on your product. 

    I would absolutely second this. I believe Sonos should demand a certain basic level of compliance standards for any specific music service to work with their system.

     

    This should include displaying the full library (pretty basic), along with other basic requirements. Another annoyance with YTM is it won’t let you add your library to “My Sonos”! 


    Organizing albums by artist is another bugbear of mine which the Sonos app doesn’t do (but most of the respective music apps do). 

    ross.patterson
    Lyricist I
    April 26, 2021

    Thank you DCgal -iBroadcast works like a charm. And the company says the unlimited free library space will remain free forever. Perfect. 

     

    I’m gonna give iBroadcast a try, but I gotta laugh - the termination of a free storage service is what got us all into this mess :-)  I’ll believe “forever” when it lasts more than a few years :-)

    a9979
    Enthusiast II
    May 1, 2021

    I contacted YTM again (for the 300th time) and of course they say that they are still unable to reproduce the issue and there are no plans to expand the container size again. In the others, they really don’t care. My ticket has been open for nearly a year and I get the same unhelpful, canned responses each time I ask for an update, which I do monthly. 
     

    Sonos - Are you reading this? Don’t you care how your providers treat YOUR customers?

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