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kbradsmith
Trending Lyricist I
May 22, 2020

Youtube Music not playing entire Library Songs - only select few

  • May 22, 2020
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Sorry, NOT playing entire Library Songs.

The YTMusic app on Sonos offers to stream my Library’s collection of Songs but only seems to be capturing a very, very small fraction of my entire Songs collection. Is there a way to be sure and get all my Songs shuffled through on the Sono’s app? The ‘Your Mix’ option is misleading as well. It creatively mixes in new ‘recommended’ songs which I’m not interested in so that’s not a solution. I want all my Songs streaming from my LIbrary collection, please, not some limited selection. Thanks, comments please. 

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    kbradsmithAuthor
    Trending Lyricist I
    June 11, 2020

    I'm speaking with them directly and will let you know. 👍

      Nate_11
      Contributor I
      June 12, 2020

      I’ve played around with this and did some extensive testing and can confirm that Sonos is only loading the 999 most recently added tracks tracks from your YouTube Music library. I have over 5,000 songs in my YouTube Music library and the order in which Sonos displays these is “recently added”. I went over to YouTube Music and loaded (albeit painfully) the entire page of my tracks. I found that the bottom track I was seeing in YouTube Music was not the same bottom track that was displayed in Sonos. I then did a CTRL+F and searched for the bottom track that was displayed in Sonos within YouTube Music and it was the 999th track. To verify that Sonos is only shuffling the most recently added 999 YouTube Music tracks I did a shuffle of my entire YouTube Music library within Sonos and while I still had the YouTube Music page open I spot checked around 50 or so tracks and they were all from the first 999 tracks in my YouTube Music browser. So, now I’ve done the testing here we know that Sonos is only loading the most recent 999 tracks added to YouTube Music and also only shuffling these tracks, but who is going to fix this? Is it on Sonos or YouTube Music?

        Jean C.
        Jean C.
        Retired Sonos Staff
        June 12, 2020

        Hello @Nate_11,

        As mention up-thread, our music partners determine how their content is accessed through the Sonos interface, so this limitation is out of our hands for the time being.   

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          Nate_11
          Contributor I
          June 12, 2020

          @Jean C. - thanks for the clarification! This means we’ll have to hound YouTube Music for this. The workaround for this is of course to cast the YouTube Music app directly to Sonos, but this doesn’t work. When you click cast withing YouTube Music Sonos speakers are not available, only Chromecast devices… This worked with Google Play Music, but not with YouTube Music. Is this also on YouTube Music to fix?

            Jean C.
            Jean C.
            Retired Sonos Staff
            June 12, 2020

            @Nate_11, it is indeed.

            You can learn more about which services allow direct control of Sonos from their app here. 

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              DCgal
              Trending Lyricist I
              October 17, 2020

              Switch to iBroadcast, it works so much better with Sonos than YTM and it is *FREE*!!!

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