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Trending Lyricist I
September 11, 2023

YouTube Music playlist problem - only 100 songs?

  • September 11, 2023
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I have a 17 device setup and have extensive 300+ song playlists on YouTube Music.

They're leftover from the days when Google Play Music worked flawlessly with direct casting to Sonos, pre lawsuit days.

Until recently everything worked fine, but today I noticed that the playlists are limited to top 100 songs, the rest do not show up!

I deleted the service, reauthorized it, only to run into the same issue.

Any advice of how to fix this?

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46 replies

lithdocAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
October 31, 2023

Seems like Sonos is aware but is quiet.

Offering customers "to unlock free shipping" seems to be the priority.

Avid Contributor II
November 3, 2023

So I found a way around this.  Create a Sonos Playlist, add music, navigate to your YTM playlist, click the three dots top right and add to playlist.  Worked for me, hope it helps others.

Lyricist I
November 13, 2023

Let's keep this thread going…

Same thing happened here. I've been using the S1 app for yrs and in the last 2 months my 200 song playlist just shrunk to 100. The weird thing is when I hit shuffle in the S1 app all my songs play... I just can't purposely pick the songs I cannot see. 

As my playlist grows all my favorites are the newest downloads so I'm stuck with a song I added a yr or 2 ago.

Help pls

Lyricist I
November 20, 2023

Me too. Youtube didn’t cut the song limit in playlist. Only Sonos limit the showing of my playlist. I believe Sonos should do some research and fix it.

controlav
Lead Maestro
November 20, 2023

Me too. Youtube didn’t cut the song limit in playlist. Only Sonos limit the showing of my playlist. I believe Sonos should do some research and fix it.

Yes they did, Sonos do not limit the size of any SMAPI container, any limits are imposed by the individual music services. The app just gulps them down in pages of size 200 items.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
Lyricist I
December 5, 2023

So I just added the 101 track to my play list on YouTube music and it didn't show up in the Sonos app. I went back to YouTube and deleted the first song in the playlist and the last song I added showed up in the Sonos app. I have 22 sonos devices and a Roam, so 23. The software experience has gotten very bad. If I hadn't sunk so much money into the hardware, I'd sell it all... The Sonos experience used to be enjoyable, professional, and consistent. It's none of those anymore.  JB

Ken_Griffiths
December 5, 2023

So I just added the 101 track to my play list on YouTube music and it didn't show up in the Sonos app. I went back to YouTube and deleted the first song in the playlist and the last song I added showed up in the Sonos app. I have 22 sonos devices and a Roam, so 23. The software experience has gotten very bad. If I hadn't sunk so much money into the hardware, I'd sell it all... The Sonos experience used to be enjoyable, professional, and consistent. It's none of those anymore.  JB

This must be down to a Google/YTM limitation, as I can happily add larger playlists to play on my Sonos speakers via Amazon Music, Apple Music and Deezer. So it’s not something that Sonos appear to be limiting, otherwise I would expect to see that same limit applied across the board to all the services in their App.

Lyricist II
December 6, 2023

same issue here. It cuts off at 100 songs. They claim it is a Youtube issue -
Hard to believe. This should be fixed as this is a major issue when trying to stay in the Sonos eco-system. 

Ken_Griffiths
December 6, 2023

same issue here. It cuts off at 100 songs. They claim it is a Youtube issue -
Hard to believe. This should be fixed as this is a major issue when trying to stay in the Sonos eco-system. 

I would go ask Google YouTube Music Customer Support, as when such a limit has been applied to some services in the past it turned out to be an error. The last case I recall was Amazon and their customers complained and it quickly got corrected and put back to 500 tracks (which is what the Amazon playlist track-limit has been for as far back as I can recall)

Lyricist I
December 25, 2023

same issue here. Sonos limits the playlist to 100 songs. Took me forever to figure out why the songs in my Youtube Music playlist done’t show up on Sonos. We have Sonos ceiling speakers all over the house and spend a lot of money on amps etc. We are so regretting this. The entire family is on Youtube Music and not being able to cast directly is incredibly annoying. Now Sonos restricts playlist and tells its customers to speak to google about it. Really not cool Sonos. We wish we would have known all this before. We would never have chosen Sonos as our main sound system.