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Gregger
Contributor I
June 10, 2023
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YouTube Music playlist - Unable to browse music

  • June 10, 2023
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Hi there, 

When tapping into my "My Likes" YTM playlist in the S2 app on Android, I get a message "Unable to browse music."

This is a large playlist, and another large playlist in my library has the same problem. From Google searching, I've seen reports from about 2 years ago of the same issue, though it appears that it was resolved back then.

I've reinstalled the S2 app, and removed and re-added my YTM account. My sense is that this is caused by the 999 song limit in the YTM API.

This playlist worked fine up until very recently, and its been well over 999 songs for a long time. I'll guess that either something has changed on the YTM API side, or the approach Sonos is using to workaround that limit (perhaps fetching only 999 songs from large playlists) is no longer working.

I expect a response from Sonos might be that it's a YTM problem, and to contact them, but I do hope that Sonos engineers can take a close look at the Sonos side just to be sure.

Thanks for great products, 

Greg

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    Best answer by Deato

    I have that Problem too. The Playlist is 700+ long. Very annoying!

     

    Edit: Found a work around if you long press on the playlist, you can start the Playlist over the menu that opens up. Hope that works for you too. 

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    wisqerbee
    Lyricist I
    June 14, 2023

    Yup, same issue and the issue didn’t start for me until yesterday (I had been playing that same playlist right before it happened). Thinking there was either a Sonos our YTM update that caused the issue but I’m leaning towards YTM as I didn’t see the Sonos app update come through. Thanks for posting this, and thanks for the workaround!

    betamax
    betamax
    Lyricist III
    June 17, 2023

    I’m seeing the problem too. First started for me a few days ago, so suspect it’s due to an update; either Sonos or Youtube Music.

     

    The workaround works for me. Thanks so much @Deato.

    Douglas_28
    Contributor I
    June 19, 2023

    I have that Problem too. The Playlist is 700+ long. Very annoying!

     

    Edit: Found a work around if you long press on the playlist, you can start the Playlist over the menu that opens up. Hope that works for you too. 

    Excellent workaround, Thanks!!

    LakeHouse_
    Contributor I
    June 20, 2023

    Same problem. Just started happening. Spent 2 hours chatting with Sonos support to no avail. Two of my 18 playlists no longer work; one had 572 songs and the other has 1354 songs.

    The long press suggested above does not work for me. 

      beebeebrakes
      Lyricist I
      June 23, 2023

      Updated SONOS app and now will “browse music” but truncates long playlists at 500 songs, @Deato ‘s fix does not work anymore. Anyone else having this issue?

       

        Deato
        Lyricist II
        June 23, 2023

        Updated SONOS app and now will “browse music” but truncates long playlists at 500 songs, @Deato ‘s fix does not work anymore. Anyone else having this issue?

         

        You are right. I have this problem now too. Annoying! 

          FilGov
          Trending Lyricist I
          June 23, 2023

          Updated SONOS app and now will “browse music” but truncates long playlists at 500 songs, @Deato ‘s fix does not work anymore. Anyone else having this issue?

           

          Yep, same. I can only listen to songs and albums whose title starts with a special character, number, or ‘A’, artists whose name starts with a special character, number, ‘A’, or ‘B’, or a limited selection of my favorites on my ~1500€ speakers. Thanks, Google and Sonos.

          LakeHouse_
          Contributor I
          June 23, 2023

          Updated SONOS app and now will “browse music” but truncates long playlists at 500 songs, @Deato ‘s fix does not work anymore. Anyone else having this issue?

           

          You are right. I have this problem now too. Annoying! 

          Same.  Only 500 songs show up on the 2 playlists I was having problems with.  This is a worthless solution.  I’ve spent years curating my playlists; it would be nice to hear them when I want.  This isn’t a SOLUTION, it’s a downgrade.

            Deato
            Lyricist II
            August 18, 2023

            Hello everyone, 

            Found a new workaround, you have to split the playlist in smaller bits <499 and then reassemble the new playlists in Sonos. Not really satisfactory and also strange that this works, but it works. 

              FilGov
              Trending Lyricist I
              August 22, 2023

              Hello everyone, 

              Found a new workaround, you have to split the playlist in smaller bits <499 and then reassemble the new playlists in Sonos. Not really satisfactory and also strange that this works, but it works. 

              How do you “split the playlist in smaller bits <499” without manually selecting <499 songs individually? I find no way to do this on music.youtube.com (Shift doesn’t work). And what if I wish to suffle everything instead of a playlist? I find no (easy) way to add everything to a playlist on music.youtube.com.

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