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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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    beebeebrakes
    Lyricist I
    October 17, 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.

    I’ve found that within music.youtube.com on my MacBook to select as many songs as you want try clicking on the box to the very right scroll down to whatever song below shift+click on its box and all songs in between will be selected. That’s how I created <499 playlists from larger playlists within YT music which you can import and combine within a sonos playlist. When adding new music to YTM to my >500 playlist I now add same song to a different playlist in YTM that only contains the new songs. I then import this ‘new song’ playlist and add to my >500 sonos playlist. It’s a pain LOL. 

    FilGov
    Trending Lyricist I
    October 17, 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.

    I’ve found that within music.youtube.com on my MacBook to select as many songs as you want try clicking on the box to the very right scroll down to whatever song below shift+click on its box and all songs in between will be selected. That’s how I created <499 playlists from larger playlists within YT music which you can import and combine within a sonos playlist. When adding new music to YTM to my >500 playlist I now add same song to a different playlist in YTM that only contains the new songs. I then import this ‘new song’ playlist and add to my >500 sonos playlist. It’s a pain LOL. 

    "Shift+click" doesn't work for me. I asked in the YouTube Community and someone confirmed this isn't supported. Sonos now lists a new YouTube Music playlist option, but it only shuffles 500 songs. I gave up and started using iBroadcast instead. It shuffles all songs (without ads).

    JRNDigital
    Lyricist I
    October 17, 2023

    It seems like the "My Likes" playlist in the S2 app on Android is showing the message "Unable to browse music." This issue may be related to the 999 song limit in the YTM API, even though the playlist has exceeded this limit for some time. It could be a change on the YTM API side or a Sonos workaround no longer functioning correctly. While Sonos may suggest reaching out to YTM, it's worth having Sonos engineers investigate their side to be certain.

     

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