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YouTube Music not listing full library

  • 13 August 2020
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R
Userlevel 2

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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Best answer by Xander P 10 February 2021, 17:35

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R
Userlevel 2

Just tried this and now I can’t seem to access my ‘Uploads’ anymore?

 

When I click any sections (Albums, Artists, etc) the ‘Uploads’ button has been removed?

 

A
Userlevel 3
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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. 

R
Userlevel 2

For anyone else with the uploads problem, I got sick of waiting for Google to fix this so moved over to use IBroadcast a while back and it works great!

YTM is a horrible product, such a shame they killed GPM as it was great for years!

R

Worked for me (Yay!).  I never looked to see if was somehow fixed by itself; I immediately followed the advice to remove and add the service, and now everything is there.

What are the chances that YTM did for Google’s own Android Auto the very same “increase in container size”..??  That’d be nice…

 

A
Userlevel 3
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Before I could only see artists up to “B”. Now I can see artists up through “N”. Getting better YTM, but still not ready for prime time. 

L

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

controlav
Userlevel 7
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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.

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A
Userlevel 3
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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

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

Bruce
C
Userlevel 2
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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). 

R

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 :-)

A
Userlevel 3
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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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