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Cliff Richard Radio Station Not Working With Sonos

  • 24 April 2020
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P

Hi. 
 

I run an internet radio called Cliff Richard Radio. For years it’s been playing fine with Sonos but lately Chrome stopped supporting a lot of internet radio stations unless we changed our SSL to run over it and updated it with TuneIn so it will run. It seems Sono’s hasn’t picked up on the radio update as my Sono’s equipment along with many of my listeners is no longer working with my station. It won’t play. It’ll play fine with the TuneIn App by itself but won’t play at all in the Sonos app, you press play and nothing. I’ve submitted help to Sonos but have heard nothing back. All other stations via tunein work no problem that I’ve tried. Please help. 

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controlav
Userlevel 7
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What happens if you enter your station URL directly into the Sonos app? If that works, then this is TuneIn’s problem to fix as their database needs an update (Sonos use the directory differently to the TuneIn app itself). If the direct URL does not work then list the details: the url and details of the SSL change you made.

Author of the leading 3rd party Sonos apps for Windows and a new app for iOS
P

Hi,

Have put in the URL and it doesn’t play. All I did was change from Shoutcast to Icecast servers. 
 

https://station.voscast.com/525e3a985bf0d 

 

is what I gave TuneIn and it works fine on their standalone app 

controlav
Userlevel 7
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That is an HTML page, not a media url. Sonos needs a url that points to the actual media stream. I can’t figure out the url from the page, maybe someone else can.

Author of the leading 3rd party Sonos apps for Windows and a new app for iOS
J

That is an HTML page, not a media url. Sonos needs a url that points to the actual media stream. I can’t figure out the url from the page, maybe someone else can.

This is correct, but OP says he runs the station.

To the OP... you must know the streaming URL, surely?

controlav
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I do see that the stream is encrypted with a key from Lets Encrypt. I can’t find the list now, but I believe this root CA provider is not supported by Sonos players. Try using a key from a supported root CA provider.

Author of the leading 3rd party Sonos apps for Windows and a new app for iOS
controlav
Userlevel 7
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Found it on the old site, could not find it on the new developer site though:’

The current Certificate Authority certificates trusted by Sonos products are listed below by common name, except where indicated. This list may change with future Sonos software updates.

  • AddTrust External CA Root
  • Baltimore CyberTrust Root
  • DigiCert Global Root CA
  • DigiCert Global Root G2
  • DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
  • DST Root CA X3
  • GeoTrust Global CA
  • GlobalSign Root CA
  • GlobalSign RootCA - R2 *
  • Go Daddy Root Certificate Authority - G2
  • SecureTrust CA
  • Starfield Class 2 Certification Authority *

* organization and/or organizational unit

Author of the leading 3rd party Sonos apps for Windows and a new app for iOS
P

Hi. 
Sorry I Copied the wrong link from Voscast. It’s this one

https://s9.voscast.com:8033

 

I had to move from the old Shoutcast servers to Icecast. 
 

I don’t know if I can run two streams at the same time from them as really want the station to be completely compatible with everything. If I had of known it was going to be like this I would’ve just let the google browsers not work as now I’ve found out other internet radios won’t work. Only Alexa and google home work. 
 

 

Airgetlam

That’s still a web page. I think what you want is

https://s9.voscast.com:8033/stream.ogg

or

https://s9.voscast.com:8033/stream.ogg.m3u

or

https://s9.voscast.com:8033/stream.ogg.xspf

 

I don’t have any expertise in adding a URL to the Sonos client like controlav does, but I think one of those would work when following the instructions at the Setting up an internet radio station FAQ. 

Bruce

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