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Hi,

I’ve added an URL to a German radio station (Antenne Bayern official URL: http://www.antenne.de/webradio/antenne.m3u) to the TuneIn radio station list.

Listening works perfectly well, but each time when turning on one of my Play:1 devices for first time of the day (maybe later too) to listen to this radio station, I first get a short ad that interrupts the current live radio stream. To be precise, the ad plays first and after some seconds, the radio station program starts.

One can distinguish this annoying ad from the normal broadcasting, because when the ad streaming finishes, the currently broadcast song continues somewhere in the middle or the presenters start speaking somewhere in the middle of a sentence. Those ads are not part of the radio station program.

While I can understand that TuneIn tends to earn some money for its free services, I do not understand why those ads also appear when using the freely available official Antenne Bayern app, that I can add from the Sonos app services list!

Using this (official) app, I toohear ads before the station stream starts!

I already tried to trace down the source of those ads using a network sniffer on my firewall, with the aim to block the source completely. So far I could not find the source IP address or URL.

Anyone observed the same behaviour using Sonos speakers, maybe on different (German) radio stations? I also suspect Sonos is responsible for this behaviour to earn some additional money, maybe Antenne Bayern itself is the source, don’t know right now.

Don’t confuse those ads with possible shown visual ads within the Sonos (Windows, Android) app. Those can be turned off in Sonos profile settings and are already off on my side.

Michael

Sonos has no control over where TuneIn and/or the station itself places ads.  Sonos simply plays what it is given.  Also, Sonos makes no income from services or sources, they are not placing these ads.  

Ok, this means Sonos in the first run is not the source of the ads. OTH, I don’t know if Sonos would ever disclosure such information...

So, this still leaves the question who streams those ads if not Sonos. I suspect its not the radio station, not sure though.

 

Ok, this means Sonos in the first run is not the source of the ads. OTH, I don’t know if Sonos would ever disclosure such information...

So, this still leaves the question who streams those ads if not Sonos. I suspect its not the radio station, not sure though.

 

Sonos has in the past disclosed they derive no income from streaming partners. They even state that their Music Partners program is free and open to anyone here:

https://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=node/21

 

Who can play: Any music service, anywhere in the world.
In a nutshell: It’s easy to integrate using the Sonos Music API – and it’s free!
How it works: Do it all online, in 3 easy steps:
 
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Thanks again!


Guess I made some progress in finding out the source of those ads. I traced the network traffic more extensively and found that Antenne Bayern uses this URL to stream: http://mp3channels.webradio.de/

When using this URL in my browser, I can hear those ads, too, from time to time, mostly when running for the first time. Hence, obviously the radio station itself sends those advertisments out.

This would explain why TuneIn as well as the Antenne Bayern app itself, both show the same behaviour

Try this as the stream url:

http://play.antenne.de/antenne.m3u

 

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