How to disable Sonos Radio?

  • 1 April 2023
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I have over a dozen Sonos products in my home and have been a loyal customer since 2016.  I’m a huge fan of Sonos speakers and use the app daily.
 

One thing that is incredibly annoying is Sonos Radio.  How do I remove or disable Sonos Radio from the app?  I use Apple Music, so Sonos Radio just complicates things when using voice control or the app to search for songs.  There has to be a way to disable it, right? 
 

Thanks in advance!


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That's ridiculous. The local music library has disappeared in the new search and this new search is offered as an alternative? Sonos Radio somehow remains permanently in second place in the search sequence, even though I have never used it. How do you come to the conclusion that you are making an already not particularly good piece of software even less attractive by so obviously trying to foist services on your customers that they really don't want and telling you so?

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I've seen so many people asking to have the option to disable Sonos Radio, it's ridiculous they won't respond, other then we will add it as a requested feature, for it to be ignored. And its obvious why, it's their way to sell ads to it's users. 

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Hi @Highznberg, welcome to the Sonos Community!

You can’t remove Sonos Radio from the Sonos app, however using New Search will show the most used services on your household at the top of the list. You can also set a default music service in the Alexa app and Sonos will use this when you give the system a voice command.

I hope this information helps!

If one of your employees picks this at your restaurant and someone from the music industry comes in they can pop you for ascap violations And they can get you up to $25,000 I think for this violation. Freaking ridiculous that Sonos will put you in harms way and they said well it’s not supposed to be used in a commercial setting. What an idiot the representative was.

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