TuneIn no longer supported, custom urls no more?

  • 21 December 2022
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106rallye
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Just a thought. If you would use a TuneIn account, could you not ad a radiostation through their app, even when you do not use the premium version? Would this added station then be carried over to Sonos?

Corry P
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Hi @controlav 

Thanks for your post!

Unfortunately, we cannot comment on future updates.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
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Hi @controlav et al,

I’ve come across some more information that I’d like to share with you all:

  • Customers who already have manually added stations will have these stations automatically migrated to My Sonos as favourites, so they will not be lost or become unavailable.
  • The new TuneIn container for the Sonos app will not have the ability to add manual stations, but the TuneIn app will, and any added there will automatically migrate to the (new) Sonos TuneIn container, if logged into the same account.

The latter feature is not yet currently not working but it is our intention to work together with TuneIn to bring this feature in as soon as possible.

For now, you can of course still use the “old” TuneIn container in the Sonos app.

I hope this helps.

 

This makes me immensely happy as I've some new speakers under the trial and they'd have been going straight back if they'd removed the custom URL streams! 

C

Are there any other apps that permit custom streams?

 

how about radio.net or Plex?

 

is there a cost to publishing an app on TuneIn?

B
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I made a mistake saying I was able to add a custom URL using the TuneIn website on my PC. That feature isn’t available there. 
 

However, the TuneIn Pro app on my IPhone currently does allow adding custom URL’s from the Library tab.

But, the list of favorites in my Library in the Tunein Pro app on my iPhone doesn’t currently sync with the list of favorites on the “new” Sonos Tunein app. The favorites list in the Sonos “new” Tunein app is much shorter and is missing many of my favorites even though I’m logged into the same account as my Tunein iOS account. 
 

Hopefully that’s simply because the “syncing between the Sonos TuneIn service and other devices with TuneIn accounts” feature hasn’t been enabled yet.
 

It is great to hear that Sonos plans to migrates the list of saved favorites, including custom URLs, to the “My Sonos” tab. In doing so, will Sonos concurrently increase the number of available “slots” in My Sonos (which is currently limited to a fixed number) to accommodate this migration?

 

Airgetlam

The other question:

Sonos doesn’t pay for access, nor receives payment from anyone (minor caveat is Sonos HD radio, I think), based on looking at their financial reports. Anyone can request being part of the Sonos ecosystem, there are instructions at the Sonos partners page.

 

Bruce
106rallye
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@Gemstone035 See the above message by a Sonos employee that this “feature is (…] currently not working but it is our intention to work together with TuneIn to bring this feature in as soon as possible.”

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I'm planning to buy a Sonos speaker. I would like to know if it is possible to add my own custom radios url at the moment of December 2023? Thanks!

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Hi @Vladimir_G 

Yes - you need to install the (unsupported) legacy version of TuneIn to do so.

 

What is unsupported version? Is it old version one Tunein?

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From reading the upstream comments, I conclude the following.  Please tell me if I am wrong.

Custom URLs were a feature of an older version of TuneIn, but are no longer a feature of the most recent version.  The old TuneIn is unsupported and may be phased out at a later date.  However, the ability to store and play URLs is native Sonos functionality.  The old TuneIn app was only a convenient way to provide a UI to this functionality.  It could be provided by the Sonos control panel or by another app.

Custom URLs provide one of the last (if not the last) way to play Internet radio on a Sonos without a paid account.  And it is far from clear whether any funds paid to TuneIn (or similar) make it back to the content source (e.g., the public radio station or the like) in any meaningful way.  TuneIn is a directory service/aggregator after all, not a content provider.

It is unclear whether Sonos has the financial motivation to provide custom URLs, and quite possible that it has motivations to the contrary.

Ted Wobber
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I agree that Custom URLs were a piece of basic Sonos functionality from the beginning.  No point in arguing whether they were initially provided by the base system or by the TuneIn app.  In the early days, I don’t remember any clear distinction between those things.  The key point is that the base system has the capability of both storing and playing such URLs.  The UI that allows them to be created by the user is a small detail.

The funds I am referring to are those I would have to pay to join TuneIn in the absence of Custom URLs.  In my case, TuneIn’s only value-add would be to offer up a target URL that I already know, and could have added myself via a custom URL.  And if I joined, I doubt that any of my TuneIn membership dues would make it back to the service sourcing that URL.

Sonos might have a business interest in seeing subscription TuneIn supplant free streaming.  I have no idea whether this is true,  but given that Sonos offers “Sonos Radio” which seems to be based on TuneIn, it’s clear that the business relationship between Sonos and TuneIn is complex.

 

 

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