For the last year or so…. I’ve lost the ability to Play certain Podcasts from iHeart & Tunein…

This was not an issue before this… and now I get the Popup message for each Podcast as “Unable to Play …...The Connection to iHeart Was Lost”……..

No Error messages otherwise. If there are 20 for example Podcasts from the particular show in the que, and I attempt to play the first one, the above failed message cycles through each one until it reaches the top.

Old or newly dropped does not seem to matter as to its availability to play.

For example “Fly On The Wall” with Dana Carvey is no longer accessible due to this failure.  We know its not being blocked by the source, as anyone can listen to the Podcast through a web browser on the internet with no issue.

Several calls to Sonos Help provided no resolution of the issue, other than a assurance it would be sent over to the developers.

Other Podcasts suffer from the same issue… its totally random. Interestingly I’ve not found any Music sites with this problem, though I typically listen to a select group.

My overall internet connection coming in is a rock solid 500+ Down , and in-house is as strong and clean…  If every Stream was Flaky and problematic, I would at least have a clue. The fault is just so random. 

The fault message is a bit of a misnomer….  I NEVER had a connection…. So nothing was “lost”

And I just uninstalled all the music Services and then re-installed hoping that might reset the connection…. alas nada…..

Is there a workaround or known issue that others have encountered? Most of the other similar threads show that it displays it as an “Error” or similar…..

Thx!