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AlMac
Contributor II
June 13, 2020
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Ads appearing on Tunein since change to Sonos S1, any idews why?

  • June 13, 2020
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Hi learned Sonos Community

since the change to Sonos s1 whilst playing radio via Sonos thro tunein I keep getting the same ad appearing, never happened before any one else had same issue

 

thanks

 

Al

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    Best answer by Airgetlam

    Yep, I have the same issue, I can’t listen to baseball games, when they were occurring, on Sonos either. I originally set up a line in from my Mac to a PLAY:5, but eventually went with AirPlay 2 instead. There have been many instances of folks requesting they add TuneIn Premium, and I’ve even contacted TuneIn, but so far nothing. 

    14 replies

    ratty
    ratty
    June 13, 2020

    Which station? Some stations invoked via TuneIn hook an ad before connecting to the service. At a guess it’s a TuneIn thing, rather than Sonos.

    If the ads are appearing between tracks then they must have been inserted by the actual station.

    AlMacAuthor
    Contributor II
    June 13, 2020

    Radio X ad appears mid song and only started happening since change to Sonos S1 which could be coincidental idk

    rweiner
    June 21, 2020

    Same here -- I’m hearing ads for TuneIn occasionally when starting non-commercial stations like WWOZ.

    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    June 21, 2020

    Your question should be to TuneIn. Sonos doesn’t alter the stream. 

    Bruce
    rweiner
    June 21, 2020

    Thanks, Airgetlam

      rweiner
      June 22, 2020

      TuneIn says: “We just started doing pre-roll ads on Sonos.” I’ll be looking more closely at radio.com

        Airgetlam
        Airgetlam
        June 22, 2020

        I suspect you’ll find similar things on any ‘free’ service, as there isn’t anything that is really ‘free’. You either pay a subscription, or you get to listen to advertising. Sometimes both. 

        Bruce
        rweiner
        June 22, 2020

        Yes, but whereas I can listen to Spotify Premium through Sonos, “It’s not possible to add a TuneIn Pro or Premium account to Sonos.” (This is from Sonos’s FAQ)
        https://support.sonos.com/s/article/83?language=en_US

        Airgetlam
        AirgetlamAnswer
        June 22, 2020

        Yep, I have the same issue, I can’t listen to baseball games, when they were occurring, on Sonos either. I originally set up a line in from my Mac to a PLAY:5, but eventually went with AirPlay 2 instead. There have been many instances of folks requesting they add TuneIn Premium, and I’ve even contacted TuneIn, but so far nothing. 

        Bruce
        castalla
        Local Superstar
        June 22, 2020

        I suspect you’ll find similar things on any ‘free’ service, as there isn’t anything that is really ‘free’. You either pay a subscription, or you get to listen to advertising. Sometimes both. 

        Except on the leftish BBC, and the radio streams from DR and NRK.  Even in the US there’s Radio Paradise.

        I suspect there are many others without advertising … how about ABC stations from Australia?

        If you mean ‘aggregators’ as opposed to actual radio streams, then there are alternatives to Tunein, eg. radio.net, MyTuner, etc.

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