Ads before streaming from radio station

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
January 4, 2022
22 replies
8256 views

It is really annoying that TuneIn plays adds when opening a radio station in Sonos. Now they even play ads during a piece of nice music.

How can we avoid this, is there a work around. Or should there be a possibility to pay for add free radio (thinking about it that the radio stations i listen to als play there own ads)

any advice?

This topic has been closed for further comments. You can use the search bar to find a similar topic, or create a new one by clicking Create Topic at the top of the page.

Best answer by GuitarSuperstar

A TuneIn Premium subscription offers more than 600 commercial-free music stations and an ad-free experience, but unfortunately it is currently not possible to add a TuneIn Pro or Premium account to Sonos. And even if you could add a Premium account to Sonos, there would still be many radio stations that would stream commercials. So, for now, commercials will always be part of the TuneIn listening experience.

Show previous replies

Airgetlam

I’ve never known Sonos not to use TuneIn. Although I suppose at some point, Groove Salad may have had their own integration with Sonos that has been dropped along the way, since they got the same customers through using TuneIn as a carrier for their signal.

Bruce

ratty

Groove Salad is SomaFM. As noted earlier in the thread SomaFM list direct URLs for all their stations, at a range of bitrates, which can be easily added to Sonos. No ads. I'm surprised an integrator wouldn't be familiar with this option.

Just on a historical note, I may be wrong but when I first installed Sonos in 2007 I believe the radio directory service was provided by Sonos themselves. They apparently outsourced this to TuneIn a while later, without ads. It was more recently that TuneIn introduced pre-roll ads.

Sign up

Login to the community