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Lesleyfp
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December 28, 2016

BBC Iplayer

  • December 28, 2016
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We have a Sonos 1 speaker. Sadly one of the main things I need my audio system to do is play radio four. We do listen to music but I am an artist and work from home and use "listen again" every day. This is so disappointing for me. And I think possibly for other people - Lots of my friends use the iPlayer to re-listen to the BBC programmes. You can download a number of programmes to MP3 but to be honest most of the ones I listen to must be subject to copyright and cannot be downloaded - just streamed for up to 4 weeks after the program (the Book of the Week, 15 minute Drama, etc). I feel this is a real omission by Sonos as the BBC iPlayer is such a fantastic resource for everyone. I do not want to have multiple speakers around the house, and it seems that Bluetooth can do pretty much everything I wanted to. So at this point it seems the sonos system has limited use and will be returned.
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    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 2, 2017
    It is against YouTube terms of service to play audio and no video. It just happens they can't stop a Bluetooth connection from doing it. There actually is a program for Sonos called Sonos Tube that will play the audio from an Apple device (at least its available until YouTube forces it to be taken down).

    BBC - we don't know more then it takes 2 to tango. But I would bet Sonos would rather get BBC to add the direct to Sonos ability (just unveiled with Spotify) vs. having to maintain a BBC iplayer type app within Sonos itself. As the Direct to Sonos part is just recently being pushed I would think that would be the next step in BBC iplayer support.
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    Insertusernamehere
    January 2, 2017
    When you stream youtube audio to a bluetooth the video keeps playing on the device, it isnt against the YT TOU.
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    January 2, 2017
    The only reason that it works is because they can't stop it ... you don't think they would block if they could.
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