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Contributor II
November 7, 2022
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BBC Radio to stop mid 2023

  • November 7, 2022
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Hi all

 

for BBC Sounds to be available as a music source, is it sufficient to have a UK based account or do you need to be connected to a UK /VPN server.  
 

many thanks

 

 

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Best answer by castalla

Should work with just a UK account.  Mine does. 

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Local Superstar
November 7, 2022

Should work with just a UK account.  Mine does. 

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106rallye
November 7, 2022

Just curious. For non-UK residents BBC radio is stille available on TuneIn. Where have you read it will stop “mid 2023”?

Lyricist I
November 10, 2022

when listening to bbc radio abroad (via tunein or sonos radio, doesn’t seem to make a difference). the bbc originating message ‘this service will stop in 2023, if you are listening via internet radio contact your provider’ has started to being broadcast once a day for the last few days.

would be keen to hear whether Sonos have a plan or instructions.

106rallye
November 10, 2022

Could be they mean this: 

 

Lyricist I
November 10, 2022

it looks like the same issue and from my (optimistic) reading of the posts it looks like Sonos/TuneIn are going to make updates to fix it.

Trending Lyricist I
January 18, 2023

Morning, the announcements  on BBC over tune-in / sonos continue - '….transmission by this supplier will end during 2023...contact your supplier...or use BBC Sounds..’.  I've tried to find the music service on sonos (having connected on the net on my phone) 'BBC Sounds’ and it isn't there.  Anyone got a fix?

January 18, 2023

@mark bibbings . Your profile says you are in France.  BBC sounds within Sonos is only available in the UK.  It is suggested earlier in this thread that it is sufficient tochange the location of your Sonos account to UK.  I’m a bit sceptical about that, but maybe you’d like to test it for us?

Edit - just realised that @castalla has already stated that this works for him.  Might still be worth testing in another part of the world and a different setup.

Trending Lyricist I
January 18, 2023

Thanks John. I’ll see if it works for me - MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW….

Trending Lyricist I
January 18, 2023

OK John. ‘Thicko’ here - how do I change my account to UK?

January 18, 2023

OK John. ‘Thicko’ here - how do I change my account to UK?

Go to www.sonos.com.

Click the icon that looks (vaguely) like a person and sign into your account.

Edit your profile.