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BBC Sounds on Sonos?

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December 2, 2020
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I was wondering what the latest news is on being able to hear BBC Sounds on my Sonos speakers.

I don’t seem to be able to get that BBC service on my Sonos.

It seems the comments answers to the FAQ’s are a year old.

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Best answer by ratty

Are you missing some BBC stations? These should be available via Sonos Radio (and TuneIn).

There isn’t a BBC Sounds service on Sonos. The BBC would have to do the integration work.

It you have an iDevice you could always use Airplay to send from the native BBC Sounds app to compatible Sonos devices.

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mashton

Trending Lyricist I

Hundred percent agreed. Please implement BBC Sounds on Sonos.

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Mike in WB

Lyricist I

Both parties replied very quickly, neither seems to be prepared to visit each other but the BBC was positive, see below,

Thanks for contacting BBC Sounds support about listening on your Sonos speakers.

We already do offer support for Sonos and you need to either AirPlay from an iOS device or you can listen to Alexa (if your Sonos device support them).

There are no immediate plans to add direct support but this may change in future but the best thing to do for now, is to keep an eye on our FAQ page for Sonos for any updates:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/supported-devices/sonos-airplay

We appreciate your feedback about it, we plan to constantly improve the experience by using our users' feedback as BBC Sounds develops. Rest assured that I will log this complaint onto our Audience Feedback Report for you, to be seen by BBC Management and the BBC Sounds Product Team, including the Head of BBC Sounds.

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John B

Hundred percent agreed. Please implement BBC Sounds on Sonos.

As has been said, Sonos cannot do this unilaterally. And everything the BBC is doing suggests that they want total control over content distribution.

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JohnG666

Enthusiast II

Does anyone know for certain if the BBC streams won’t be available on MyTuner Radio (for example)?

I don’t have the ability to airplay anything to my Sonos speakers so I running out of things I can listen to on them. They’re becoming redundant sadly. First of all the lots of stations were removed from TuneIn and now this. The only thing I’ll have left soon is Planet Rock via TuneIn.

I was thinking about getting a Roam speaker for the bathroom when they come out but now there’s no point as there will soon be none of my radio stations left to listen to.

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dpoison

Trending Lyricist I

I’ve just found this thread. Informative. I’ve got legacy products so AirPlay won’t work and I primarily use sonos to listen to the radio (seeing as I can’t play my iTunes playlists from my phone anymore… which I used to do with no hassle… but anyway.. that’s another story).

I’m back to trying out Tune In. If that doesn’t work then I’m stuck with an outrageously expensive “investment”. I do hope BBC work with Sonos on this one. Either that or it’s NTS and FIP radio all the way.

Or buy a Sonos Roam?

Does anyone know for certain if the BBC streams won’t be available on MyTuner Radio (for example)?

I don’t have the ability to airplay anything to my Sonos speakers so I running out of things I can listen to on them. They’re becoming redundant sadly. First of all the lots of stations were removed from TuneIn and now this. The only thing I’ll have left soon is Planet Rock via TuneIn.

I was thinking about getting a Roam speaker for the bathroom when they come out but now there’s no point as there will soon be none of my radio stations left to listen to.

I should have thought there was more reason to buy a Roam, as it will enable you to play BBC Sounds to your system using Bluetooth.

I don’t think there is actually going to be a problem listening to BBC live streams on Sonos anyway.

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dpoison

Trending Lyricist I

Or buy a Sonos Roam?

Will this work with legacy products? By this I mean, in terms of playing something from my iPhone from my iTunes playlist via AirPlay (which doesn’t work on legacy) then moving it along to my legacy setup? Problem is that I’m still on the old version sonos app which I need to be on due to my legacy setup. It’s all so convoluted!

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John B

I was thinking of using Bluetooth. But the Roam is compatible with S2 only.

But you can stream to legacy speakers using Airplay by grouping if you have one Airplay compatible speaker.

Which legacy products do you have? And which non-legacy products?