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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pwt

Virtuoso

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!

If you have the technical know-how, just set up AirConnect. It will seamlessly add AirPlay to all of your older Sonos speakers. Works brilliantly, with S1, S2, or mixed version systems.

See:

https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect or

https://github.com/pwt/docker-airconnect-arm if you have a Raspberry Pi available.

4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300

brookheather

Contributor I

FYI, BBC Sounds works perfectly via UPnP from LMS on a Raspberry Pi to my Sonos Play:1s.

Are you using the LMS UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin and then selecting your Sonos as the player in the LMS UI when you play BBC Sounds? I got this working though on the Sonos app it doesn’t show the artwork or track data - it just shows Streaming from LMS - did you manage to get it showing in the Sonos app?

I needed to change the UPnP player codecs to flc,mp3 and didn’t need to enable transcoding (or you can select the Sonos preset for the specific player). I also changed the Player discovery remove timeout to -1 as the Sonos players seem to send heartbeats infrequently and by default they keep disappearing from the LMS UI list of players.

chicks

FYI, BBC Sounds works perfectly via UPnP from LMS on a Raspberry Pi to my Sonos Play:1s.

Are you using the LMS UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin and then selecting your Sonos as the player in the LMS UI when you play BBC Sounds? I got this working though on the Sonos app it doesn’t show the artwork or track data - it just shows Streaming from LMS - did you manage to get it showing in the Sonos app?

I needed to change the UPnP player codecs to flc,mp3 and didn’t need to enable transcoding (or you can select the Sonos preset for the specific player). I also changed the Player discovery remove timeout to -1 as the Sonos players seem to send heartbeats infrequently and by default they keep disappearing from the LMS UI list of players.

Yes, using the UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin, with the “Sonos” preset at the player level. I never use the clunky, limited Sonos app anymore, just the Material Skin with LMS, so no idea if it displays artwork there.

brookheather

Contributor I

To answer my own question above about displaying the streamed artwork on the Sonos app - I just needed to disable the password for LMS - if it is enabled then the artwork isn’t shown. I now see the artwork and audio title displayed fine.

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Almarr

Lyricist I

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.

BBC radio 2 dropped off of TuneIn today. Anyone know why?

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John B

It's fine for me. Are you still having a problem with it?

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Almarr