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starflyergold
starflyergold
Contributor I
May 9, 2024

Adding radio custom URLs in TuneIn (new) now that the legacy version is gone in the new controller

  • May 9, 2024
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Now that legacy TuneIn is gone from the new (buggy) iOS controller and all my custom radio stations (in my case from Digitally Imported di.fm)  were gone and there is no information on the Sonos site I luckily found a way to get them back. However it involves recreating them which can be labour intensive depending on how many you have. You will also need the IOS version of TuneIn for this to work. No premium sign up required.

Here are the instructions from TuneIn https://help.tunein.com/en/support/solutions/articles/151000172377-what-is-a-custom-url-and-how-can-i-add-it-to-sonos-

The Custom URL feature allows you to listen to a private streaming URL, most likely not in the TuneIn directory, using the TuneIn and Sonos app.

To add a custom URL to your Sonos:

  1. Ensure that TuneIn (new) is added on your Sonos app
  2. Log into the iOS or Android TuneIn app using the same TuneIn credentials you use on Sonos
  3. On the TuneIn app, navigate to Library
  4. Tap on customURL and enter the desired stream URL
  5. While listening to that stream, tap the favorite (heart) icon on the now playing screen
  6. Select “favorite station”
  7. Enter a name for the custom stream
  8. Return to TuneIn (new) on your Sonos app, and you should now see that station in your favorites gallery there.

So far this works fine on my system.

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    Barrypg
    Trending Lyricist I
    May 31, 2024

    I think that once you’ve added a custom url and saved it as a Favorite via “standalone” TuneIn Radio Pro, there is a way to also add it to “Sonos Favorites”. 
     

    1. Open up “new” TuneIn in the Sonos app. 
    2. Go to the Favorites section and find the custom station URL. Click on it. Click on the 3 dots at the bottom. Click “Save To Sonos Favorites”. It should then appear in Sonos Favorites.

     

    Bear in mind that “new” TuneIn inside Sonos only displays a certain number of favorites that were saved in TuneIn Radio Pro. In my case I have saved over 100 but around 24-30 (I didn’t count exactly) were displayed in “new” TuneIn inside Sonos. It seems to grab the partial list from the top down in the library, cutting off those once you hit their threshold. 
     

    Also, to help find custom station URLS, here’s a helpful site: https://www.radio-browser.info/history/8b3f6b80-dc27-41cb-88e9-51df312852f0

    If you use a “non-TuneIn source” to find/add custom URLS to TuneIn Radio Pro, you will avoid the issue of pre-roll ads serving inside Sonos Favorites or “new” Tunein inside Sonos. 

     

     

    Essex Girl
    Lyricist III
    July 7, 2024

    Now that legacy TuneIn is gone from the new (buggy) iOS controller and all my custom radio stations (in my case from Digitally Imported di.fm)  were gone and there is no information on the Sonos site I luckily found a way to get them back. However it involves recreating them which can be labour intensive depending on how many you have. You will also need the IOS version of TuneIn for this to work. No premium sign up required.

    Here are the instructions from TuneIn https://help.tunein.com/en/support/solutions/articles/151000172377-what-is-a-custom-url-and-how-can-i-add-it-to-sonos-

    The Custom URL feature allows you to listen to a private streaming URL, most likely not in the TuneIn directory, using the TuneIn and Sonos app.

    To add a custom URL to your Sonos:

    1. Ensure that TuneIn (new) is added on your Sonos app
    2. Log into the iOS or Android TuneIn app using the same TuneIn credentials you use on Sonos
    3. On the TuneIn app, navigate to Library
    4. Tap on customURL and enter the desired stream URL
    5. While listening to that stream, tap the favorite (heart) icon on the now playing screen
    6. Select “favorite station”
    7. Enter a name for the custom stream
    8. Return to TuneIn (new) on your Sonos app, and you should now see that station in your favorites gallery there.

    So far this works fine on my system.

    I am back in the 20th century when it comes to this stuff, but I get there slowly with a lot of trial and even more error, but what does no. 2 above mean? Is it the same user name/email and password?

    Thank you

    Essex Girl

    Isegrimm
    Trending Lyricist I
    July 7, 2024

    Now that legacy TuneIn is gone from the new (buggy) iOS controller and all my custom radio stations (in my case from Digitally Imported di.fm)  were gone and there is no information on the Sonos site I luckily found a way to get them back. However it involves recreating them which can be labour intensive depending on how many you have. You will also need the IOS version of TuneIn for this to work. No premium sign up required.

    Here are the instructions from TuneIn https://help.tunein.com/en/support/solutions/articles/151000172377-what-is-a-custom-url-and-how-can-i-add-it-to-sonos-

    The Custom URL feature allows you to listen to a private streaming URL, most likely not in the TuneIn directory, using the TuneIn and Sonos app.

    To add a custom URL to your Sonos:

    1. Ensure that TuneIn (new) is added on your Sonos app
    2. Log into the iOS or Android TuneIn app using the same TuneIn credentials you use on Sonos
    3. On the TuneIn app, navigate to Library
    4. Tap on customURL and enter the desired stream URL
    5. While listening to that stream, tap the favorite (heart) icon on the now playing screen
    6. Select “favorite station”
    7. Enter a name for the custom stream
    8. Return to TuneIn (new) on your Sonos app, and you should now see that station in your favorites gallery there.

    So far this works fine on my system.

    I am back in the 20th century when it comes to this stuff, but I get there slowly with a lot of trial and even more error, but what does no. 2 above mean? Is it the same user name/email and password?

    Thank you

    Essex Girl

    No 2 means that you have to have a TuneIn account, which is separate from your Sonos account. If you haven’t one yet, you can create one on the TuneIn website or in the TuneIn mobile app. You use that TuneIn account to login into the mobile TuneIn app and create a new list of favourites.

    When that’s done you can go back to the Sonos app. If you haven’t done already, you now add the TuneIn (new) service to Sonos, specifying your TuneIn credentials. After that your TuneIn favourites should be displayed.

    Only caveat is that Sonos only displays around 30 of your TuneIn favourites. If you have more, those won’t be displayed.

    Barrypg
    Trending Lyricist I
    July 7, 2024

    Within the standalone TuneIn app (iOS), you can reorder the list of favorites by dragging to the top only the ones you most want Sonos to display. This is needed if you have more than around 30 and want to display in Sonos any of the saved favorites which are below the 30 cut off point in the saved favorites Library. 

    Unless I’m not doing it correctly, it seems that you can only drag a saved favorite to the first place in the list. Then, when you drag another to the top, it now becomes the first in the list.

     

     

    Isegrimm
    Trending Lyricist I
    July 9, 2024

    After the mobile app update, the old TuneIn service kept disappearing in the desktop app. I kept re-adding the service to access my custom radio-stations, only for it to be removed again some hours later.

    Since somewhere last week however, this behavior stopped. The old TuneIn service now remains visible in the desktop app without me having to re-add it every couple of hours. So that's at least a small improvement in all the wreckage 😏

    Now it's a matter of waiting until Sonos communicates what will happen with the custom radio-stations stored in old TuneIn. I can't speak for others, but I have several hundreds of radio-stations in there, and as long as the new way of adding stations to Sonos favorites via the TuneIn app only seems to display about 30-ish of them, I'm not going to painstakingly add them one by one to the new TuneIn service.

    Aside from that maximum and the laborious procedure of adding stations one by one, I would like some sort of migration option, where all stations are transferred from old TuneIn to new TuneIn in one go. How hard can that be?

    I wish Sonos would be more open about their road map. It would prevent a lot of frustration with their customers.

    Miki2020
    Contributor I
    July 13, 2024

    The TuneIn app doesn't add the manual URL to the favourites, doesn't accept the name after typed

      Amb333
      Lyricist I
      August 1, 2024

      Hello community, 

      I’ve followed the various steps outlined in here but can’t add the custom URLs to my favorites in TuneIn or in Sonos, and so DI.FM is playing through TuneIn, with ads. I cannot stand ads.

      Is there another workaround available to fix this issue, that anybody is aware of?

      Thank you.

      VonAlphaBisZulu
      Contributor I
      September 2, 2024

      Wow thecaretakerUKL and starflyergold. It actually works, but man is this complicated!

      TheJFF
      Lyricist I
      September 23, 2024

      Is it me or in the Sonos iOS app, I don’t see the “favorites” section ?!?

      And how the F!ck do we edit that TuneIn list to remove or chage order of those useless station they try to force me to listen, I’m no Footballfan, why is this and Garth Brooks (I never once listent to a country station) on the top of my TuneIn ?!?

       

      The recent section is not listin my recent play… I used my Win app version, old TuneIn list click on URL, it plays ithout a problem, add to Sonos Favorite… but they are grey out in the mobile app, I can’t play them from the mobile app…

       

      Sonos realy need to integrate the URL fonction in the system without a 3rd partie app.

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