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Roger Brown
Contributor II
October 4, 2019
Question

BBC

So until this week I could ask Alexa to "Play BBC Radio on Kitchen" - 'Kitchen' being a Sonos Play 3. Now that I have to go through BBC Sounds Alexa no longer recognises the command to play through the Kitchen speaker, so I am left listening to the radio on my tinny Echo Dot.
Is this something Sonos can/are likely to fix?
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      John B
      October 4, 2019
      Hi. No, Sonos won't be fixing this, because they can't. This results from action by the BBC.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/37e4e3f6-fbd2-4c14-8d72-7f7139641582
        jwsg
        Enthusiast I
        October 4, 2019
        There is a newer blog - even though the older one is still growing at over 1200 posts now.
        I would suggest commenting at https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/45fa0731-189c-43eb-8e4f-3071b8384895 instead

        Although you state Sonos "cant" fix it, the Sonos device itself can still play Tunein and supports favourites. The skill needs updating so that its possible to invoke a tunein station or favourite on the Sonos regardless of Tunein being supported on the echo device processing the voice command.

        Also what is the situation on Sonos One where Alexa is integrated?
        JulesP
        Lyricist II
        October 4, 2019
        There's a petition at Change.org to request that the BBC reverses this change with TuneIn – please sign and share.
        https://www.change.org/p/bbc-restore-bbc-radio-streams-to-tunein
        mvosloo
        Trending Lyricist III
        January 4, 2020

        Solution here

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