Custom radio is STILL missing for a too long time now

Hi ​@PhilippeM 

Thanks for your post!

I can’t give you a date, but I can flag this post as a feature request for you and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

Custom radio stations have been broken for 8 months since Sonos forced the new app on everyone.

Whenever I consider buying a new Move2 for the backyard, I remember you guys still haven’t fixed custom stations since the Ace fiasco.

I need the ability to add a custom streaming URL to Sonos, whether it’s through TuneIn or as a first-party feature.  This is BASIC stuff I shouldn’t need to beg to be restored on a $2000 speaker system.

​@dgies 

The feature was lost with the end of old tuneIn support on Sonos. And the new tuneIn service does not support custom stations via Sonos.

So the only way would be to add custom stations directly to Sonos own Sonos Radio service. At the moment there still are some features to fix / bring back to S2 that already worked on old S2. 
I think after S2 has come back to the old status, Sonos will start to bring new features to the system. 

There is a painfull solution to the actual shortcoming regarding custom URL. This was detailed in a post you should find here :

It works, somehow … And furthermore, there are some more problem when listening a custom URL I have also experienced:

And, last but not the least, the custom URL appears like this (in my case, using Rockradio):

https://listen.*********.***/premium_high/bluesrock.pls?listen_key=0123456789abcdef01234567

(not an actual key) although I gave it a shorter name.

We are still far away from the ideal solution we had in the old application.

So, Sonos, keep improving. We will be thankfull to ‘find’ this feature anew.

I understand that custom radio is still not available, but it seems to tell me when I try to add a station for the 2nd, 3rd, etc time that it’s already in “My Radio Stations” but this doesn’t even exist. If it does, it’s cleverly hidden.

Very disappointing that the new SONOS app does not allow the addition of new radio stations.

It will become a typical business school case on how a company which dominated a given market lost it all because of a bad business decision !

Right ​@PHG10790

I’ll just add ‘Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum’ to the post. Sonos is the sole artisan of its fall by making the update irreversible since they presumably have also updated the speaker firmware. It would have been so easy to roll back before it was too late.

Furthermore, the new application is all but easy to use. You never know what you are doing, and you must almost rely on your luck to listen to what you want. It’s a very sad story.

And none of the problem reported in that post are solved so far.

​@PHG10790 There are still some shortcomings, but radiostation can be added through the TuneIn app: https://support.sonos.com/en us/article/use-tunein-to-add-internet-radio-station-urls-to-sonos

​@106rallye what about this issue, do you have any news?

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers%2Dand%2Dmusic%2Dservices%2D229131/tunein%2Dnew%2Dcustom%2Durl%2Dbuffering%2Dproblem%2D6904141

You mean “after about 10 minutes the playback stops intermittently for a half-second or so. I don’t know whether it has to do with buffering, playback speed or the skipping? Not sure that this is a widespread issue, with only one user reporting it. Have you tried adding a radiostation this way.