Fast forward for TuneIn Radio

Are you sure you understand the concept of radio? There is no fast forward on radio, radio is almost always a live broadcast.

Or am I not getting want you are trying to say?

Hi - thanks for the reply but yes you are misunderstanding my question. I did say catchup, so by that I mean listening to a radio show after it’s been on. I’m aware Sonos can’t time travel. Thanks. 

Sorry, I didn't know there was such a thing as a catch up possibility on TuneIn in the Sonos app. Can you post a screenshot?

Tune-In is mostly live-radio based, perhaps try a podcast service, like pocket-casts or stitcher etc; from the Sonos built-in services and see if that may work a little better for you… I think pocket-casts allows the user to easily scrub both forwards/backwards through a recorded programme from within the ‘Now Playing’ screen.

If you go into TuneIn via the sonos app (PC) and type in a radio show name, make sure the “podcasts & shows” part is selected, then you can pick “recent episodes”

For example: 

It works ok and plays but you can’t scan forward, but you can using TuneIn directly. 

although this itself isn’t a great example because these are actually podcasts…. but there are other shows I listen to that are the whole show.

Thank you, appreciate the reply but that isn’t actually a solution. I like listening to the whole show sometimes, not a podcast. You can scrub but it fails to load, but it does work via TuneIn directly.

I suspect the answer to this is that Sonos doesn't use the TuneIn service in any real sense. There is no integration, and it doesn't use the Sonos open API.

All TuneIn does is provide a URL lookup for stations,  podcasts and shows. Sonos then goes and fetches the stream itself. So there is no reason why any facility on TuneIn should be available on Sonos.

This is also why you can't access a TuneIn Pro or Premium account through Sonos. 

At least that's how it used to be and I am not aware that it has changed.

(Having said that, it's not unreasonable to think you would be able to skip forward,)

Thanks John, I get what you are saying, but this is just a URL as you say. Its not pro or premium. It just doesn’t work. 

It isn’t that it doesn’t work, because that starts from the position that what works in TuneIn should work on Sonos.  The point about Pro and Premium was an aside.  It isn’t only not Pro or Premium, it’s not TuneIn!

I’m not sure I understand, you are saying that because it works on TuneIn it doesn’t mean is has to work in Sonos? 

Surely the fact you can do it on one means you can expect it to work on another, it is a source Sonos consumes, the data is there to be pulled down. I don’t think that is unreasonable, but Sonos should be able to say why it doesn’t work.