Free podcast streaming for S1 - tunein deprecated?

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November 26, 2023
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Lots of old Sonos speakers. S1 user with TuneIn service for podcast streaming (NPRs Wait Wait)
The last couple of times I’ve tried to stream I get “connection to TuneIn was lost”. Do some google-fu and it says “TuneIn on S1 no longer supported”.
So I go looking for another service. I find Pocket Cast. Except to have a Pocket Cast account apparently I need to pay $40 a year. No thanks.
So is there any way for me to stream podcasts on my old system - or do I have to pay 1000’s to replace speakers / subwoofers or get yet another subscription service?

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Best answer by Airgetlam

Yes, it does. Using that PLAY:5 gen 1 is problematic, it has neither AirPlay 2 nor Bluetooth. What are the other 6 speakers?

If push came to shove, I’d probably connect a cable to the PLAY:5s line in, and when I wanted to play something from the iPhone, I’d plug the other end into the iPhone’s headphone jack…assuming you’ve also got an ancient iPhone to go with the older Sonos. Alternately, you could connect a Bluetooth receiver to that PLAY:5s line in, and just use Bluetooth from your iPhone to send the signal there. Of course, once the signal is inside the Sonos ecosystem via the line in, you can play it on any of your speakers.

Honestly, I didn’t know the old TuneIn was no longer supported on S1 (which implies S2 as well). I haven’t used TuneIn in years, since they gave up their MLB contract. I use iHeart radio to listen to the SF Giants on KNBR. Which brings up the question, have you checked if your NPR station is carried somewhere else? Sometimes, you need to check with the station.

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Lyricist II

They are all non NPR podcasts. Tony Kornheiser, Pablo Torre, etc etc. it must be a system S1 thing since the same podcasts play through Sonos app through Tune In on S2.

Airgetlam

That might be worth submitting a system diagnostic within 10 minutes of experiencing this problem, and calling Sonos Support to discuss it. There really shouldn’t be any difference in play back between S1 and S2, they would both be reaching out to the same server. I bet Sonos would be fascinated by your hard data proving it works on S2, and not on S1. Something they could hand off to a programmer to look at.

Bruce

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Lyricist II

I called Sonos Support on this. Spent 40 minutes on phone trying to diagnose issue. But no results. Said they would get back with me.

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