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Contributor I
June 6, 2024
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my Tuner Radio

  • June 6, 2024
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I can no longer play radio stations from around the world using the My Tuner Radio on my Sonos speakers. As this was one of the main reasons for buying Sonos I’m not very happy. Has anyone  had the same issue, is there a solution, does Sonos know etc. 

if it cant be fixed I will be selling my Sonos and going with another system. 

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Best answer by RobNeko

I can no longer play radio stations from around the world using the My Tuner Radio on my Sonos speakers. As this was one of the main reasons for buying Sonos I’m not very happy. Has anyone  had the same issue, is there a solution, does Sonos know etc. 

if it cant be fixed I will be selling my Sonos and going with another system. 

I’ve now got an answer from myTunerRadio App. They have confirmed that the UK is blocked from receiving radio stations from outside of the country. What a tiny isolated place we have become. 

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Lyricist I
August 7, 2024

Sonos should provide Airable as an option then. That doesn't seem complex to me

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Prodigy II
August 9, 2024

Sonos should provide Airable as an option then. That doesn't seem complex to me

I suspect the details and what’s required are more involved than you think.

airable are more than just a radio link aggregator, their api integrates music platform services, such as Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and even video content for smart TV platforms.

As a b2b offering it’s not just a case of asking them to hook into the Sonos api, which is most likely what mytuner did. It works the opposite direction where you use a certified hardware partner or you integrate the airable api into your own platform, with appropriate agreements and ndas signed.

https://airablenow.com/airable/airable-api/

Could Sonos integrate airable? If they wanted to sure, it should be possible. Is it worth adding the complexity and costs when Sonos already provide an api for content providers to use? Is it sensible to tie themselves into maintaining a 3rd party api in their own code when content providers have the ability to integrate themselves?

I doubt airable would integrate themselves into the Sonos api without a compelling reason. It would turn their offering on it’s head, likely impact all their content provider contracts, potentially impact their clients and provide them with what benefit?

In reality I’d guess, now we fall outside of the EU, the UK isn’t a big enough share of global revenues to explore, invest and deal with the on-going costs and overhead of doing something required only for the small? (even vs all uk based users) number of international radio users in the UK.

Lyricist II
August 18, 2024

Thank you Brexit, let's remove more freedoms. 

At least we have a blue passport printed in Poland

Enthusiast I
August 18, 2024

My suggestion for anyone specifically suffering this issue is to dump Sonos (most people are anyway going by their declining share price and desperate, albeit late apologies) and buy into Cambridge Audio which seem to care about their customers and more importantly, use Airable