radio.net dead on Sonos

I suspect It was a regulatory change initiated by Sony, Warner and other money grabbing corporates so RAdio.net and Tune in can no longer play overseas channels.  It is not something Sonos has control over anyway. :(

Further evidence of the Sh**ification and commercialisation of the web.

This has been a HUGE disappointment for me.  I’ve lost 85% of my favorite stations and now I can only listen to platforms that have advertising.  I wish I could subscribe to radio.net’s service and get it on my Sonos but it doesn’t look like that’s possible.  

For me, Sonos was a way to listen to music around my house but with this and the ever ending changes to the streaming services, I am getting close to pulling the plug on Sonos altogether.  

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So, radio.net is removed at the request of radio.net, and you are here threatening to dump Sonos?  Not a very effective method of pressuring the party responsible to change their mind.

I'm very disappointed at this news. I do hope radio.net will be back.

Easy killer, no one is threatening anyone and just for the record you have zero clue why radio.net discontinued its Sonos partnership.  Just because Sonos is telling you so doesn’t explain the story. 

This is beyond frustrating for someone who has relied on about 30 saved classical music radio stations. Heads should roll, but I don’t know whose. However, there is a work around. If you have the radio.net app on your phone or iPad (requires a minimal annual subscription) you can airplay saved radio stations direct to your Sonos speaker instead of going via the Sonos app. Btw, the Sonos Radio app is totally useless for anyone with a serious knowledge of classical music.

If think the idea Sonos would risk the liability of lying about a partner's action in an official statement on their own website stretches believability.  They'd be slapped with a lawsuit faster than you can say call my lawyer. But yeah, go with that.   

And I didn't say you threatened anyone.  You threatened to dump Sonos, as I stated very clearly.

And a lot of these issues have to do with copyrights, and the ‘authorization’ to distribute the content across international borders.
I spent a couple of years chasing lawyers and playback rights for various songs that we had planned to put in a game, but hadn’t written or owned the music. Talk about a nightmare. The rights were all over the place, especially depending on the age of the songs. And, you tend to forget the easy ones, just because you spend so much time on the hard ones.

The world is changing. Authorization to play various pieces of music (and other content!) in different countries has by no way kept pace with the technology. Frankly, I’m surprised many of these congregation companies like TuneIn and radio.net haven’t been sued by rights holders before this. 

I believe there was a successful lawsuit against TuneIn but I see they have now updated their app and introduced a subscription.

I think they’ve always had a subscription option, but that doesn’t necessarily fix the copyright issues of ‘playing’ in other countries.