radio.net dead on Sonos

As far as I can see radio.net is a German company (https://corporate.radio.net/about-us/). Of course this could be about copyright issues in other countries, but since Sonos seems to cater for location based access there would be no need to remove it from Sonos completely - Germany included.

@bockersjv I’ve seen comments about changes relating to being able to listen to certain stations (Spain springs to mind) from the UK since the UK left the EU - since you are UK-based according to your profile, are your referring to that? The complete removal of radio.net form Sonos seems different. Without comment from Sonos or radio.net we can’t say though.

Yes I was referring to that, but I don’t think it was because of Brexit, dumb as that was.

I suggest that you use “my tuner radio station” which is still supported by Sonos.  Delete all the radio.net stations and get them through “my tuner”

Thats what I tried doing but unfortunately a lot of radio.net stations are not available on mytuner. 

Might be worth reaching out to each individual station, and ask them what aggregation service they’ve chosen to be associated with, now that radio.net is gone. Or at least check their websites to se if it is mentioned. There are many aggregators always competing for exclusivity, and you may also have the option to try , via the information in the FAQ, setting up an internet radio station . 

This is terrible as it was the only app I used on my 4 SonosOne devices.

Yea I can stream bluetooth from my phone to my Sonos but that’s an expensive bluetooth speaker at that point with no functionality beyond being a bluetooth speaker.

I don’t know who is at fault, but it sucks for me that’s for sure.  Sonos just gets worse and worse (it does, yes it does).  Thankfully I have only minimally been burned by this new style of subscription based technology and don’t own a car I have to pay to update and can't drive if the update fails.  Yet.

They’re slowly locking us into their walled garden of Google, Amazon, and Spotify owned services.  Soon what?  Apple buys Sonos and makes it Apple Music only and bricks millions of devices?

This business model is trash and only hurts us, consumers.  An MP3 collection, a Network Area Storage Device, and some kind of Chinese made speaker looks like a mighty good alternative at this point.  The only option perhaps.

BTW if you have a cached channel streaming to your device you can still stream from Radio.net just fine.  They removed the app but they aren’t preventing devices from receiving the streams lol.

It really is a lot of nonsense. I can still use the internet stations blocked via sonos using a simple web browser. It is not sonos to blame but the UK legal system that  entertain requests from music giants to block channels from selected streaming hardware platforms like sonos, while you can still legally access the stations directly via a browser on the internet. I think it is time to use a permanent VPN setup in my router -;) 

It's so frustrating, I have sonos arc and sonos one x2 they are without bluetooth so now I can't listen to my favorite Polish radio stations. My teenager was listening to radio with me and was lerning polish language at the same time 😩 

I listened to Radio marbella and Deep House radio.  Both were available on My Tuner a couple of weeks ago. They will now not play. If i use my VPN Sonos does not work. I'm still trying to find a way of getting them back. Anyone got any suggestions?  😊 TIA 

I think MyTuner is now also blocking UK a listeners from accessing non U.K. stations - what a disaster ! Can’t get Irish stations or search by location anymore.