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Sonos still doesn't play internet radio stations

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 25, 2024
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Why still after 4 months Sonos didn't sort out problem playing Internet Radio stations through MyTuner Radio???

Especially foreign internet radio stations. Any current update on it , please??

Good I haven't wasted money in buying more speakers from Sonos, yet..

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Best answer by kpr

If you are in the UK you may be suffering from georestrictions that seemed to happen in Spring. I can’t now find the exact article that explained why at least some foreign stations are blocked in the UK.

Some have had success defining custom urls in the TuneIn app and favoriting there. They’ll then show up in Sonos in the TuneIn (New) service.

Follow these instructions if you want to try that method:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/use-tunein-to-add-internet-radio-station-urls-to-sonos

You can find some stations’ urls e.g. in this website:

http://fmstream.org/index.php?c=FT

Earlier post discussing similar:

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Why still after 4 months Sonos didn't sort out problem playing Internet Radio stations through MyTuner Radio???

Especially foreign internet radio stations. Any current update on it , please??

Good I haven't wasted money in buying more speakers from Sonos, yet..

I have a number of stations in my favourites and they are working fine.
What steps have you tried, to get it working? Try deleting and then re-enabling MyTuner.

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SprinterAuthor

Contributor I

Hi, I've deleted cache of the app then uninstalled it and rebooted my phone. Installed app again, added MyTuner Radio back and searched for stations. UK stations work nearly all but German, Czech, Slovak not even one. I try to play straight from the search or to add them to my favourites but nothing helps so far.

Sonos is doing nothing otherwise I guess it would have been already sorted. On Yamaha receiver platform to make MyTuner Radio working, I have to pay I think £3 a year. I don't mind it with Sonos though. Their speakers have brilliant sound

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Have you contacted MyTuner?

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SprinterAuthor

Contributor I

No haven't tried that. All problems started with Sonos update in March 2024 or May 2024..

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kprAnswer

Prodigy I

If you are in the UK you may be suffering from georestrictions that seemed to happen in Spring. I can’t now find the exact article that explained why at least some foreign stations are blocked in the UK.

Some have had success defining custom urls in the TuneIn app and favoriting there. They’ll then show up in Sonos in the TuneIn (New) service.

Follow these instructions if you want to try that method:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/use-tunein-to-add-internet-radio-station-urls-to-sonos

You can find some stations’ urls e.g. in this website:

http://fmstream.org/index.php?c=FT

Earlier post discussing similar:

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JamesTinMW

Contributor I

I’m in the UK and the only work around I found is to tell Alexa to open my tuner radio and then tell it to play the radio station you want. Weirdly it won’t work on the app (Sonos or Alexa)

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Muzzer100

Enthusiast I

This answer was really helpful, thank you, and the key is the site with the streaming URLs. Thanks to you I’ve now, despite the best efforts of the Sonos exec broligarchy, got my favourite US public radio stations back across the house, much appreciated.

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