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Tune-In blocking foreign radio stations in the UK Master thread

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
September 13, 2020
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As Sonos don’t seem to want to, lets try and consolidate the TuneIn UK problem into one master thread.

What we know: starting last Thursday, TuneIn in the UK started blocking all foreign radio stations. They did this because of a lawsuit they lost in November 2019.

Some have also claimed that Sonos Radio is also affected.

The known work-arounds are:

Add the direct streaming url of the station to the Sonos system (only available to PC and Mac users detailed here
Try a different radio station aggregator (eg radio.com)

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User425938

Lyricist III

When i add an URL and try to play it I get the message ‘The song is not encoded correctly.’ This is via Live365. Any ideas.

controlavAuthor

Lead Maestro

When i add an URL and try to play it I get the message ‘The song is not encoded correctly.’ This is via Live365. Any ideas.

Your URL is probably wrong. It needs to be the actual stream, not an HTML page, which is the usual mistake.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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User425938

Lyricist III

Thanks but how do i get to the URL for Live365 - any ideas. What i used was the url i saw when playing the station on Live365 but that is obviously wrong.

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Its_Alex

Contributor I

follow these instructions

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/260?language=en_US#:~:text=Select%20Manage%20and%20Add%20Radio,added%20station%20will%20be%20listed.

using the direct link you have posted

Unfortunately the instructions use TuneIn to access the stream - this is what has stopped working this morning :(

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User425938

Lyricist III

Restricted URL. The streaming URL requires a login to access it or includes an expiring token in the URL. Some streaming hosts (ex. Live365, myradiostream, Listen2myradio) offer a premium service that is required in order to use their streams outside of their own platform.

controlavAuthor

Lead Maestro

Thanks but how do i get to the URL for Live365 - any ideas. What i used was the url i saw when playing the station on Live365 but that is obviously wrong.

Do you mean “Live 365 Dev Radio”? I can’t play that from TuneIn but I am in the USA, so that might be an unrelated issue.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

controlavAuthor

Lead Maestro

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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User425938

Lyricist III

So i cannot get my favourite USA station on Sonos Radio, TuneIn, My Radio Player or via an URL.

Sonos is doing a good job on this one!

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bigboy141414

Contributor I

Can anyone help me. Up until the last week I’ve been listening to Mix fm from Iheart radio on me of the Sonos radio stations All of a sudden it has stopped. I press play and it goes back to stop. On many other sonos radio stations this is also happening please help!

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thegoatboy

Contributor I

follow these instructions

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/260?language=en_US#:~:text=Select%20Manage%20and%20Add%20Radio,added%20station%20will%20be%20listed.

using the direct link you have posted

Unfortunately the instructions use TuneIn to access the stream - this is what has stopped working this morning :(

If i use the tunein app to look for the stations I am using they do not work, but following those instruction have worked for me.

Once you have added the stream you need to navigate via the app to:

Browse (note icon at the bottom of the app) >Tunein>My Radio stations

You don’t access them from the My sonos page.

I am accessing blocked streams on my sonos device right now as it is a direct link.

*UPDATE*

I used the link you posted - https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc193 and I can confirm I can listen to this station if you follow the steps here.

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