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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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howdojonesy

Lyricist I

Came here to say the same thing -- if you can get hold of the stream link you can add the stations as above.

For example, SomaFM have added their links

https://somafm.com/listen/uktunein.html

Some of my fav stations don’t seem to have this link - get in touch with the station to see if they can help.

SomaFM were incredibly helpful as an example for me.

Thanks for this. Couldn’t work out how to get Groove Salad from somaFM playing until I read this.

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lonestay

Trending Lyricist I

So the question is what is Sonos going to do about this ? Sonos radio was launched as a selling point to update kit get us to go to the S2 app, and now it's effectively useless for what a lot of us want it to do . Sonos must have known that tune-in had an ongoing court case that had the possibility of being found against them ? And yet they still copied it or had some sort of agreement with tune-in to use their system. Sonos don't seem to be saying a lot about this either, but after the May/June launch of S2 when Sonos radio was used as a selling point to the great new future of Sonos listening, it hasn't turned out so well. If you launch a service with a fanfare you better be able to make it work .

controlavAuthor

Lead Maestro

So the question is what is Sonos going to do about this ? Sonos radio was launched as a selling point to update kit get us to go to the S2 app, and now it's effectively useless for what a lot of us want it to do . Sonos must have known that tune-in had an ongoing court case that had the possibility of being found against them ? And yet they still copied it or had some sort of agreement with tune-in to use their system. Sonos don't seem to be saying a lot about this either, but after the May/June launch of S2 when Sonos radio was used as a selling point to the great new future of Sonos listening, it hasn't turned out so well. If you launch a service with a fanfare you better be able to make it work .

Sonos are saying literally nothing about this. So I am guessing lawyers are involved, which doesn’t bode well for UK users.

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

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Deepbass9

Contributor I

I’m glad i found this thread i have literally been going crazy the last few days deleting and reinstalling the app.

Another problem i have encountered is i can’t play my own music (through my PC) it loads the music on to the S2 app but then when i click on a folder it says “no selections are available” just wondering if anyone else is having this issue?

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John B

That issue will be local to your system but I suggest you start a new thread so that this thread can remain on topic.

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Deepbass9

Contributor I

That issue will be local to your system but I suggest you start a new thread so that this thread can remain on topic.

I think it’s linked as this problem only started on Thursday?

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u818905

Contributor I

can anyone help me play the greek radio station Koi Sushi Radio? I have tried adding manually and it says encoded wrongly. I can find it in Sonos Radio but it won’t play which is the same for several stays I search and find yet they just won't play. When I go to the actual website for Koi sushi it requires me to have a password and log in details. Any help appreciated. Thanks :)

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John B

That issue will be local to your system but I suggest you start a new thread so that this thread can remain on topic.

I think it’s linked as this problem only started on Thursday?

No there is absolutely no chance of this. How is the result of a court ruling on radio stations supposed to affect your ability to play local music files? Lots of things happened in the world last Thursday that were unrelated to the TuneIn radio ruling. My Sonos Music Library is working fine. Now can we please stop hijacking this thread?

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u818905

Contributor I

I did start this on a different thread originally and was advised to head on to this one as, as it’s related to last Thursday and TuneIn

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jay house

Avid Contributor III

Shocked that Sonos haven’t even acknowledged the problem as TuneIn have. Also Sonos Radio has only been around for 5 months and already doesn’t work anymore, that doesn’t looks good.

My guess is it’ll get sorted in a while, Sonos would have paid TuneIn for the feeds and are now not getting a service, TuneIn don’t really have a UK business without foreign radio so it’ll just be a matter of negotiating a reasonable license fee to the greedy major label suits.

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