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controlav
Lead Maestro
September 13, 2020

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

  • 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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    John B
    September 15, 2020

    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

    Please read carefully.  My comment was addressed to the person who thinks the problem with his Sonos Music Library is related, not to you.  I am sure your problem is related.

    Deepbass9
    Contributor I
    September 15, 2020

    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?

    You need to retreat to your safe space John stop being such a snowflake nobody is hijacking anything!

      controlav
      controlavAuthor
      Lead Maestro
      September 15, 2020

      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?


      Totally unrelated. Please, create a new thread.

      Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
      HairyHippy
      HairyHippy
      Contributor I
      September 15, 2020

      @controlav Please could you tag this thread with Sonos Radio as well as the other 3 you already have.

      Had a long chat with Sonos support today…

      I suggest all users do the same as per the last screenshot you’ll hopefully be notified when it’s resolved.  I’ve only included the screenshots from towards the end of the chat and basically once it was admitted there was an issue and being worked on.  I have saved the transcript however...

       

       

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      nik9669a
      Senior Virtuoso
      September 15, 2020

      Interesting to note that according to the above post, Sonos “is well aware of this issue and trying to fix”, yet the Status of services is showing all services, INCLUDING TUNE-IN as “Operational” with not even a Partial Outage noted.

      HairyHippy
      HairyHippy
      Contributor I
      September 15, 2020

      Interesting to note that according to the above post, Sonos “is well aware of this issue and trying to fix”, yet the Status of services is showing all services, INCLUDING TUNE-IN as “Operational” with not even a Partial Outage noted.

      Yes, I wouldn’t hold your breath...

      jan_buelens
      Avid Contributor I
      September 15, 2020

      Irony or ironies. Yesterday I received an email from Sonos inviting me to take part in a survey about Sonos Radio. 

      So there’s clearly a well functioning marketing machine at work here. Why didn’t use it to warn me of what was happening?

        HairyHippy
        HairyHippy
        Contributor I
        September 15, 2020

        Off topic:  I wonder why the UK arms of these two companies decided to sue in the UK rather than in the US (their parent companies) against TuneIn, also US based.  Probably will happen and used UK as a Guinea pig.  I doubt will affect Warner but Sony should be careful as likely to have a back lash on their consumer products.

        DeanShaw
        Enthusiast I
        September 16, 2020

        Thanks for the heads up re Mytuner radio. Set the app up and can listen again to 80s80s Depeche Mode, 80s80s Bowie and Deep House Ibiza.

        Airgetlam
        Airgetlam
        September 16, 2020

        For what it’s worth, I’d expect the MyTuner Radio usage to be temporary. The lawyers are going after TuneIn as the biggest radio provider company, but if they’re successful, expect them to go after smaller providers as well. 

        Bruce
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