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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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    controlav
    controlavAuthor
    Lead Maestro
    September 25, 2020

    I am not sure your answer makes sense. Firstly because it assumes everyone is now complying. 

    Also because a station publishing its own links is rather different from a service that provides links to tens of thousands of stations with which it has no association, is it not?

    And also inserts ads and monetizes the listings of those streams. Which if you read the court case was the crux of the problem.

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      John B
      September 25, 2020

      Ah, good point @controlav . Although presumably it does that with licensed UK stations? Must be an interaction of unlicensed and monetised.

      Paoloski
      Lyricist I
      October 1, 2020

      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.

      Hi, I tried the URL you kindly provided but I get a message informing  it’s not encoded properly 

      John B
      October 1, 2020

      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.

      Hi, I tried the URL you kindly provided but I get a message informing  it’s not encoded properly 

      The link provided is a web page, not a streaming URL.  The URLs are on the web page 

        Martin12345678
        Contributor I
        October 4, 2020

        Jeg syntes tit jeg ikke kan finde danske podcasts.

        nu her f.eks berlinske og JP.

        ender tit op med at bare afspille via iPad lyd

         

        hvad gør i?

        Sabby
        Contributor I
        October 4, 2020

        Hi all, like others, my favorite radio station has disappeared and I can’t find how to get the URL so that I can add it manually. Is anyone able to help? I searched the internet but no idea where to find it. It was Deep House Music on Sonos Radio. 

         

        Cheers 

        dotcodotuk
        Lyricist III
        October 6, 2020

        Thank you very, very much for creating this thread and special thanks to anyone who mentioned adding a URL directly.  
         

        I have been listening to Proton Radio via TuneIn for well over a decade and access to Proton via TuneIn was the sole reason I bought into the Sonos ecosystem.  I thought all was lost and I would not be able to listen to my favourite station and artists via my Sonos system for the foreseeable future!


        For anyone wanting to know the direct URL to stream Proton, the following has worked for me: http://www.protonradio.com/proton.m3u

         

        I honestly would not know what to do with myself without being able to listen to Proton, so hopefully that URL will help others in my position and perhaps even introduce new people to the music and artists they feature; Transitions from John Digweed, Terminal from Cream; Looq Radio from Jondi and Spesh; Mind over Matter from Embliss... I could go on and on!

         

        PS. If you recognise any of those shows and/or artists and can recommend a similar station to Proton, please post the URL!

          Philips999
          Trending Lyricist I
          October 9, 2020

          This problem also seems to be affecting my use of Sonos Radio - there seem to be a large number of stations that don’t work.  Is Sonos Radio, apart from the exclusive streams, simply a wrapper around TuneIn?  If so, does Sonos have any plans to replace TuneIn with another radio database as its default service?
           

            Airgetlam
            Airgetlam
            October 9, 2020

            Fir some stations, I believe so. But not all. 

            Bruce
            nashienet
            Avid Contributor I
            October 10, 2020

            Hi,

            This isn't the biggest problem in the world but it's a tad annoying. If I want to listen to the Lore podcast I browse TuneIn using the sonos app and select the episode to listen to, but it usually doesn't work the first time I try to play it. It may work on the second, third or fourth attempt. It always works eventually but it always takes a while.

             

            I have no issues with my network music library or with streaming from amazon music. So I presume the problem is specifically related to TuneIn.

             

            Anyone else having issues?

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