TuneIn not playing stored favourites or many radion broadcasts.

There was a recent legal decision in the UK that could have affected the availability of some non-UK stations. Does TuneIn list them but fail to play them, or does it not even list them any more?

For info here: https://torrentfreak.com/tunein-radio-infringed-sony-warners-copyrights-high-court-rules-191101/

Thanks for that link. That probably explains why o/seas stations are off limits then. Pity as I now have no way of streaming these stations through a Sonos. Even If I  VPN as though I’m in the contry doesn’t get me round that problem. :-(

TuneIn shows them but doesn’t play them

Though Sonos still market TuneIn as a service to radio worldwide, so I’m wondering if the issue is with Sonos? Perhaps Sonos care to comment please

I have the same issue. It just started today. I guess it’s a smaller world from now on, unless anyone has a solution or a paid service where we can still access them?

If you have a direct url for the stream you can add that to your Sonos using the desktop controller, that will work unless the radio station also implement geo-blocking.

If you go into Settings → Services & Voice → Add A Service, and from the list select and install another radio service, e.g. myTuner Radio, you can play and save stations that you might have recently lost. I did this for all the SomaFM stations, which had suddenly become unavailable in the Sonos app 2 days ago. Presumably these other stations have taken care of the licensing arrangements for users in the UK and elsewhere. I don’t know how good the streaming quality is for myTuner radio, because the Sonos app does not state the bit rate on the Now Playing screen -- Developers -- can this be implemented in a future iteration of the app, please? It’s useful to know the streaming quality of our favourite radio stations.

I believe Sonos Radio just uses TuneIn Radio for most of it’s radio streams anyway so once TuneIn stops working so does Sonos Radio.

Hopefully the licensing issues can be sorted otherwise TuneIn, and by association, Sonos Radio are basically defunct in the UK.

Hello,

Would be great to see an official answer on this instead of speculation.

The Spanish & German stations I listen through via Tunein have stopped working.

The same stations are available via SONOS radio but they won’t work through there either.

Makes my SONOS system slightly less valuable to me than it was as I’m going to have to find other ways of accessing/listening.

I’m using the SONOS OS S2 and am up to date. 

Does anyone have any work arounds?

THANK YOU! 

As I said above: “If you have a direct url for the stream you can add that to your Sonos using the desktop controller“