This morning I’ve had repeated interruption of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, “due to rights restrictions this part of the programme cannot be played”. Once was during a feature about the Euros, the next was in the middle of an interview with a government minister. So no music or anything particularly sensitive.
Anyone had this before or know how to prevent it? The first instance lasted about 10 minutes.
BBC Radio 4 rights restrictions
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I’d suggest it’s different if and when Sonos hosts/stores the stream on their own servers. But if they’re acting (like TuneIn, myRadio, and others) as just an aggregator, pointing the “player/speaker” to a server designated by the company streaming the data, there’s just not much Sonos can do.
In the case of the BBC, as with many streaming stations, they are the ones responsible. The stream comes from their servers, any interruption comes from their servers. Given that Sonos and other companies merely point to a BBC server leaves there little that Sonos can do about the situation, other than contact the BBC. And given that there’s no financial relationship between Sonos and the BBC, their complaints would likely carry less weight than a complaint from someone who pays the necessary tax in the UK. Which leaves us Yanks with basically no voice at all, other than as an outsider.
For what it’s worth, Sonos Radio does muddy what was previously a fairly clear division. But even Sonos Radio isn’t all just Sonos content, some of it is just further aggregation of other people’s servers/data streams. Not all of it, though.
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