No Radio France via Sonos

Question

Radio France and its many substations (Musique → La Baroque is the one I used to listen to) is no longer reachable on my Sonos (S1). )   Any advice from other users?  Still comes in beautifully on my Imac via Google Chrome but unlike  my Sonos this is not connected to my stereo system.

controlav · Accepted Answer

Where are you located? If in the UK this is By Design.

buzz · Answer

Copyright owners and stations are forcing some rules. A station in one region may not want to pay Copyright fees to allow streaming to a listener in another region. With respect to commercial stations, why would a local restaurant want to pay a fee to send an advertisement to someone in another country? And there are arrangements where a station may stream through a service that brokers the fees. There can also be rule changes here too.

When a station changes its streaming arrangement, a user may need to delete and re-add the station in order to linkup with the new arrangement. Also, after a station changes its server setup it may take a few hours or days for a service, such as AUDACY to catch-up.

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