Roam & TuneIn - Some Stations working, others not?

It might (and I haven’t looked, tbh) that is has to do with the agreement between TuneIn and the BBC. More specifically, what the BBC has rights to broadcast internationally, which isn’t all of their content. Which is why BBC sounds exists, I suspect. 

Check on the TuneIn website and see if you can play it there. If not, then it’s the above. If you can, then there’s some other thing going on. 

Airgetlam, Mr T, many thanks for the information. 

Blimey that’s quite a step on the BBC’s part which I had no idea about. I have installed the BBC Sounds Service and in fairness it works very nicely.

In fact I only found out about this as planned travels meant the need for a VPN package to mimic locality. I had not even considered the service provision itself.

I only hope that after these steps that the wifi is solid. The area we are going to is notorious for poor internet performance. 

Thanks again folks for the superb support. I think I used my quota of Sonos ‘asks’ this week …. all with exceptional answers from a great community …. as always.

It’s hard to ‘lay the blame’ anywhere, since much of the geographic restrictions placed on many streamers, including the BBC,  are due to legal issues with broadcast rights, which, at least in my opinion, boils down to money, and laws. And, of course, by extension, lawyers. 

I’ve got mixed feelings about it, as I do believe the artists should be compensated properly. But I’ve also done some work in a past job trying to wrangle rights to play specific music pieces across various countries, so I’m a little more aware about what a rats nest of legal issues there is. Which leads me inevitably to the conclusion that if there is any question about rights, it ends up easier to restrict, than broadcast everywhere. 

Sad position to be in, perhaps in the future we’ll be able to resolve this properly. But it sure isn’t going to be an easy thing to do, if it ever happens. And unfortunately, it’s not overly visible to us as end users, either. 

A tad rough laying it at a French impressionist artist’s door Airgetlam 😀 …. OK yes, a cheap spelling based gag that I could not miss.

Yes I cannot claim to know too much about this area although I do remember recently being a trip where I wanted watch the F1 and assumed that would be easy …  smartphone to in house hotel TV. Wrong, territory based restrictions in the ME put paid to that.

So this time I was trying out Norton 360 VPN in preparation for that when I found this one. 

Interesting insight you describe there. Makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for pointing out the autocorrect fail. Kind of amusing :)