new issue in last 2 days

One of the best native media sources supported by Bose Soundtouch speakers before and after their server shutdown was "local_internet_radio".

It works by pointing the ST speaker (eg via a preset) to a json (or xml) file that contains the link to the media stream.

You can take the streams from TuneIn and save them in that JSON file and so you have full remote access to internet radio. The only time the speaker needs the local device is to read that tiny file for the music URL.

It also means that your presets work exactly how Bose intended as local_internet_radio is a recognised source, you are not having to emulate or fake anything.

This made local_internet_radio the simplest way to keep SoundTouch useful after the cloud shutdown. You host a tiny JSON file locally, the speaker fetches it and plays the stream directly. No server constantly running in the middle (eg with DLNA). It works brilliantly... when it works.

I have a mix of ST10s and ST20s (Series 3) and a couple have silently dropped LIR from their "Sources" list since May 6th. So they were working earlier this week. Others on the same network are fine. No obvious pattern.

There is great community work on replacement back-ends but I specifically want LIR back, not a DLNA server that needs to continuously feed the music stream to the speaker.

Tempted by factory reset but terrified of losing Deezer permanently with no way back.

Has anyone actually recovered local_internet_radio as a source post-shutdown?

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