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Same, getting the French channel!

Does anyone have an extremely longstanding issue where asking Google to play a song on Spotify can often get it wrong or play a more obscure version of the song, not the most obvious popular and top choice within the Spotify app. Not sure if its a Google issue or Spotify issue. It seems to better when asking it to play a song on YouTube Music and the sceptic in me wonders is this a tactic to drive people off Spotify and over to YT Music. It has annoyed me a for a long time now I would have thought it was time this got good.

My Google Home Hub seems to have lost the ability to stream radio stations from Tunein since this afternoon.

When I say "play rte radio one" it replies "I don't know but here are some results I found on the web"

It still works on the small Google home.

Edited to add: in fairness, its working again today (17th)

Seriously the radio issue again!!!!!

Alexa - plays radio 1, cannot answer basic questions

Google - cannot play radio 1, gives very accurate answers to questions.

Lost the ability to stream a UK radio station (Kerrang) since start of July.

Per redditt there seems to be a workaround to international restrictions implemented by TuneIn by using the Simple Radio app, i.e. "tell Simple Radio to play XYZ radio" - but I can't get this to work either - has anyone got Simple Radio to work? Have the app installed on my phone and the station plays fine on the phone - I know I can cast but would like it to work as it should!

RTE radio 1, cuts out a lot, anyone else?

I have vodafone giga, but have noticed other issues in the house. Is there any easy way to diagnose this? It just reports 800+ plus speed all the time.

Is 2.4 not a stronger connection, but lower bit rate - which should not be an issue for streaming radio?

Does the Google Nest Hub Max still exist? I see the smaller screen ones everywhere but the bigger one seems harder to find?

Somebody might have a quick fix for me. I installed a Google Battery Doorbell yesterday and was getting the ding dong on my Nest mini speakers. This morning I have been ringing the bell but nothing ringing inside the house. I have announcements "ON" and don't think I have done anything to upset my previous set-up. And I am still getting notifications to my phone. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. w4m

Bauer media are pulling some of their UK stations from TuneIn, including my personal favourite Kerrang Radio - means it won't work through voice control on Google speakers any more. Have managed to sideload the radioplayer.co.uk app which will continue to be supported, so would be able to cast from that - but nowhere near as convenient.

https://planetradio.co.uk/kerrang/station/on-air/changes-to-streaming-listening/

I can't find any media on this, but I assume Planet Rock etc will be affected in time, hope this doesn't spillover into the Irish stations that they've just acquired - hopefully it's just their fringe stations they're doing this for and not the main stations.

Interesting move, bit of a backlash against TuneIn beginning?

Is there a way to get Google Assistant to keep displaying a timer on a Hub? This is for cooking, where I set a timer for, say, 10 minutes for something to simmer. I want to be able to just look over and see what's left, but if I'm using the hub to also listen to a radio station, the timer always disappears and I have to ask to see it again. And it disappears again after a few seconds.

I can’t get RTÉ radio 1 on my Google home mini for the past few days. When I try it says “it either isn’t available or it can’t be played right now”. Any ideas how I could fix this? Have tried turning power off and on again.

Have been getting the same with mainly gold, but one now as well. Until yesterday changing "play rte gold" to "play rte gold on TuneIn" worked, but now that's not working either.

Only workaround for me so far has been casting TuneIn to the speaker, pretty counter intuitive.