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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TuneIn used to very good with no ads. Now it has excessive ads and has buffering problems. I have cancelled and have no intention to return. It was how I listened to AM talk radio in my Tesla but it b... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TuneIn is sold as the internet radio service with a lot of streamers. In the UK, following a court case brought by Sony and Warners, TuneIn was forced to block many (well, all the ones worth listeni... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Turn Out Tunein If anything drove me away from any product it would be the torture of hearing their adds on the Tunein app. Talk about controlling the air waves forcing you to submit to lack of t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fifteen years ago, tunein.com was the greatest streaming radio app, but now it requires 5 minutes of listening to loud commercials before you're able to hear any broadcast---and even longer when the... See more

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  1. Electronics & Technology

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TuneIn Inc. is an American audio streaming service delivering live news, radio, sports, music, and podcasts to over 60 million monthly active users.


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  • Townsend Street 139, 94107, San Francisco, Canada

  • tunein.com

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Link a total different radio stream to a wrong station

We requested an update to our stream. TuneIn picked a stream from a rock station and linked it to a deep house radio station. This is a joke. This is not an error but pure unprofessionalism. The streaming urls were clearly provided, changed the banner perfectly but not the stream.

--- update 10/7

After I mailed them you would expect they fixed this problem. No, did this for the second time.

Something weird is going on with this company. When I visit their FB page linked in the footer section on the official website I landed on a hacked page?

October 7, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Tune in on Sonos - Too many Ads

Tune in on Sonos is not good.
I just chose a Radio channel to play on Sonos called "Meditations" ...nice, chilled, relaxed right? Wrong. Before the station on Tune In played a very loud add about Football came on. Like super loud with music, sirens, a loud voice... then the "Tune in" voice and now a stupid ad for Shopify, which has just repeated. Annoyingly as Wi-fi can be patchy sometimes sonos drops the signal multiple times in a minute, each time it returns TUNE IN plays the same stupid Shopify Ad. I hate shopify and I don't like Tune in.

September 8, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor

I used TuneIn for years to listen daily to world class news programs from public broadcasters in Germany and France. But now the offer of radio stations is limited and mediocre.
In the past months, TuneIn dropped Radio France and now it has also dropped the German public radio DLF. With this move, TuneIn has become completely useless.

August 30, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not give tunein your credit card.

Emailed support to cancel. Support confirmed cancellation. Received email saying I was about to be charged if I didn't cancel, so I emailed support again.
Support team confirmed I was cancelled. Days later I was charged $9.99. Beware of this company and do not give them your credit card.

July 27, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've been in contact with this company…

I've been in contact with this company over several days. I've been telling them any radio station station I tried to ,listen to stops playing after about 10-20 minutes. The amount of stuff theyve asked me to do is ridiculous! Including recording (audibly) and sending it to them. I listen on google speakers. I've been having this issue for about a month. I've done all that can be done. It's not my speakers, google app or my internet. Checked all of the above. This only happens on tunein. Everything on iheart radio works fine. If you're expecting any help from tunein support, good luck! I also sent them the call numbers and letters of a couple of stations in question which they asked for. Poor....extremely poor and lazy support. I suggest iheart for radio listeners.

July 26, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Tunein is the worst radio player ever…

Tunein is the worst radio player ever now.
I use amazon echos so it defaults to tunein for the radio.
It keeps going off there's pointless adds all the time I'm fed up of it.
ARE YOU LYSTENING AMAZON ILL CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION TO YOU IF YOU DONT SORT YOUR RADIO PLAYER OUT

June 29, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is a very dishonest company

I signed up for a $1/month deal but then received an email saying that I would be charged $7.99/month despite my subscription in my account still saying I should be charged $1/month. When I wrote to the company to confirm my $1/month subscription, they said the would not honor the deal I was offered without any explanation and that I should cancel my subscription unless I wanted to pay $7.99. This is a very dishonest company that you should avoid.

May 18, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Horrible App

Horrible App. Commercials ALL THE FN TIME. I literally just turned up the volume and it went to commercial. Often when I get a text, it will go to commercial. IT is a horrible app. Greedy Greedy Greedy

May 10, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Genocidal propaganda on the airwaves

I have on numerous occasions over the last 6 months been subject to advertisements from the false state of Israel, trying to justify their murderous actions in Palestine and begging for support in their occupation and theft of land. Clearly with public sentiment turning so far against them they have to buy advertising space to try and leech more support from less informed people.

Oddly enough I do not want to hear genocidal propaganda on my way to work in the morning. There is no way to dislike an advert on the app, and I absolutely will not be buying a premium subscription if these are the type of people the company partners with.

I understand they are a business and adverts keep them running but there is no excuse for partnering with such companies especially with all the evidence of their war crimes so easily available.

April 4, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

SUCKS!!

SUCKS!!! Doesn't have just a few commercials per hour but many. Sometimes over 3 minutes. I wish there was an alternative.

March 29, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Death by adverts

Considering going back to an old radio just to get rid of tunein.
Death by adverts. change radio station, more tunein advserts followed possibly by radio station adverts.
Now they have added in "This is tunein"
I just want to listen to the radio!

December 12, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst junk ever !

Tune in premium came with my Tesla Model-Y 2023-24. Absolutely the only bad part of my car. Endless repeating ads on most stations notwithstanding they advertise “Premium” being mostly ad free. Did not renew my subscription when the free monthlong subscription ended. Bought Sirius XM on my phone and just connected through Bluetooth to my Tesla. Works like a charm and music is great without ads. Highly recommend!

December 6, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fox News Radio on Tunein sucks!!

Fox News Radio on Tunein sucks!!! To many commercials and the most annoying thing is it constantly goes back 5 seconds and plays the same thing you just heard again and again!!! So stupid!!!

September 7, 2023
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