Does anyone else think yradio.vtuner.com is awful?

You have to go to a web site yradio.vtuner.com and set up an account. Then you can bookmark away on that site. The tuner gets them almost instantly. The site is clunky with outdated UI but, at least it works! It is fairly painless and when done, it's done.

Yes, two years later, and vTuner still really sucks. Lots of podcasts I've bookmarked there just don't even play on the Yamaha, and I can't even manually add in a working replacement. You also can't pause playback, you can only STOP, which brings you back to the main menu.

vTuner hasn't changed or been updated in years. Yamaha needs to ditch it and replace it with something better.

Fofer said:

Yes, two years later, and vTuner still really sucks. Lots of podcasts I've bookmarked there just don't even play on the Yamaha, and I can't even manually add in a working replacement. You also can't pause playback, you can only STOP, which brings you back to the main menu.

vTuner hasn't changed or been updated in years. Yamaha needs to ditch it and replace it with something better.

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I know onkyo ditched vtiner and went with TuneIn radio


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nohcho said:

I know onkyo ditched vtiner and went with TuneIn radio

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Yes, I saw that. That was a good move on Onkyo's part. If anything else goes wrong with my Yamaha, I'll be seriously looking at Onkyo's receivers now.

It seems obvious to me that nobody's minding the store at vTuner. There are so many things wrong with it, it's not even worth listing them all. It's 2016. Integrated streaming support for internet radio, and podcasts, shouldn't be as clunky as vTuner is.

Yes, I could always just send the audio from appropriate applications on my laptop or smartphone. But if I'm buying a new receiver that has support for the same content, it would be nice if it didn't suck as badly as vTuner does.

Yamaha should really revisit their "partnership" with this service, and replace them with another one that cares. I have no doubt TuneIn Radio on the Onkyo is much better than this.

I'm also struggling with the appalling vTuner interface. How hard can it be to design better web pages? As a former web designer I know it's not that hard.

I'm also currently experiencing a problem with playing back some favourites I have stored. There's about half a dozen and all apparently the same format and all play perfectly when accessed on the website with my browser. But on the Yamaha Z11, some of them simply won't play and report 'Access error', yet the others are fine. So where's the problem? Surely vTuner just supply a URL to the Yamaha amp and if that URL works fine in the browser, does that not indicate it's Yamaha code at fault here? Or is there some other interaction here between vTuner and the amp that is the cause?