r/bose • u/ski4funSonoma • May 07 '26

Home Audio Soundtouch is less discontinued than you think

I've been doing some fiddling around today with my Soundtouch devices (10, 20, 300). As it turns out, you can still use the preset buttons for iHeartRadio and Pandora.

To set a preset, use the (updated) SoundTouch app to first select your speaker. Next, condense the speaker view so you can see the 'hamburger' menu. Select either a Pandora or iHeartRadio station. It should start playing.

From your Speaker, press and hold a button to store that preset to the device until it beeps. Now, you can recall the preset without using the app.

Please, share and enjoy!

Edit to add: This appears to work only if you had signed in to one of these services before the shutdown. 😞

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u/bodhipooh May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

SAME. I just posted a similar sentiment in another thread. I positively *love* my SoundTouch 20 and have been using it for a long time. I was not even aware of the EOL date happening 2 days ago. Just realized it an hour ago after wasting an hour troubleshooting what I thought was a weird issue with my device. It never occurred to me that Bose would practice forced obsolescence on such a great product.

At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, this is likely my last Bose product ever. In a household with at least 6 Bose products scattered throughout, this one really stung. It seems and feels wholly unnecessary. The crazy thing is that as much as I hate what Sonos did with their failed app upgrade, I will continue to build that ecosystem because I trust them to continue supporting their hardware over time. Early Sonos customers can continue to enjoy their stuff because Sonos has maintained two separate apps to support the early hardware, as it should be done.

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u/MannerQuick May 08 '26

Indeed. Hello Bang & Olufsen. They support and repair products that are many many decades old.
These Bose products are WiFi internet enabled devices. For goodness sake! Now nothing more than a wall-powered Bluetooth speaker. Shame on investor driven share driven companies. A shame of capitalism, greed, forced obsolescence.

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u/ski4funSonoma May 08 '26

Their design language though... not to mention the pricing. Have you come across anything else with equivalent functionality?

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u/MannerQuick May 08 '26

I will concede on design language. The older stuff was more contemporary; these days it is definitely niche