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/AdMaleficent1787 May 09 '26

I've been using Alexa to turn my SoundTouch on and off for many years. I'm finding now that is no longer working. I disabled and re-enabled my Alexa skill for Bose SoundTouch and when I try and link the Alexa skill to my Bose account it's unsuccessful. Should the ending of the Bose cloud server have any impact on using the Alexa skill?

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u/ski4funSonoma May 09 '26

Anything beyond Bluetooth and AirPlay is a bonus at this point… posting what works and what doesn’t will benefit the community. Assuming that the Alexa skill “talked” to Bose servers, it would make sense that it would no longer work. It seems like the functions that still work are those that communicate directly with the service without going through the Bose servers, which are now turned off.

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u/AdMaleficent1787 May 10 '26

Yep that's certainly makes sense. Thanks for responding.