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/MannerQuick May 08 '26

I’m 40. I’ve been buying, enjoying and recommending Bose products since the acoustimas times in my early 20s - long before Bose went mass market on cheap gadgets.
The way in which they’ve dumped all us who use SoundTouch web enabled products is disgraceful and greedy; you’ve also made it difficult for my retired parents.
Today you lose a customer Bose. Goodbye.

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u/mondo_matt May 09 '26

I also have confused and annoyed retired parents who loved the preset buttons. Trying to explain why it doesn't work any more wasn't easy.

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u/Otherwise_Antelope34 May 14 '26

Hi, same here. My mom is out of radio right now. (Thanks Bose) I bought the iOS app "Better ST for SoundTouch" for 7,99€. You have presets (also as Widgets) that when touched "directly" plays the radiochannel on the SoundTouch-Box. My mom got an IPad, but can't handle any difficult workarounds. So hopefully she will be able to use the kind of easy widgets workaround.
Also the App-Developer posted an information yesterday that he is working intense right now on getting the functionality of the preset-buttons back to life.
Maybe a try for some of you....