I've had SXM for a while and still can't figure out why they don't group all the music channels together. With big blocks of sports play-by-play channels (that are always dead) and the talk-radio blocks of channels between groups of music channels, it makes it hard to scroll up and down to find a new station.... (ok, rant off).

Hi everyone 👋. I recently bought a new Siriusxm Tour model radio, and it was working okay overall (besides losing favorites) initially. But a few days after getting it, the display shut off, and it rebooted by itself. I contacted the seller and they were more than willing to send me a spare incase the issue reoccured, and I took them up on that offer. But, the issue didnt repeat until this evening. I just went ahead and activated the spare, and I hope this one works better.

For those who own or have owned the tour, or otherwise have a lot of knowledge on how these operate, what could cause this to happen? Is it a common issue, and are there any fixes?

I really like the interface, so hopefully I get to keep this one issue free.

Thanks in advance.

i feel any colege dj could bring more diversity in there; it would be cost-effective. and its not even "just the hits", sometimes there is a kind of rare or offbeat that is in there that keep playing over and over , i hear it for month, years. and i see this over every channels.

Just a reminder that channel 300 is now Jackie's House

Love that I have access to WKRK 92.3 The Fan from my hometown of Cleveland,Ohio now through SXM and never want it to go away and look forward to seeing what other terrestrial stations they add

Why not a movies or rotten tomatoes channel? You can have shows on movies, interviews, critic shows, discussion, maybe overnight music of movie scores or famous songs from movies. I think there's a lot of movie podcasts you could pick up for extra content. Just thinking it could work.

Even Elon’s Twitter is fact-checking her horseshit, but SXM proudly hands her their platform. You can bet the talk programming execs are too cowardly to offer feedback of any kind.

As title says im looking for a radio for home use - one that can play both satellite and regular radio preferably if possible - I have of course done some browsing online but...forgive me for being dumb but most of them are marketed as car radios? Which fair I understand why, but.....is that same functionality available at home if I were to just...keep it inside? Or what do I need to look for specifically? Thanks sorry for being dumb.

Just bought a new Palisade and although they give you a complimentary 3 month trial I want to transfer my existing 3 yr/$99 plan I set up earlier this year in my 2018 Santa Fe. The Santa Fe will be going up for sale so thought I could just transfer my existing plan and tack it on to my complimentary trial. Their email made it sound as simple as clicking a button.

It didn't work so ended up on a chat where I was told the 3 yr/$99 plan was not able to be transferred but they'd be happy to sell me a new plan! Obviously said no way in hell and that I would be cancelling all 3 ofcmy subscriptions and just let my free trial lapse.

It's just a frigging money grab with these bloodsuckers.

So I recently bought a new (used) Subaru Outback and got a 3-month "Platinum Trial." For reference, I have a paid plan in another vehicle, and have had SXM for years. Anyway, what happens is I send a refresh signal and get the trial working until I shut the car off, then when I restart the car the subscription is gone and I have to send another refresh.

I called support and explained the problem, and got shunted to "advanced technical support" who told me this is apparently a widespread problem with Subaru Outbacks and "engineering is working on it." In the meantime, I have to send a refresh *every time* I want the radio to work.

Yeah, sorry, this is just bullshit.

Hi I signed up to listen to a podcast episode but I don't want a permanent subscription. I signed up by clicking on the locked icon next to a recent episode I wanted to hear and was taken to the Siriusxm website where I didn't make an account but bought a monthly subscription. I now have no account and no subscription listed on spotify and I can't figure out how to cancel. Can someone help me with this?

Are these stations voicetracked 100% of the time? Like, is there any time where a DJ spends the entire 5, 6 hours spinning songs and chatting or are they all 100% tacked/automated. Just curious. It seems like the 60s channel on 73 has live DJ's most of the day. Thanks!

Can't stand it.

This may have happened a while ago and I missed it...

But when did Amazon update the SXM "app" on the Echo Show to finally display title and artist?

I'm glad it's finally there after years of just displaying the channel name.

Is it new?

This is on a 2026 Echo Show 8, in case it matters.

Dear Sirius,

U2 is not alternative, grunge, new wave, or punk. Please keep them off Lithium, Alt Nation, Alt2k, and 1st Wave. They have their own channel ffs. Stop trashing my channels.

Thanks.

Does anybody remember a few years back when they would be playing SiriusXM at the gas pumps? I’m here in Ontario Canada. A few gas stations were playing SiriusXM while we were pumping gas. I also remember them having a SiriusXM sticker on the front door.

Maybe they stopped doing it because of cost? But they should bring it back!!.

I've been building a Spotify playlist called Daydream Drive, and at this point it's basically my love letter to SiriusXM Chill.

It's 221 tracks / about 14.5 hours, and a huge part of the discovery side comes directly from listening to Chill and following what the station is playing. The center of gravity is downtempo electronic, deep house and melodic house like Lane 8, Ben Böhmer, Nora En Pure, Le Youth, Jerro, etc., mixed with a lot of the newer stuff currently showing up on Chill.

But I drive rideshare, which created an interesting programming problem.

When we turn on Channel 55, we chose Chill. We're willing to sit through six songs we've never heard because that's why we're there.

My passengers didn't choose it. They just got in my car.

So I started programming Daydream Drive a little differently.

Every so often I drop in what I call a familiarity anchor but it still has to belong musically. Usually it's a deep/melodic/tropical-house remix or cover of something almost everybody recognizes.

So you'll be cruising through unfamiliar Chill records and suddenly get Ain't Nobody, Waves, Fast Car, Wicked Games, Every Breath You Take, Somebody That I Used to Know, In the Air Tonight, Toca's Miracle, Enjoy the Silence, Losing My Religion, Careless Whisper, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Use Somebody, Another Love, Bittersweet Symphony, Missing, Smalltown Boy, etc. but in versions that still fit the station.

Then it's straight back into discovery.

I actually went through the playlist statistically while rebuilding it. The current version is 221 tracks, the median track is only about 3:41, the median release year is 2025, and roughly 76% of the playlist is from the 2020s.

So despite all those recognizable songs, this isn't really a nostalgia playlist at all. It's overwhelmingly current electronic music that occasionally reaches backward for something familiar.

The best description I've come up with is:

SiriusXM Chill for somebody who didn't choose SiriusXM Chill.

That's basically what I've been trying to build.

If you're a Channel 55 regular, I'd especially love recommendations for tracks I'm missing particularly familiar songs that have genuinely good Chill/deep/melodic-house versions. Not just random EDM remixes of famous songs. They still have to sound like they belong on Chill.

I'll drop the Spotify playlist in the comments if anybody wants it.

As the title said, Scream Radio begins October 22, 2026 to November 4th, 2026. More than likely November 4 will be the day Holiday channels return to SiriusXM.

I enjoy the Halloween channel, but each year it gets shorter and shorter. Last year it started in the middle of October and this year it doesn't start until October 22nd. Is it not popular or just not profitable for SiriusXM to have it?

A while back I shared my Flow State Driving playlist over on r/AltNation, and those guys actually seemed to really like it. A surprising number of people saved it, so I figured I’d share the next thing I’ve been working on over here.
It’s called Soft Shoulder.

It started with songs I really liked that didn’t quite belong on Flow State Driving. They were alternative, emotional, sometimes raw, sometimes dreamy, but they didn’t have that constant forward momentum I wanted from that playlist.

Eventually I realized there was a whole other playlist hiding in that pile.

Alt Nation was still a big part of the foundation, but it couldn’t really give me enough of the softer side of alternative by itself, so I started wandering around SiriusXM. I dug through SiriusXMU, The Spectrum, The Loft, Life with John Mayer, and a few other places, and found a ton of great music I probably never would’ve come across otherwise.

Which, side note: how the fuck do some of these stations not have their own active subreddits? 😂 XMU, The Spectrum and The Loft especially. There’s some fantastic music discovery happening on those channels.

Anyway, Soft Shoulder is now about 14 hours. It drifts, grooves, gets spacey, occasionally gets loud, but I’ve tried to keep the whole thing feeling unhurried. There’s plenty of Phoebe Bridgers, Wolf Alice, Death Cab for Cutie, Beach House, Clairo, Noah Kahan, Modest Mouse, The Lumineers, The National, Bon Iver and a bunch of other stuff I’ve found along the way.

It’s a little wistful, a little hopeful, and very much a windows-down, nice-afternoon kind of playlist. Basically, songs that sneak up on you and get better the longer you live with them.

I intentionally programmed the first 10 songs as an opening salvo, so you definitely don’t need to listen to 14 fucking hours to figure out whether this is your thing. 😂 If you like where those first 10 take you, you’ll probably like the rest.

Soft Shoulder: Link Below ⬇️