Annoying Sirius XM Radio Ads

[bdhsfz6]

Recently, I started getting annoying Sirius XM radio promotional ads coming through the audio systems on both my new GM vehicles. It plays every time I start the vehicle. It's loud and annoying with no way to turn it off or even turn the volume down! It appears to be just another aggressive marketing tactic by Sirius.

I complained to the dealer and was told "There're working on it".

There is lots of buzz on the net about it but no viable solution. Anyone here know of a hack to eliminate the problem?

 

[ultrarunner]

Friend who is nerve def is hounded by ads… he can’t here but the ads keep coming.

 

[Jstpssng]

Sirius is annoying. I subscribed for a couple of years but got tired of them bragging about the "no commercial format", while having a commercial after every other song.
They called them "promos" because they were plugging other Sirius stations, yet a commercial by any other name is still a commercial.

 

[notaz3]

Sirius is annoying. I subscribed for a couple of years but got tired of them bragging about the "no commercial format", while having a commercial after every other song.
They called them "promos" because they were plugging other Sirius stations, yet a commercial by any other name is still a commercial.

If it wasn't for having the lifetime subscription I would have dropped them years ago for this very reason.
When Sirius started they had 14 channels with music and almost no talk.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Sirius is great, I think. Without it (a portable unit permanently mounted in the cab) I'd go completely nuts when mowing for hours.

I suppose it wouldn't be quite as nice to have if there were radio stations available, but still.

 

[Jstpssng]

Sirius is great, I think. Without it (a portable unit permanently mounted in the cab) I'd go completely nuts when mowing for hours.

I suppose it wouldn't be quite as nice to have if there were radio stations available, but still.

As long as I have cell service I can listen to the radio on my phone, running it through the Bluetooth in my pickup. My other beef about Sirius was their lack of variety... You would hear the same songs over and over and over again... often at the exact same time every day.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

My other beef about Sirius was their lack of variety... You would hear the same songs over and over and over again... often at the exact same time every day.

I've noticed that on drives that are 500 miles or more, but on the other hand, there are probably at least 200 channels I never even tuned to. Some of them might be quite good.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I got really pizzed one night, when all of a sudden someone from Onstar came on my speaker trying to get me to sign up for their service. I Friggin lost it on them. I will never have onstar, or XM again ever.

 

[Cougsfan]

I recently got offered a free month long subscription to Sirius, so I tried it. I was quickly reminded why I cancelled my subscription to Sirius several years ago. There are no stations that fit my listening desires without throwing stuff I don't care to listen to. That's why I will stick with Spotify and my playlists of music of my own choice. Spotify works when I lose phone service too.

 

[deserteagle71]

My other beef about Sirius was their lack of variety... You would hear the same songs over and over and over again... often at the exact same time every day.

^This!

I finally gave up on SiriusXM and took the time to load all my favorite tunes onto a flash drive - several thousand of them. Plugged the flash drive into the stereo in the Kubota, set the stereo to "Random", and let the system randomly choose songs...songs that I like and none that I don't like. And no DJ chatter and no ads!