Best internet radio anyone?

Indeed TuneIn is a disaster due to geolocation checks, vTuner has had a few mini episodes recently and all aggregators seem to be losing content apace.

It’s no big deal there are many great internet radio apps for both android and iOS out there using public databases which seem to be kept up to date and can cast to any standards compliant streamer such as naim boxes. During all the recent problems with Bauer streams being removed and vTuner database we’ve never lost access to say Planet Rock at any point via these apps.

Yep , even the news sounds better in French .

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Hi all,

The gears of progress slowly turn at VTuner. More stations have been brought back to life.
Planet Rock and Scala Radio (UK) are also back in the system.

We’ve got a few issues in Australia at the moment at VTuner, but they should be sorted soon.

Best regards

Steve

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Came across this jazz station because some one was having difficulty on another thread.
Somehow Jazz (from Irvine, USA)


Good SQ and good mix esp. jazz/fusion and jazz/funk.
Another class station.

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I’ve been trying to find some good Bluegrass stations and came across two

  1. WPAQ Voice of the Blue Ridge - 62kb/s - from Mount Airy, North Carolina. Good authentic old school bluegrass. Occasional news and weather forecast for about 5mins in authentic accent (no adverts).
  2. GotRadio Bluegrass - 128kb/s - from Sacramento, California. Good quality broadcast.

Are there any more good bluegrass stations?

Interesting!

vTuner has 27 - but some may not be working at the moment due to the ongoing vTuner issue.

There are some stations listed on https://www.internet-radio dot com/stations/bluegrass/

Some I found include (and some in mp3/320):-

Gaslight Square Bluegrass (mp3/320)
https://stream-13.zeno.fm/74k513pf6f0uv?zs=H_mc4KQjRjmNBe38fzixyQ

Front Porch 181.fm (mp3/128)
http://relay.181.fm:8016/;

Bluegrass Planet Radio (mp3/320)
https://ais-edge51-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98541

WAMU Bluegrass Country
https://ice24.securenetsystems.net/WAMU

1550 AM Bluegrass Radio and Music WIGN (mp3/128)
http://192.99.8.170:6723/listen.pls?sid=1

WRNV The Ridge Bluegrass Radio
http://stream.wnrvbluegrassradio.com/live-mp3

KXLO Country Radio
https://ic2.sslstream.com/kxlo-am

Lukemilanese Radio
http://us4.internet-radio.com:8126/live

KWPX Cowpoke Classic Country Radio (updated URL)
http://pavo.prostreaming.net:8034/stream

Look forward to your review of them.

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Thanks. I could not find the last four on your list (I searched naim.vtuner.com).

The first two on your list has English adverts that puts me off (it would be ok if they spoke Americana twang).

Bluegrass Planet was not broadcasting.

1550 AM one has too much Gospel music which not my genre really. I have saved WAMU Country Bluegrass to my favourites. So I now have 3 channels to listen to. Thanks

Probably the vTuner issue for BlueGrass Planet.
The link above works in a browser and is also OK in Airable @Stevesky

KXLO is in vTuner and working.
181.fm Front Porch is in vTuner and working.
The Ridge is there too but not working at present.
You can add the last two as custom URL - Lukemilanese Radio and Cowpoke Classic Country Radio.
I enjoyed Gaslight Square Bluegrass (mp3/320).
All nine stations were broadcasting OK today.

Hi @Paul_C

I’ve contacted Vtuner to ask them to fix the couple of stations that have bad URL’s.

Best

Steve

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Alpha Boys’ School Radio. :jamaica:

All day reggae direct from Kingston … … … what’s not to like ?

Easily found via the Radio Garden app, which is both free, and non-profit making.

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URL https://alphaboys-live.streamguys1.com/alphaboys.aac

Hello,

A very popular local FM station ´The beat 92.5´ (Montreal) stopped working few months ago. I contacted few times the station, vtuner and Naim without any reply. I wonder if @Stevesky can help reach out to vtuner ?

The station works via tunein but not via Naim.vtuner.com site or on my Muso Gen1 or Muso-Qb 2. Thank you.

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Hi @aboulfad

We’ll get it fixed. I’ve tracked down what the issue is (they’ve moved to Triton Digital CDN) and reported it to VTuner.

I’ll report back once it’s fixed.

Regards

Steve

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WoW - thank you kindly for the prompt follow-up and it would be awesome to get it back on my Naim Muso(s).

Jazz24 is excellent. Listen to it all the time.

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Hi @aboulfad

That station is now fixed.

Regards

Steve Harris
Software Director
Naim Audio Ltd.

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It’s so nice after many months to hear my favorite local FM station and on my favorite awesome speaker system! Thank you very much @Stevesky :100:

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