Naim Internet Radio - Feedback & Requests - Part 16

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A repeat of the opening post from Part 1:

At Naim, we understand that while many people use our products to get the best listening experience from their own music collection; sometimes you simply want to put the radio on and let someone else choose. We’ve offered a comprehensive internet radio solution for some time, and we are now delighted to announce the launch of our own in-house internet radio solution.

In a collaboration between XPeri and our team here at Naim, we have brought the internet radio server in-house to be maintained internally, as opposed to relying on a third party as with the previous server. This will improve reliability and has opened up a host of improvements to the service, detailed below:

- A selection of over 45,000 stations worldwide
- Advanced metadata feeds for artist, track and album info on many stations
- Focus on high-quality audio streams
- Improved station categorisation
- High-resolution station artwork
- Automated station scanning
- Station podcasts (where available)

The Focal & Naim app will identify any favourites and presets that should be resaved to use the new server.

These updates are not only improving the internet radio server but improving our streaming capabilities too. TIDAL’s new 24-bit, 192 kHz streaming tier, TIDAL Max, is now available through both the Focal & Naim app and TIDAL Connect.

In a significant update for our Chinese customers, Q-Play is now supported in Naim products. QQ Music is one of the largest music streaming services in China, and users are now able to select their Naim streamer from within the QQ Music app for a seamless listening experience.

Regards,
Naim Audio – Software team

With the launch of Naim’s new Internet Radio service (see above), I’ve created this dedicated thread where information can be posted relating to the service and members can post feedback and requests for the team at HQ.

Examples of how this thread can be used;

  • Announcements on key new stations / station rebrands etc. For example recently a big change in UK for Bauer Media and Global. Scala radio rebrands to Magic Classical and about 16 other new or existing stations changing.
  • request stations that we don’t have.
  • issues with a station. Eg, wrong meta / won’t play and so on.
  • notifications of any downtime on either our system in a given region, or a dependent system like the xperi live radio meta.
  • Search issues. We have the station but its hard to find as needs more tags.
  • feature requests / feedback / general radio gossip

Please ensure posts here are ONLY feedback re. the new Naim radio service or station requests. Thanks.

The latest February Update can be read here:

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Naim Internet Radio - Feedback & Requests - Part 15
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Thank you for the followup @Stevesky. The Radio Classique 99.5 FM station was indeed sold a few years ago but they kept both, the Quebec and Montreal stream alive on their website. Shutting down the Montreal stream was an unannounced disappointment but at least the Quebec one still lives.

Music on!

Cheer and have a good day.

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Hi @Stevesky

I stumbled upon “ Jazz Sakura (asia dream radio) “ which reports in the Naim App to be MP3 and 128kb/s

But somehow it seems to sound significantly better than nearly all MP3 streams that I have listened to in the Naim Internet Radio app. Is there a way that you could verify the bitstream specs coming from it ?

Thankyou.

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Hi @Dugby

it really is MP3 128kbit. From our test client:

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Best

Steve

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Starting and stopping

I’ve just tried to play BBC Radio five sports extra but it begins and immediately stops. Other stations are fine.

I’ve tried accessing it from Naim favourites and the Europe search. However, the problem exists on my NDS but not on UQs. I hope that this is not the beginning of the end for my NDS.

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Hi @Camphuw

This maybe a short term fault network wise and network latency has gone bad.

I’d suggest to help breakdown the problem:

  1. Power cycle the product + your wifi router.
  2. If still an issue try alternative BBC radio station like bbc radio 2
  3. If still problematic try playing the 320K aac Naim Radio. See if that has playback issues.

Best

Steve

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Thanks Steve … all clear now but took two power down cycles. Should have tried it myself before taking up you time. Thanks again.

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Hello @Stevesky

Sorry for so long delay.
I took the time to check Kurt’s radio based in North Korea :grin:

I suppose this is the radio you changed the IP from old one to new one as Kurt said a couple of weeks ago.

I confirm it works fine and the flow is constant.
Perfect to hear to …

Many thanks for what you did !

I really appreciate the efforts you do for this so particular need …

Now it works fine, is it possible you add the “other” Naim flac radios in same area ?

And the final touch will be you add all Radio Paradise and all Hi On Line also …

I hope these radios won’t face any issue to be pushed in another way than their standard way …

Just let me know :thinking: :upside_down_face:

Thanks again !

Bertrand Dubois

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Hi @Bertrand

The other 2 Naim Radio channels that are proxied from the Kert proxy have been added,

On other stations on this proxy, as they are commercial stations and this proxy causes legal issues on music licensing (everyone appears to be in Germany), unfortunately we can’t add the others.

Best

Steve

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