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 May Update can be read here:
The latest Android app still does not show Internet Radio stream quality when browsing the station list. Interested to hear if there is any chance of that being added to the Android app.
