BBC Radio is still available in Apple Music through TuneIn.
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Would be good to have the possibility to switch to another aggregator or configure presets with the URLs of the radio stations ourselfs as a backup. On the other hand, itās always possible to hear radio through the radioās smartphone app (e.g. BBC Sounds) and stream it through AirPlay or Chromecast.
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I am sorry that makes no sense at allā¦ did you read my repliesā¦ this has nothing to do with geographic size. The principles here would work in a lab room or a planet. What could be relevant would be routing at IXPsā¦ very unlikely, or more likely DNS caches with ISPsā¦ and their DNS design/topology.
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Maybe. Letās see how Naim will handle the situation.
As far as I know, primare also uses airable
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Primare use Airable today. So they also gave up on vtuner.
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I recommend āthetruesizeā web page where you can overlay contries for correct scale. This is Australia on top of the US 
And UK on top of Australia.
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Hi.
Iān new to Naim (Must QB 2nd Gen) and iRadio and I wish I had never bothered with either. I had better radio experience with a Ā£20 Dab. I 'm never sure when I turn on the speaker whether itās going to play or not and it was a nightmare over Xmas. My question is , is it always like this?
This might give you the answer;
There is no doubt that a Ā£20 dab would have always sounded bad, whereas a Qb2 almost always sounds great.
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It might be best to start a thread and give some more information about your situation if itās more than radio that is your issue. Then people can help you as No, itās not always like this and apart from the radio issues over Christmas in the main they work seamlessly.
.sjb
I think a good setup for naim will be to have the option to choose between 3 iradio aggregators: if one will fail, the others will be still available. Itās a simple idea to not have a single point of failure.
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I assume vTuner isnāt free for manufacturers to use and Naim has paid some kind of relatively small licensing fee to use it in their products.
To support multiple aggregators would presumably require more licensing fees from Naim assuming they can all be incorporated in the firmware. I could almost envisage a situation where youād need to subscribe to an aggregator service as with Qobuz/Tidal subscriptions but pricing would have to be very cheap for the end user. The audio equipment provides a vehicle for the services to make some money provided they offer a decent service the customer is willing to pay for. As itās āradioā however rather than on demand streaming of what you actually want to hear, I doubt anything involving subscriptions would go down well with the customer base.
Vtuner themselves claimed around 40cent per product few years back.
āPeter Johnson, vTunerās CEO, posted quite a rant [on the Bose website revealing that the company charged ā.40 centsā per product to vTuner, that Tunein has āa pathetic databaseā, and ends by claiming āWhat these consumer electronic companies want is free no matter how bad the quality of the service isā, adding that it ānow looks like I will need to close vTuner soon.āā
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Vtuner arenāt doing too bad.
Total Employees <25 & Revenue $5.2M
To be fair if they havenāt priced their product correctly itās their issue.
Anyone know what exactly āvTuner Premium 5*ā is ?
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vTuner simply has no future at all, and the manufacturers of streamers and receivers etc. will have to realize that at some point.
I foresee a gold plated future for Naim Radio.
and when one goes down you have to explain how to solve it. May almost take as much time and resources than explaning how to stream to your streamers using third party apps. Hopefully someone hopefully more than one person at vtuner has some work to do over the next long time to reestablish the credibility of the service.
It will get to work. Naim supports their products quite a long time.