I'm having repeated problems with Carplay. I listen to RP frequently in my car. The problem is the app works maybe 3-5 times, then crashes. I get the RP main screen but when I touch one of the Mixes, I get an empty screen with a non-functioning Play button. If I touch the Play button it just blinks. No music on any stream. The only way to fix it is to shut my phone off and restart it, or delete the RP app and reload it. I have the most updated version of the app.
Is anybody having issues with RP on Sonos often stopping and starting?
I'm finding this on both the main and mellow mix, even on the 128k channels, when I'm trying to feed the signal to more than about four speakers (the house network has seven speakers). Could this simply be a 'fact of life' with the amount of bandwidth available to any single feed, ie, I'm trying to split that feed too many ways?
While playing My Favorites, the stream pauses and won't play. Even if I refresh the browser it remains stuck. Odd thing is, it appears to only happen with new Jack White songs off his No Name album. Odd. This is the fifth time in the last two months.
Thanks,
Definitely a few songs missing from that album.
We'll get that sorted out.
While playing My Favorites, the stream pauses and won't play. Even if I refresh the browser it remains stuck. Odd thing is, it appears to only happen with new Jack White songs off his No Name album. Odd. This is the fifth time in the last two months.
My Favourites Mix related. Anyone want to replay something having just heard it? It happens to me fairly regularly and so I go to Spotify to hear it again. Be good if I could stay on RP insteaad - asked already, difficult to do, easy to do even?
My understanding is that it's not allowed under the "radio" license. If you were able to specify a song to play, that sort of on-demand streaming requires a theoretically more expensive license. But Spotify et al pay next to nothing so maybe it's worth looking into...
My Favourites Mix related. Anyone want to replay something having just heard it? It happens to me fairly regularly and so I go to Spotify to hear it again. Be good if I could stay on RP insteaad - asked already, difficult to do, easy to do even?
Summary: Losing audio at song boundaries? VLC on NVIDIA Shield(Android)
A few weeks ago I entered URLs for various RP channels into a list for the VLC app on my NVIDIA Shield (an Android based streaming device sorta like Roku) and I was in... Paradise!
After being too busy for some weeks I got around to listening again today, and I'm sorry to report that although I can connect to any of the Mix channels it now appears that I lose audio at the end of a song? the VLC app seems to think it's still connected and updates the track timer and artist info, but no audio. If I switch to another RP channel and then immediately back to the channel I was listening to I recover the audio until the end of the current song, then lose it again. Have so far seen this on the Rock and Mellow Mix channels, but did not (yet?) notice it on Radio2050. I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC behavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
I know, this is a weird one... >-/ (and I'm only filing it under Bug Reports because I don't know a more appropriate category - I don't assume the problem is at RP's end) I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC misbehavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
Keep up the good work!
âMichael O'Donnell
The flac + metadata links will not work in VLC. You'll get a terrible glitch at each song transition.
Summary: Several of the FLAC+metadata links/streams are dead
For example Rock Mix - http://stream.radioparadise.co... I normally use moOde and noticed it several days ago. I've also confirmed it on different browsers, but haven't tried it from a different location.
Summary: Losing audio at song boundaries? VLC on NVIDIA Shield(Android)
A few weeks ago I entered URLs for various RP channels into a list for the VLC app on my NVIDIA Shield (an Android based streaming device sorta like Roku) and I was in... Paradise!
After being too busy for some weeks I got around to listening again today, and I'm sorry to report that although I can connect to any of the Mix channels it now appears that I lose audio at the end of a song? the VLC app seems to think it's still connected and updates the track timer and artist info, but no audio. If I switch to another RP channel and then immediately back to the channel I was listening to I recover the audio until the end of the current song, then lose it again. Have so far seen this on the Rock and Mellow Mix channels, but did not (yet?) notice it on Radio2050. I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC behavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
I know, this is a weird one... >-/ (and I'm only filing it under Bug Reports because I don't know a more appropriate category - I don't assume the problem is at RP's end) I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC misbehavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
Keep up the good work!
âMichael O'Donnell
Have seen some issues with vlc come and go depending on version.
You can try different bitrates. And streams with and without metadata. Also urls starting with http vs https
Summary: Losing audio at song boundaries? VLC on NVIDIA Shield(Android)
A few weeks ago I entered URLs for various RP channels into a list for the VLC app on my NVIDIA Shield (an Android based streaming device sorta like Roku) and I was in... Paradise!
After being too busy for some weeks I got around to listening again today, and I'm sorry to report that although I can connect to any of the Mix channels it now appears that I lose audio at the end of a song? the VLC app seems to think it's still connected and updates the track timer and artist info, but no audio. If I switch to another RP channel and then immediately back to the channel I was listening to I recover the audio until the end of the current song, then lose it again. Have so far seen this on the Rock and Mellow Mix channels, but did not (yet?) notice it on Radio2050. I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC behavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
I know, this is a weird one... >-/ (and I'm only filing it under Bug Reports because I don't know a more appropriate category - I don't assume the problem is at RP's end) I'll see if I can find mention of such VLC misbehavior online as this could be a bug of theirs.
We haven't had localized links like that for ages. If you're still using one, you probably shouldn't. Our system will connect you with the closest and/or best option.
IP Multicast is really a private-network thing. It's never proved to be very practical on the public Internet. Nor is peer-to-peer streaming, really. It can work, but not terribly reliably — and bandwidth costs these days are only a small fraction of what they once were.
