Unifi Dream Machine Pro - NUC ROCK connected by ethernet
Connected Audio Devices
Wifi connected Macbook Pro running the latest 2.0 universal binary of Roon.
Zuma wireless ceiling speakers
Number of Tracks in Library
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Description of Issue
Many BBC radio stations stop playing after a few seconds in Roon. On any of my endpoints.
The stations play fine in my browser - using the same URL used by Roon.
All other streaming radio station that I’ve tried - work without issue. It’s just BBC Radio that’s doing this. Mostly BBC 3 and BBC 4 that I’ve tried.
However, it seems unlikely that it’s related to the end points as all other streaming radio stations I’ve tried work fine - as does Qobuz content and localy stored content.
Well, there was a similar issue reported some months back (BBC Radio stations cutting out for a user in the UK) that turned out to be an issue with the Raat server and an endpoint…
I suspect that Support are going to have to pull logs from your system to see if something turns up in them.
No it didn’t, the thread was closed because one user was working with their hifiberry thing.
BBC radio streams have been flakey since day 1, every few months people report issues (normally with sonos endpoints) Support ask a few questions, people get fed up and the thread goes quiet.
I’ve seen many users reporting these issues. I no longer use Roon to play any BBC radio stations as it’s so hit and miss whether it will be stable. I just use Sonos for BBC radio now as it’s rock solid.
For people in the UK, AFAIK. The rest of us apparently have no problems - which would seem to point to an issue associated with the Beeb’s geo-fenced streams in the UK.
I think it was the lack of feedback from support that resulted in people getting exasperated and quiet.
Support asked for logs and details of which station, stream and codec which people were supplying but after 5 months of “we’re looking into it” they (rightly) got fed up (and then the thread was closed as fixed)
SO I may have solved my own issue. Maybe - let’s see if it holds up for a while./
I started using Cloudflare for DNS for my entire network a few weeks ago. So Roon Core was using 1.1.1.1
Having read through a couple of long threads on the issues with BBC Radio here, I saw one post where someone changed their DNS provider to 8.8.8.8 google and it solved the problem.
