How to see what's playing (specific track) on live radio station?

[Dan_Derby]

I listen to Radio Paradise a lot, in part to discover new artists. I’m a new ROON user, stream to various home Bluesound devices with Qobuz. On the BlueOS app and, obviously, the Radio Paradise app, I can simply & quickly see what is playing when something interests me. I don’t see a way to do that on ROON.

If there is, could someone point me to it? Thanks!

P.S. The BluOS has a feature that, when you click the song, it gives you the option to go to the artist on Qobuz. Does ROON have the equivalent? Sorry if this is a dumb question but it’s a primary reason I have a streaming service like Qobuz, i.e. discovery.

[Marin_Weigel (Bram Stoker's Cappuccino)]

[BrianW (Brian)]

Hello @Dan_Derby , welcome to the community but I’m afraid you might have hit a couple of bugs straightaway…

What remote are you using? There is currently an issue with Roon not displaying metadata on mobile remotes.

BUG in 1.8 : Radio metadata not displayed on mobile in certain cases [Ticket In]

Radio metadata is sometimes not displayed on mobile (iOS/iPhone8) in the Now Playing screen. This occurs when Roon is not able to “match” the artist and track name with an album from its database. It happens quite often and is a regression from 1.7. Thanks for fixing it! NB: all is good on tablets and desktop.

Otherwise, you should see the metadata but there is a separate issue where links are not clickable.

Live Radio metadata links no longer working

Playing live radio this evening, I realise that I haven’t been able to click on a single artist or album link for any radio station that I have been listening to. I have a Qobuz subscription and normally 80%+ of all tracks played on Radio Paradise are clickable but this evening, nothing. I’m not sure when this problem started but I’ve got albums that I added to my collection 3 days ago based on links to Radio Paradise tracks that were playing. I tried restarting the core (and client) but no dif…

Roon is aware of both problems.

[BrianW (Brian)]

Hello @Marin_Weigel , I’m not seeing this on my tablet or phone… Is this just for RP world?

[Dan_Derby]

Wow, thanks for the quick response! I noticed the issue 1st on my PC but just checked and found the same thing on my android tab. And you’re right, the streams showing the metadata indication (-flacm) has it. I can make that my default and at least be able dig it out manually. The BluOS implementation has really spoiled me I guess. Thanks so much. Dan

[Marin_Weigel (Bram Stoker's Cappuccino)]

@BrianW

Is this just for RP world?

All *.flacm AAC MP3 streams show unclickable metadata for me on my PC, haven’t checked my Android yet…

[BrianW (Brian)]

Hello @Marin_Weigel , are you still having problems? If so, we’ll start a new thread.

[Marin_Weigel (Bram Stoker's Cappuccino)]

Thanks @BrianW for checking back!

Had forgotten about it all together

All working as expected now on Android, Win10 Laptop Remote and Win10 Core PC.
Case closed for me…