ICI Radio-Canada Première - Montréal (95.1 FM) stuck loading, never plays

The “ICI Radio-Canada Première - Montréal” station (CBF-FM 95.1) no longer plays. There’s no error message — it just spins/loads indefinitely and the “now playing” (yellow dot) indicator never appears. I’ve removed the station from my library, restarted Roon, and even did a full reinstall of the software: the problem persists.

Interesting data point: the equivalent “ICI Radio-Canada Première - Québec” station works perfectly fine, so this doesn’t look like a geo-restriction or a Radio-Canada policy issue — more likely the stream URL saved for the Montréal entry in your directory is stale or dead.

Could you please check/update the stream URL for the Montréal station?

Hmm, the streams used to work - when did they stop?

They are HLS streams consisting of .ts chunks which Roon sometimes has trouble with; I wonder if something has changed in Roon? - I’ll try and find out.

The reason Québec works is that there is a legacy non-HLS stream there. I couldn’t find one for Montréal.

Roon will log errors endlessly about this - you need to restart your roonserver to stop the logging.

I’ve opened a support ticket

The link works on a browser, but not in Roon. Even when I try using it to add a new station. It was working fine before the last software update.

Roon have a fix: