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Fios --> router --> NUC --> USB --> DAC
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One channel of internet radio is out (right) on many but not all stations. It mostly is contained to various streams of New York Public Radio (WNYC, WQXR, …). It is consistently out for those.
I played these stations directly from QT/I tunes. No problem.
finally, as a test i switched my Roon core from ROCK to my trusty, ancient Macbook Pro. Works fine.
Conclusion: something is wrong specifically with my NUC/ROCK. Note that it is connected to the same ethernet switch, same USB cable, to the same DAC. The ONLY change is the computer. Other stations (WFMU, radio paradise, BBC) have both channels.
Problem. Note I will be traveling on business for a few days.
yes. didn’t help.
I have also tried disconnecting and re connecting the USB --? DAC. Appeared to work once but not another time. problem is, this is intermittent to begin with.
Can’t have to reboot the server every day in any event!
Well, its not NY Public Radio. Switching to a laptop from Roon and using the player to play the stream directly works just fine. So something is going on between the stream and Roon on the ingest side.
I have used two different DACs, but cant say more. The primary DAC in question is a denafrips Ares II. remember though that switching to a differen troon core sixed it. It almost has to be the roon (ROCK) core or its interplay with the NUC.
I tried all of your links on my ROCK and they appear to be playing from both channels, so this is strange indeed. Does the same behavior occur when using both USB ports?
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It doesn’t look like you have read through all my posts for the complete history. Let’s back up - most stations play two channel on my ROCK/NUC. The stations in question play fine on another roon core on a different (Mac, old) computer on the same ethernet hub. So you really want me to switch USB ports? If so, when i get home i will give it a try, but this seems like grasping at straws rather than asking what’s up with the code"? I just want me ROCK, which is a big investment over the free old macbok pro i was using to work.
I’m happy to help debug - sure. But why exactly would the USB port be at fault if BBC works fine, radio paradise works fine but 3 NPR stations do not? Moreover they continue to not work (play left channel only) consistently after reboots, deleting and re loading the stations, etc.
Just please confirm that you had all that in mind when you asked - its easy enough to do, but not from hundreds of miles away. And it seems to be a legitimate problem with very early code.
I am back and have done as you asked, and tried the other USB ports on the NUC. Problem is unaffected. I also changed Ethernet ports (as if that could possibly be the issue) - unaffected.
I still have three of my primary radio stations playing only the left channel. WNYC, WQXR and operavore (WQXR)
I have it working full stereo. Sorta. On a whim i decided to try the MP3 versions of those stations (WNYC-FM, WNYC-AM, WQXRFM), rather than the AAC versions.
They are playing. but this begs: “why?”. Clearly the AAC versions work natively on my old Macbook, and in Roon on that same MacBook, and according to Roon support, in their tests on ROCK (i presume they (you?) successfully tested it on ROCK since that’s where I was getting failures).
So i have a work around. but something is still wrong.
Just a thought, but have you gone through the step of adding Codecs to your ROCK/NUC installation? And does the ROCK Web UI administration page report that they have been added successfully (i.e. the “missing codecs” error message no longer displays)?
First off : I haven’t tried yet in my own Rock, so I’m not sure how it behaves.
Will do that, later on.
But I do want to share a thought already:
I notice that all your streams are AAC + encoded (notice the plus!).
AAC+ files are not ‘true’ stereo, in the sense that they contain two channels.
They are mono (single channel), but contain a tiny additional sideband. This sideband can help approximating and restoring the original stereo spread. This is called Parametric Stereo.
But if the player does not understand this sideband, then it is expected to play just the mono track.
Which seems to happen in your case.
I might be mistaken, but I seem to remember that FFMPEG needs an external library to support AAC+.
I think it makes sense to think, that perhaps (your version of) FFMPEG does not support the Parametric Stereo of AAC+ ?
As said : will try to check on my own Rock next week. But perhaps this info can already help out a bit… .
Very interesting. FFMPEG was added ( I did it). But that would explain the problem. I need to check whether any of the other stations, which have always worked, are also AAC. I did note above that I switched to the MP3 stream and it did fix the problem.
Surprised that the support staff missed this. They asked for the links and tested them (supposedly).
No time to test this through today, but it seems like the codec that I originally used has no trouble.
Playing both channels (not sure if it is really stereo…).
Have to leave the house now, but perhaps you can give it a spin. My files are labeled ffmpeg-3.3.1-64bit-static.tar.xz. If not possible to find with Google, I’ll be happy to upload for you.
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