Congratulations to Roon team for the live radio, really a strong feature. In the next version, perhaps sorting/selecting stream by stream quality (lossless/lossy, MP3 etc…) could be great.
I would also find this feature great !!
Yes agree!
Thank you Roon team for adding this feature!
It would also be great to be able to filter by stream quality!
I can’t ever find a reason to play tinny and lifeless sub cd quality radio streams. Bizarre state of affairs it’s still the dominant approach out there.
Filtering by bit rate would be good
I appreciate the new feature and would love this functionality too.
They are nearly all sub CD quality I’m afraid. The BBC AAC stations sound pretty good though.
I can see this as a good option for people who do though. I wonder how many that is?
I have so much music in my library and Tidal that I don’t go looking for internet stations and I know what I want anyway. It’s mostly BBC Talk/Music Radio and I may dive about a bit if I know an artist is being interviewed on air somewhere.
Roon automatically selects the highest quality per station which is nice.
I may be the only one, but a factor in my buying a Roon lifetime subscription earlier this year (saying goodbye to Audirvana and JRiver) was Roon’s reliability in streaming internet radio (flac or lossy).
I agree that sorting on bitrate would be great. I find the streaming stations a great way to find new music.
Having the streaming stations in Roon, with bitrate getting attention, might prompt some stations to further improve stream quality.
Also would love this feature.
All stations that have a flac quality stream have the keyword FLAC
.
Searching for flac via the magnifying glass will bring these up. There are 35 such stations in Roon and as far as I know we are not missing any that are freely available (i.e. no subscription).
If anyone knows of more, let me know!
Yes – ability to sort live radio stations by stream quality would be extremely useful. Even the dreaded Apple Music allows for that.
This does not work when I tried it. “no stations match FLAC”
Use the top right magnifying glass, not the one underneath.
However, because of the way Roon searches work, you only get 50 instead of 150.
Awesome, I was using the filter magnifying glass in the radio section, I tried the main one at the top but must not have looked at the results close enough. Thanks
The filter only works on what ever list is already showing in the live radio section. It doesn’t produce a new list.
Nice workaround! I see that there are now 50 radio stations with the FLAC
keyword. So thank you for that.
In the absence of a filtering by bitrate feature, would it be feasable to next add 320K
keywords for 320K mp3 streams? There would be a bunch more stations, and though lossy, 320K isn’t as bad as the lower MP3 bitrates.
Or maybe implementing a filtering by bitrate feature would be easier and not require manual intervention ;-P
Roon will only show the first 50 stations when any search is performed. There are actually about 150 flac stations in the database.
I have created a post in Live Radio which has the full list.
Not really, for two reasons:
- The same 50 station limit on the search would apply
- There are lots - quite a manual job to find them and there isn’t a script that I could use to generate it automatically.
That’s too bad regarding the 50 station limit.
Feature request: Enhance the More
results button so that it can return additional sets of 50 results with each press, until there are no more results.
Thank you for the posted list, though!