Hello @ToreB, you’ve come across an issue which is affecting some UK listeners. The 320k stream is UK only but because of a bug in Roon, the geographical restriction was being wrongly applied to UK listeners.
Since yesterday Radio Veronica is not playing anymore. Error message that appears after a couple of seconds is “Playback was interrupted because a track failed to load.”
A general question: if a stream changes or trackers have to be updated. Don’t you have a system to automatically detect it?
How TuneIn manages to maintain its millions of stations always working?
Is it not better for you to include TuneIn as a service same as Tidal and Qobuz?
Regarding updating streams - I can’t see how it could be done automatically. While it is possible to detect when a stream no longer works, the source can (and often does) change servers altogether. There is the rudiments of stream monitoring in Roon but so far roon users are quicker to inform the curators. We then manually analyse the site to determine the new stream.
Perhaps Tunein receive notifications and updates from the sources. It is certainly the case that other aggregators have the same problems as we do with streams becoming unavailable.
You are permitted to include Tunein streams in your own my live radio area, but Roon does not use them in its own community wide database.
(An added wrinkle. Are you aware that Tunein are now blocked from providing international radio stations to UK listeners? See here for example.)
Is there a problem with the “Dash radio” family of stations through Roon? I have used “Dash Alternative”, “Dash X”, “Dash Indie”, etc. for months with no problems, but Roon now shows an error that the “Station no longer exists” for any of them. I tried online and can stream at the Dash radio website (https://dashradio.com/genres) and through various apps.
