I am trying to find a URL to Polish Radio Chopin.
Could you help me?
I’ve found that one: http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s228822&formats=mp3,aac
Roon found the station but when I play Roon says it can’t load that station.
Marcin
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Hello. Sorry, still doesn’t work.
Marcin
Hmm, works for me.
Are you using the database version and not a my live radio link?
Find the station using the TOP RIGHT magnifying glass.
First, I cancelled this station from my library.
Next, I tried to find it using magnifying glass - there are two stations found: “Classical Piano” from Canada and Radio Chopin which we are talking about.
Then I click “play” and it thinks a long while and next there are info: “playing was stopped as it couldn’t load”.
There are two AAC streams and none of these two works.
Can you play other radio stations?
What is your Roon Server on?
Yes, there is no problem with any radio stations - I’ve just tried a few and it is fine.
My Roon Server is placed on NAS - QNAP HS-264, from a long time now.
I restart my NAS, still the same, radio doesn’t work.
Qnaps sometimes have an issue with aac streams.
Just to be be quite clear on the codec front…
Can you try
95bfm (flac)
CJSW (aac)
WRFG (mp3)
How can I do that?
But meantime I’ve checked for example “Polskie Radio: Dwójka” wchich has AAC codec and it doesn’t play either.
The same problem is with “Antyradio”.
So, it could be problem with AAC stream.
Could you help me with that? Also with “Polskie Radio: Dwójka” and “Antyradio”?
Marcin
Just type the station names (CJSW etc) into that magnifying glass.
Anyway, it sounds like you have the QNAP codec issue - the MP3 codecs are there, but not aac. This has affected many Roon users. You will have to load the codecs manually.
This link should help you.
(Make sure to uncompress the downloaded file twice to get the solitary ffmpeg file.)
Works for me to
Sorry for delay in answer.
I will do it today and let you know if it works.
Still nothing…Maybe I do something wrong.
What I did:
a) I download the file from here:
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
I download:
git master: built on 20240504
ffmpeg-git-amd64-static.tar.xz - md5
b) I unpacked it, and then unpacked it again. That makes me a whole folder “ffmpeg-git-20240504-amd64-static”
c) that folder I pasted in “bin” folder. I have four folders on QNAP (bin, RAATServer, RoonGoer and RoonServer".
But “bin” folder isn’t inside RoonServer folder.
d) then I restart the server.
And it doesn’t work.
What did I wrong?
Marcin
Almost there. Within the ffmpeg-git-20240504-amd64-static folder you will find the ffmpeg file (and a few others which you can ignore). That’s the only file to place in the bin directory.
Having said that, I’m a bit uncertain because the link I posted talks about RoonOnNAS/bin directory which you say you don’t have. Did you install Roon some other way?
Anyway, try your bin directory and see.
Great success! It works now!
Thank you very much.
Can I ask you one more question? There are some radio stations which have both MP3 and AAC codecs withe the same quality (for example 128kbps). Is one codec better than the other?
Marcin
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It is generally assumed that aac, being a more modern codec, is better than mp3 at the same bitrate.
However, trust your own ears.
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