I enjoy the Roon Live Radio but I notice my Roon Server loses the connection exactly five seconds after the station goes to commercial breaks. And then manually pressing play repeats this problem until regular programming resumes. Is this the reality of streamed radio? Roon uses Audacy links for radio, at least for the station I want, WXRT. What I also see is that this problem does not occur if I instead bypass Roon entirely and access the station through my SONOS audio endooints. In that scenario the signal never drops.
Why can’t Roon and Audacy fully commit and play together?
As I am in the UK I cannot properly test through Roon, but analysing the .m3u8 stream, I see that the underlying m3u playlist references a different server during commercials. That server still uses a chunked stream but one that Roon has trouble with - stopping at the end of the first chunk.
The alternative mp3 stream will be OK, but unfortunately I can’t find a different aac stream.