I know about a bug in Roon. There is a long standing problem with this station in Roon. It is never been fixed despite several commitments. See this post from Conner.
The link which you are using now is not working on this moment. If I use this link in Google Chrome then it’s automatically converted to http://edge1.sr.se/p2-flac (which inmediately starts the stream).
None of the new url’s are working. The last hour I have read lots of messages about the (FLAC) P2 station on the forum from Sveriges Radio.
The Sverige Radio is using a load balancer on the url live1.sr.se for dividing the streams over two systems, which are on the url’s edge1.sr.se and edge2.sr.se. So in principle we you should use http://live1.sr.se/p2-flac or https://live1.sr.se/p2-flac and their equivalents for the aac and mp3 streams.
As mentioned the current url’s in Roon are not working in my Roon instance. They are working in my Google Chrome browser though.
In the Sverige Radio Forum I found a url for P2 which is working in Roon: https://ljud1-cdn.sr.se/lc/p2.m3u8. Unfortunately it isn’t a FLAC stream but at least it is working for now.
By the way I also found reports on this forum about problems with P2 in Roon. See for example this link.
When I choose the stream https://ljud1-cdn.sr.se/lc/p2.m3u8 programmed in Roon it takes a very, very long time before it starts. But when I create a radio stream manually in Roon with the same url then the audio stream starts immediately. I don’t understand what’s going wrong.
I’ll manually create a radio station with the FLAC URL myself and check it regularly. I’ll let you know when hopefully finally a time comes it will work properly.
Everything is now, since yesterday I think, corrupt for me as Roon user in Sweden. Otherwise I run SR P2 FLAC almost 24/7.
I started to check out if there were any changes from Sveriges Radio - and there were actually: The possibility to choose low latency (until now we have been endowed with the streaming some half a minute later than by broadcasting for buffer reasons). It’s now possible to get rid of.
Here is the complete - updated as of today - list of Swedish Natioinal Radio’s direct streaming links with the feature manually added by me:
Pls. let me know if I can send as a file instead.
Kind regards,
Björn in Stockholm
Sveriges Radio
Official direct streaming links with the extension ‘?latency=low’
For Swedish domestic listeners, noone would choose less than 320 kbps.
This worked one time: I started the new radio station and it was working. Then I stopped the stream and started it again: no luck. From that moment on Roon is complaining that it cannot play the radio station.
This is what also happened yesterday by me and by @BrianW. We (as far as I can tell also @BrianW) then experienced the same issue (the link works just one time).
Just I tought. Could it be that Sveriges Radio accidentally enabled a security feature somewhere that blocks an IP address (from outside Sweden) if a stream is started again within a defined time?
Analysed these.
They are slower but otherwise the content is the same (both have a nonstandard metadata insert at 80000x - which rocketstreamingserver can provide - and Roon doesn’t mind that)
01/11 13:10:46 [Local 01/11 13:10:46] Debug: Try making ICY request to http://live1.sr.se/p2-flac?latency=low
01/11 13:10:50 [Local 01/11 13:10:50] Debug: [internetradio] Internet channel player is giving up on url [http://live1.sr.se/p2-flac?latency=low]
It should be possible to choose as preset one of the lossy ones to prevail, in your Roon client, if it does not work flawless outside Sweden, but for all of us Swedish Roon users we are addicted to the FLAC stream and the current “AAC 320 kbps” choise seem to be a extremely lossy 64 kbps stream…
Finally, at present the same “AAC 320 kpbs” stream contains something completely different than Sveriges Radio P2. [Update: Or maybe not; it seems to be the stream 3 hours ago…]
I’m glad you’re happy the FLAC stream has been reinstated.
However, the issue of the FLAC stream frequently failing to start (causing Roon to try alternative streams) remains unresolved. You mentioned this yourself in your last post.
When the FLAC stream fails to start we will still find the following error in RoonServer.log
Warn: [internetradio] Got HTTP Status 998 from URL:https://live1.sr.se/p2-flac?latency=low
@vadim@connor@daniel
Again, we would be happy if you release the fix which was promised 8 month ago.