Radio Mast is a collection of sample audio streams provided by Radiomast, a Canadian internet radio hosting provider. There are CD Quality Lossless FLAC, MP3, AAC-LC, HE-ACC, Vorbis and Opus streams with varying bit rates and available both in secure (https) and non-secure (http) formats. As there a large number of links see the playlist links below to allow you to upload them into your player of choice.
According to the company, “These sample live audio streams are available for personal and commercial use, free of charge. These streams can be used for diagnosing player issues, quality assurance, comparing stream hosting providers, experimenting with different codecs, testing listening environments, and more. We are providing these as a service to the radio community, with the hope of improving the compatibility and interoperability within the streaming audio ecosystem.
All streams are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The streams feature a hand-picked selection of licensed, royalty-free music tracks, playing on shuffle.”
Website: https://www.radiomast.io/reference-streams
CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://streams.radiomast.io/ref-lossless-ogg-flac-stereo and http://streams.radiomast.io/ref-lossless-ogg-flac-stereo
M3U Playlist – https: https://www.radiomast.io/reference-streams.m3u
M3U Playlist – http: https://www.radiomast.io/reference-streams.m3u?variant=http
M3U Playlist – HLS: https://www.radiomast.io/reference-streams.m3u?variant=hls
To find out more about CD Quality Internet Radio go here.
To find out more about HiRes Internet Radio go here.
To get further information on:
How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with free media players go here.
How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with your browser go here.
