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CD Quality Internet Radio

08/04/2024

Back in the day, no self-respecting hi-fi enthusiast would have been without an FM tuner to receive quality stereo broadcasts. When internet radio was introduced traditional radio stations were quick to make their broadcasts available although the initial quality was often poor. These days there can hardly be a broadcast radio station of any note in the world that does not have a high quality internet presence opening up an almost unimaginable wealth of news, […]

Max Radio Society

05/12/2023

Max Radio Society is an incorporated non-profit society in the Province of British Columbia, Canada operating four internet radio stations – LG73, Max Radio, New West Rock and Uptown Radio. All four stations are available in the UHD Radio app which provides 48kbps xHE-AAc, 80kbps HE-AAC, 384kbps AAC-LC and 512kbps AAC Surround. They did have CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams in the beginning of 2023 but these have now been discontinued. This web player displays […]

K-Free

31/08/2023

K-Free is an internet radio station broadcasting Christian and Contemporary music based in Peoria, Arizona with an HLS encoded CD Quality FLAC stream using StreamS technology. Their website has a webplayer for the FLAC stream and also links for an AAC webplayer and Alexa. The FLAC stream was successfully tested with VLC but foobar would not play the stream. Other media players/network stream devices and browsers may encounter similar problems unless HLS is specifically supported. […]

Classical 90.5 FM

26/08/2023

Classical 90.5 FM is one of three radio stations broadcast both over the air and on internet radio by azpm.org. azpm is a US public broadcaster and a member of both PBS and NPR and is based in Tucson, Arizona. Classical 90.5 FM is as its name suggests dedicated to classical music and broadcasts an HLS encoded CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream using StreamS technology. It also has a 128kbps AAC-LC stream powered by StreamS. […]

C9 Radio

24/08/2023

C9 Radio is a French internet radio station broadcasting a mix of current and past hit music and news from Paris, France. It has a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream, 88kbps AAC-HE stream, a 32kbps AAC-HE v2, a Flexible AAC (HLS) stream and a 192kbps MP3 stream. Their website is available in both French and English with a webplayer and links to the station’s social media pages. The station also offers both an iOS and […]

SomaFM

26/05/2023

SomaFM is a San Francisco based internet radio station broadcasting 39 channels of music in a wide range of genres including 70’s, alternative, ambient, Americana, folk, jazz, rock and many more. The station is listener supported relying on voluntary contributions from its listeners and when we tuned in at noon (UK BST) they had some 7.5k listeners. The station offers a wide range of audio formats including 128kbps and 256kbps MP3 and 32kbps 64kbps and […]

BBC Radio to stop Shoutcast streaming

11/03/2023

BBC Radio to stop Shoutcast streaming from mid-2023 and will focus on HLS and DASH as its preferred audio streaming technologies. According to the broadcaster ‘This will allow us to understand more about how and where our content is consumed and will help us improve the services we offer to our listeners.’ It continues ‘Shoutcast is an older streaming technology and many connected radio devices in the UK no longer use it for BBC streams. […]