Cannot hear radio Czech flac streams

[borgibo]

Hello,

Since the 20th of this month I am unable to listen to http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac streams any longer. The streams seem to reach the computer at their normal average rate of 100KB (800kbit/s) but there is no sound.

Has anybody experienced same? I use vlc to listen and record. The new flac Absolute radio is ok most of the time, it is on trial they say, works very well when streaming at an average of 150KB. Hence there is no problem with my equipment.

Regards,

borgibo

[Labarum]

I have not been able to play the D-Dur FLAC stream recently.

I thought it could be my system, but clearly not. I cannot play the stream with either VLC or Foobar.

Could it have been discontinued?

The Maxi-OGG stream at 256kb/s is fine.

[Krisbee]

Tried to play the cesky FLAC stream in Linux, but no sound.



mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.0 -playlist http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac
Resolving radio.cesnet.cz for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: radio.cesnet.cz
Resolving radio.cesnet.cz for AF_INET...
Connecting to server radio.cesnet.cz[195.113.161.70]: 8000...
Name : Cesky rozhlas D-dur
Genre : classical
Website: http://www.rozhlas.cz
Public : no
Bitrate: 128kbit/s
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

The stream is found and is being downloaded but nothing is audible. :scratch:

As Brian said, the OGG stream is OK.

[Vincent Kars]

Bitrate: 128kbit/s
This is way to low to be FLAC, looks like MP3

[Labarum]

Still no FLAC stream. Does anyone know anything?

[Vincent Kars]

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=pcaudio&m=77675

[Labarum]

Thanks

I have been trying to find this URL recently, so will copy it here are a reminder

http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2008/using-flac-encoding/

[Vincent Kars]

If Tony Lauck is right, the experiment is ended, time to send an Email to this radio station and ask them to continue.

[Krisbee]

I did just that on 26/7. Emailed d-dur@rozhlas.cz to ask status of their experimental FLAC stream, but I never received a reply. May be someone else will have better luck.

[Vincent Kars]

On AudioAsylum somebody reports it is working again: http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=pcaudio&m=78450

[Labarum]

Yes. I can get it again. Thanks for the notification.

[dave2010]

Looks like it is working, in that if I connect to it on my Mac a seemingly infinite download occurs, and the FLAC icon appears. Does anyone have advice about what software to use to get it to play on an iMac? Configuration?

[Labarum]

VLC media Player streams it in Windows, so I guess it will in OSX.

Go Media|Network Stream and paste in the URL.

http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

The Stream is an OGG FLAC - FLAC in an OGG container, but don't ask me what that means

[dave2010]

On AudioAsylum somebody reports it is working again: http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=pcaudio&m=78450Indeed it does seem to work, as checked in VLC on both a PC and an iMac. Perhaps a good way of racking up a high download bill with your ISP - or at least it could be for me.

[serendipitydawg]

Just noticed this wonderful service no longer works.

does anyone know anything? have they discontinued FLAC streaming?

[Labarum]

I cannot access the flac stream either. I have tried both the VLC and Foobar players which would formerly handle the format.

[Marco]

Hi Brian,

Good to see you again, after such a long time. Hope you're keeping well :)

Marco.

[Labarum]

Well yes. Or do I mean "Well, yes."?

Of late I have not contributed much to any forum. I visit a number from time to time a see the same issues going round in the same circles!

Nothing new under the sun?

And I hope you too are well, Marco.

[Marco]

I'm fine, Brian, and good to hear you are, too. Always enjoyed your contributions, so I hope you can find the time to post more :)

Marco.