I'm new to Moode Audio. I'm running 7.2.1 on a Raspberry pi 3 in a DLNA. Moode Audio is the renderer. I'm having trouble playing internet radio. This URL works for KALX:
http://stream.kalx.berkeley.edu:8000/kalx-320.aac.m3u
And this one for BBC3:
http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_radio_three
But try as I may, I cannot figure out the correct URL for KUSC (kusc.org). The article on how to find URLs seems to have been removed.
Moode is very superior to what I had been using for everything else. I badly want to make this work!
Thank you both.
Either works on VLC on my desktop. Either works with an Auralic Aries Mini. Neither work on the Mood renderer. I am clearly doing something wrong. Any ideas?
Moode....$%&R! spellcheck.
You say you are using moOde as a renderer, so I guess you are entering the URL into a controller somewhere and asking that to send the stream to moOde over UPnP right? In which case it is probably the controller that has bother. The KALX URL you supplied is for a playlist (m3u file) so it could be that your controller wants a playlist file rather than an MP3 or AAC file like we found.
For example, I use BubbleUPnP as a controller and I have radio stations as playlist files stored on my NAS where a UPnP server is running (minimserver), BubbleUPnP reads the playable URL from those playlist files and asks moOde (renderer) to play them. That works for me.
Much simpler though is to add the URLs directly to moOde as new radio stations (although BBC radio 3 is already there) and play them directly from the moOde web interface...
That's a good idea, but I don't think it applies. Here's why:
Moode is being used as a renderer. The control point is either Linn Audio's 'Kazoo' when operating from a desktop, or their 'Linn' when operating from a mobile. Moode is set to OpenHome. The server is Minimserver running on a NAS. The control point can be used to control either the Moode renderer which goes to one amp, or the Auralic Aries Mini which operates as a renderer for another amp. That's the same control point for either system. It works with the Aries, but not with the Moode.
I haven't tried too many other control points. I have looked at Auralic's Lightning DS and a couple of others but I like the simple lists that the Linn apps present. They work well when dealing with 35K+ tracks, etc.
I use this setup because I have a database of classical music and Minimserver handles that better than anything that I've seen.
So the first, and simplest thing to try is to set moOde to UPnP/AV rather than OpenHome. Make sure your control points are not running when you switch in case they only see the friendly name and think nothing has changed. If that isn't successful (after rebooting the whole stack, just in case), then we need to investigate how you tell the control point where the stream is, and what it subsequently sends to the renderer.
Thank you.
I had set it to OpenHome in the first place because neither Kazoo nor Linn saw the Moode renderer in UPnP/AV mode. Just now I reset it to UPnP/AV: Linn and Kazoo do not see renderer, MConnect does but the KUSC stream given to me by Sniglar still does not work.
It's puzzling. I had the same problems when I was using Volumio on a raspberry pi and more or less just gave up. Recently, I've found, no surprise, that the PCM output of the raspberry pi is as good as the Aries Mini. Volumio was always a problem because it often fails to load all the tracks in albums with many tracks and always loads them quite slowly. Moode works much, much, better: fast and never drops a track. I'm motivated to make this work so that I can move the Aries Mini to another place in the house with a less good DAC and just use the DAC in the amp (Peachtree Audio Nova 150), which would take its PCM from Moode.
I'm very grateful for your help. What's next?