JB Radio2

[TheOldPresbyope]

Curious.

This happens when I play the FLAC stream in moOde 7.6 but not in VLC on a laptop. In VLC it progresses from song to song just as it does in AAC. 

Maybe it's an issue with the ICY data interspersed with the audio stream or maybe they close and reopen the stream with each song or ....?

The JB Radio website admits to only two endpoints:  .../mp3 and .../aac

This leads me to believe they are still experimenting with their flac encoder.

Here's the header returned if one 'curls' the FLAC stream

Code:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Icecast 2.4.4
Connection: Close
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:20:22 GMT
Content-Type: application/ogg
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
icy-description:Commercial-Free Web Radio
icy-genre:Eclectic,Rock,Blues
icy-name:JB Radio
icy-pub:1
icy-url:https://jb-radio.net

compared to the header for the AAC stream

Code:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Icecast 2.4.4
Connection: Close
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:22:09 GMT
Content-Type: audio/aacp
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
icy-br:320
ice-audio-info: ice-samplerate=44100;ice-bitrate=320;ice-channels=2
icy-br:320
icy-description:Commercial-Free Web Radio
icy-genre:Eclectic,Rock,Blues
icy-name:JB RADIO
icy-pub:1
icy-url:https://jb-radio.net

Note how minimal the FLAC header is by comparison. Somebody's not taking this seriously.

Regards,
Kent