Radio Paradise

Hi,

When streaming to chromecast audio dongle on windows 11, the stream stops each time the station announcements come on.
Having to manually press play again each time.
This does not occur with the android app.
Any thoughts would be helpful.

Great station, always has been!

I haven't casted a browser tab in awhile.
Took it for a spin and it didn't go very well. My audio was very garbled.
No reason it shouldn't work though.

But there is a big difference between the two strategies.
When using the Android app, the cast dongle runs everything locally. ie you can turn off your phone and it will keep going.
While when casting a tab, your sending a video/audio stream to the dongle.
Regarding the stopping,
Had a few complaints about that recently.
That might be related to a new browser sleep feature for "inactive" tabs.
Will look into it.

billee561

billee561 Avatar

Location: Belgium

Posted: Feb 21, 2023 - 5:39am
Hi, When streaming to chromecast audio dongle on windows 11, the stream stops each time the station announcements come on. Having to manually press play again each time. This does not occur with the android app. Any thoughts would be helpful. Great station, always has been!

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Feb 17, 2023 - 6:18pm

stupid-ferry wrote:

Hey - RP and Chromecast on Android is having problems - several phones, latest APP and OS. Symptoms: once you get a stream playing, go to cast, stream stops and app gets stuck - can't change channels, go to cache, forward, play - just stops working until the app is forced to stop via settings/apps/

Have noticed a few people having issues with Chromecast so far haven't been able to reproduce that.
The main thing at the moment that can help with the app freezing on some models is to disable any battery optimization.

Most commonly
phone settings -> app -> rp -> battery -> unrestricted.

But setting keeps moving across models and Android versions.

stupid-ferry

Location: Kauai
Gender: Male

Posted: Feb 17, 2023 - 3:41pm

icculus wrote:

I actually just added a note about how I do this to the FLAC thread. Check out this project (castnow) and start streaming any URL to your Chromecast right from the command line. Once you tell the Chromecast what to stream you can turn off your computer. No browser tabs to keep open. It just works.

https://github.com/xat/castnow
$ castnow http://stream.radioparadise.com/aac-320

That's all there is to it.

icculus

icculus Avatar

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Posted: Oct 7, 2019 - 2:41pm

Jota wrote:

Hi,

Will Chromecast support be added to the iPad app? If not, what other option do I have to use the Radio Paradise iPad app and stream the music to my RME ADI2 DAC? I can Airplay music to my amplifier but would rather it goes via my DAC. The Chromecast setup works from the Google Home app, but that's no use for the RP app.

Thanks.

Adding Chromecast support to iOS apps is not at all easy. It's nothing at all like supporting Airplay2. We'll be adding Chromecast support to our new Android app (currently in Beta, you can sign up for that in the Play Store), but iOS support isn't currently in the works.

William

William Avatar

Location: Eureka!
Gender: Male

Posted: Oct 6, 2019 - 3:53pm

Jota wrote:

Hi,

Thanks.

Jota

Location: Scotland

Posted: Oct 6, 2019 - 11:22am
Hi, Will Chromecast support be added to the iPad app? If not, what other option do I have to use the Radio Paradise iPad app and stream the music to my RME ADI2 DAC? I can Airplay music to my amplifier but would rather it goes via my DAC. The Chromecast setup works from the Google Home app, but that's no use for the RP app. Thanks.

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Aug 15, 2019 - 2:42pm

In the past usually required power-cycling something, probably router. Another thing that can mess it up is if the phones clock time is out of sync.

Mardler wrote:

I am running that already.

Until today the app had a cast icon: now, on two phones, it has gone.

Mardler wrote:

I could have sworn that I had seen the cast icon on the Android app (not iOS) but perhaps not.

Any idea when the full Chromecast Audio support will be available?

TIA

Richard in Norfolk, UK

PS: only checked because of the big TuneIn Radio outage today.

jarro wrote:

Should be available to everyone in the play store, if for some reason you can't access it. It is available to be sideloaded.

https://radioparadise.com/listen/android/downloads

Via the test version.

philomath wrote:

Can we try out the beta? I didn't see an open beta link in the Play Store.
Thanks,
David

Mardler

Location: Norfolk, UK
Gender: Male

Posted: Aug 15, 2019 - 8:26am

I am running that already.

Until today the app had a cast icon: now, on two phones, it has gone.

Mardler wrote:

Can we try out the beta? I didn't see an open beta link in the Play Store.
Thanks,
David

Mardler

Location: Norfolk, UK
Gender: Male

Posted: Aug 15, 2019 - 5:03am

Can we try out the beta? I didn't see an open beta link in the Play Store.
Thanks,
David

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Jul 2, 2019 - 12:00pm
Should be available to everyone in the play store, if for some reason you can't access it. It is available to be sideloaded. https://radioparadise.com/listen/android/downloads Via the test version. philomath wrote: Can we try out the beta? I didn't see an open beta link in the Play Store. Thanks, David

philomath

Posted: Jul 2, 2019 - 5:20am

Can we try out the beta? I didn't see an open beta link in the Play Store.
Thanks,
David

jarro wrote:

Currently updating the Andrdoid app to support the new player features. Chromecast support will be part of this release, looking forward to getting casting polished and out of beta.

TonyApuzzo wrote:

Chromecast sort-of works for me, but it is very flaky.

The symptom I have is that it works for a few songs, and then there will be a station announcement and after that no new music is played. If I manually re-cast, then it may work or what happens more frequently is that it will re-play the last half or so of the most recent song and then the station announcement will play and it will stop again.

Also, it will frequently not work at all when I cast. Instead of playing anything, it will connect to the Chromecast but show "No Media Selected" in the cast window and nothing plays at all. I can hit "Stop Casting" and re-try but once this starts happening it will never work again until I cast with another app and then go back to RP in which case it might work or might not.

This has been happening for months with the beta app for me. I've sent numerous comments to the developer using the beta feedback on the Google Play store, but no apparent progress has been made on this issue.

Am I just unlucky or do other people have this same problem?

NOTE: This is when casting to Chromecast Audio. When I use Chromecast Video, it does seem to work better, but still never as reliably as when using the Roku app for example which will play for days without interruption.

NOTE2: I used to use the Tunein Radio app which has Radio Paradise and used to cast to Chromecast Audio reliably, but recently it has also been super flakey, so I've gone back to trying to play using the RP Android App.

NOTE3: I don't think it is my network since I can stream 4K video plus multiple 1080p simultanously without hiccups on my connection.

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Nov 28, 2018 - 1:34pm

Chromecast sort-of works for me, but it is very flaky.

Am I just unlucky or do other people have this same problem?

NOTE3: I don't think it is my network since I can stream 4K video plus multiple 1080p simultanously without hiccups on my connection.

TonyApuzzo

TonyApuzzo Avatar

Location: Boulder, CO

Posted: Nov 27, 2018 - 10:14am

Chromecast sort-of works for me, but it is very flaky.

Am I just unlucky or do other people have this same problem?

NOTE3: I don't think it is my network since I can stream 4K video plus multiple 1080p simultanously without hiccups on my connection.

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Nov 11, 2018 - 12:17pm

It's an open beta. The button to join is near the bottom of the RP page in the play store app.
Can take up to an hour for the update to be available after joining.

Richman wrote:

SummitPlot wrote:

I have installed the beta player on my Android phone. Chromecasting works just fine but none of the tabs - song info, comments or lyrics - updates. They're all stuck on something from way back. Am I missing something? (I'm based in the UK, in case it's a regional thing.)

Hi, have you access to the beta app?
Iâm based in the East Midlands in England, UK. Happy to contribute to beta testing.

Richman

Richman Avatar

Location: Nottingham, UK
Gender: Male

Posted: Nov 11, 2018 - 4:05am

SummitPlot wrote:

Hi, have you access to the beta app?
I’m based in the East Midlands in England, UK. Happy to contribute to beta testing.

Richman

Richman Avatar

Location: Nottingham, UK
Gender: Male

Posted: Nov 11, 2018 - 4:02am
Hi folks, I'm running the RP app on my TV, via Google's Home app. The approach is to cast the screen of your device onto your TV. Here's the link to the Google Support page for anyone who'd rather steer clear of 3rd party app, while Bill and Rebecca work on Chromecast support for the RP app: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6059461?hl=en-GB

SummitPlot

Posted: Oct 31, 2018 - 8:09am
I have installed the beta player on my Android phone. Chromecasting works just fine but none of the tabs - song info, comments or lyrics - updates. They're all stuck on something from way back. Am I missing something? (I'm based in the UK, in case it's a regional thing.)

deremmo4050

Posted: Sep 30, 2018 - 2:00am
I have a Teufel Raumfeld for casting to my stereo, works fine. No skipping songs though.

jarro

Location: #guad
Gender: Male

Posted: Jul 15, 2018 - 12:53am
It's still in beta, but you can install the beta via the play store now. The button to join is near the bottom of the RP page in the play store app. Can take up to an hour for the update to be available after joining. mumpi wrote: Still nothing? Any updates? This is work in progress since 4 years now!!! Love RP but please, share some love with us Cromecasters too.

Page: 1, 2, 3 Next