High quality radio
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You can play whatever high quality bandwidth streams you can find through Open Network Stream. Isn't that enough?
How would you define good quality/high bandwidth? When it comes to Internet radio many stations don't even produce a stream better than 128 kbps MP3. Nothing WiiM could do about that. Radio Paradise when selected as a music service e.g. is lossless FLAC.
The station search on vTuner explicitly lists the available bitrate and compression algorithm.
castalla
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Vtuner replies with internal server error 500
Here are a few hi-res radios you can add using Open Network Stream
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See
Thread 'List of radio station URLs'
https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/list-of-radio-station-urls.1518/
Thread 'List of radio station URLs'
https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/list-of-radio-station-urls.1518/
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HiRes Internet Radio
How to listen to HiRes Internet Radio in 24-bit lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of HiRes Internet Radio stations.
www.hiresaudio.online
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Other than Radio Paradise what other stations are available via WiiM in high res audio? I just tried to access my usual stations (Radio 4, 6, London) via Vtuner, and that appears to not be working. So I’ll stick to listening to them now via the BBC Radio option on WiiM Home (but I’m unclear as to what the quality of these streams are, as it’s not published). 
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See various suggestions in this thread. Use the Open Network Stream to add the url to WiiMOther than Radio Paradise what other stations are available via WiiM in high res audio? I just tried to access my usual stations (Radio 4, 6, London) via Vtuner, and that appears to not be working. So I’ll stick to listening to them now via the BBC Radio option on WiiM Home (but I’m unclear as to what the quality of these streams are, as it’s not published).
Internet Radio Stations - List of radio station URLs
In terms of high quality or international stations, or just some I like, here’s a playlist of radio stations I’ve amassed over the years. I really need to tidy the list up a bit, but you might spot something you like assuming the URL still works (not sure if the bbc simulcast ones are the ones...
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Not sure if Wiim works with https://www.radio-browser.info/ search but thats where you find FLAC and all the other radio channels.
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Not directly, you’d need to find the url of the station you want and add it via Open Network Stream
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INCREDIBLE Thank you so much. This has opened up a whole new world of hi res internet radio to me. Amazing 
Thank you so much. This has opened up a whole new world of hi res internet radio to me. Amazing https://www.radio-browser.info/ shows every stream´s URL so adding a stream URL manually can be done currently in a Wiim.
Hopefully adding radio channels more easily from radio-browser will be supported in Wiims in the future though.
Like this, examples from HifiberryOS64 search, first search with the search term "yle" and another search with the search term "flac".
Just press the star sign and the webradio channel gets added to your favourites.
Very handy.
Hopefully adding radio channels more easily from radio-browser will be supported in Wiims in the future though.
Like this, examples from HifiberryOS64 search, first search with the search term "yle" and another search with the search term "flac".
Just press the star sign and the webradio channel gets added to your favourites.
Very handy.
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Some more updated streams to play via Open Network Stream in Hi Res 24/96 for your convinience:
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Awesome! More favourite hi res music stations recommendations please Radio Paradise and my usual BBC stations are fine. But I’d like to check out a few more that folk really recommend now. Just listened to Mother Earth Jazz, which is immediately now on one of my 12 presets.
Radio Paradise and my usual BBC stations are fine. But I’d like to check out a few more that folk really recommend now. Just listened to Mother Earth Jazz, which is immediately now on one of my 12 presets.
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Probably mentioned in the link I posted but worth repeatingAwesome! More favourite hi res music stations recommendations please
HiRes Internet Radio
How to listen to HiRes Internet Radio in 24-bit lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of HiRes Internet Radio stations.
www.hiresaudio.online
CD Quality Internet Radio
How to listen to CD Quality Internet Radio in lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of CD Quality Internet Radio stations.
www.hiresaudio.online
Highres Audio Streaming and Lossless Internet Radio - HiFi OnAir
Lossless and High Definition Internet Radio and Streaming Sources in OGG, FLAC, VORBIS and more - an overview about HD radio streams and stations
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Yes, got that. And that’s a very useful but very LONG comprehensive list of ALL hi res stations. I’m just after 3/4/5 other personal recommendations that folk recommend and listen to regularly by habit, if possibleProbably mentioned in the link I posted but worth repeating
HiRes Internet Radio
How to listen to HiRes Internet Radio in 24-bit lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of HiRes Internet Radio stations.CD Quality Internet Radio
How to listen to CD Quality Internet Radio in lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of CD Quality Internet Radio stations.Highres Audio Streaming and Lossless Internet Radio - HiFi OnAir
Lossless and High Definition Internet Radio and Streaming Sources in OGG, FLAC, VORBIS and more - an overview about HD radio streams and stationswww.24bit96.com
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Does YLE have FLAC streams? I couldn't get the search to work on the Radio-browser page.
No FLAC streams by Yle yet.
Your search could be messed up by a browser addon of yours perhaps.
It should look like this:
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