BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[Cebolla]

Hi Simon

Many thanks for providing this. I certainly agree with the comments about the excellent sound quality of the BBC R3 lossless FLAC stream.

I've tried the MinimServer/MinimStreamer prototype with the following streamers, all of which are able to play the FLAC stream provided by the prototype, without requiring transcoding to WAV:
Pioneer N-50 *
Denon DNP-F109 *
Google Chromecast Audio (UPnP to Google Cast bridge provided by the BubbleUPnP Android app)
Samsung F6400 TV
openhome.org's OpenHome Player (running on a Raspberry Pi 2, under Raspbian Jessie Lite)
foobar2000 with the UPnP renderer provided by the foo_upnp plugin (on a Windows 10 laptop)

* These streamers required the stream's URL to have a .flac suffix, in order for them to recognise it as playable - easily sorted out by adding the flac audio type as the additional audio info in the playlist entry, as per the MinimStreamer user manual.

All the devices were tested playing the BBC R3 lossless stream for at least half an hour and all worked flawlessly.

I've also had the Chromecast Audio playing the stream for over 24 hours and the only (minor) issue has been one "unable to play media segment" message logged by MinimServer, with no apparent disconnection of the stream itself.

John