My Canberra reappeared on digital radio and the streams sometime today. It’s unbelievable that it takes over three days to get it back online.
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So you’ve never had the stream just stop inexplicably… and often? Happens all the time for me on iHeart. It just stops and you’ve got to hit play again. I can’t stand it.
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I don’t have any problem with streaming services in the car. Great integration, easy to use, and great sound quality for select stations.
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nope. Never.
Wow that’s great.
But judging by the huge amount of online help and forums on the topic of randomly stopping streaming I don’t think I’m alone.
For instance if you Google “my iHeart (or other) streaming radio just stops…”. There’s a lot.
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Definitely surprising that Hit Romeo hasn’t been chosen. I’m sure that the Capulets would love it though.
But given that you’d think a love based station would probably fall under Hit’s demographic a bit more, despite the “rock song dedications”, it makes for a strange choice.
I would think it would be Hit Juliet rather than Romeo.
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That’s a bad name for a radio station.
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I know!
But really any such name that starts with Hit is probably going against Domestic Violence awareness.
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Would it be for those streaming Australian stations? I stream US ones and have never had a dropout.
I’m streaming a US one right now and it’s dropping out all the time. Same thing on the Absolute radio app from the UK. Some days it’s ok, other days it drops out constantly.
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It was a joke.
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Wonder if they’ll go for the Nova tie-in: Nova Chilled?
How are they returning? Does Nova have the bandwidth?
If anything it’ll be known as Smooth Chill.
I don’t know about the other cities, but Nova 96.9’s DAB+ channel here in Sydney is 112kbps. I presume that will go back down to 64kbps.
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According to this link, the same goes for Nova 100’s DAB+ channel in Melbourne. In Brisbane, Nova 106.9’s DAB+ channel is at 64kpbs.
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Do they need to simulcast the Main FM stations on DAB+ as well? That takes up bandwidth by doing that?
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Yes, they have to.
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I’m pleased that the FM stations are simulcast on DAB.
It makes it a more holistic service, all the main AM/FM stations in the one spot, and most in stereo (including those that are simulcast on AM in mono).