Many thanks kerosene!
Found it in Roon (went to Locations > United States > Colorado) and listened to it for a couple of hours today, first on my ipad while sitting on the deck and then on the main rig. Shows it streaming as MP3 44.1 kHz and 192 kbps. It sounds great.
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It’s been running for the past 6 hours on my Auralic Altair G1 just fine, @ 44.1 kHz / 192 Kbps. Hasn’t skipped a beat.
I like that Jessica comes on every once in a while and comments on the music and such. It reminds me of when I was a kid listening to NPR when they actually played music and spoke about the music, who played it, etc, etc.
In fact, Jessica is on right now talking about jazz, bass and drums, organ, brass and such.
Thanks Paul, Jessica, Octave Records! I always love it when music and/or your radio station takes me back to my childhood, spending time with my father in front of his stereo.
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Working well for me now and enjoying it very much. Not sure what, if anything changed, other than a power-down and up, but all good now🙂
Thanks for the URL Kerosene. Up and running on Aurender N100. Nice
Glad to see that the Octave Records channel is now broadcasting. I, too, had no trouble getting the URL entered into the Sense app of my Innuos Zen2.
I’d also like to be able to play this through the Amazon Echo device in the kitchen, but haven’t figured out how to enter the URL in the Alexa app. Does anyone know how to do this?
Welcome aboard SalsaCycle! Great thread to get started on.
Are you using the Aurender Conductor app to access it? Because I can’t seem to get it to find anything.
It works well in Jriver Mediaplayer. JRemote shows 44.1/16 but MKII display shows 44.1/24
@Paul if flac is problematic, is it possible to stream as WAV? That would sound even better!
No. Well, yes, but then without metadata like song titles and cover art. FLAC and this high rate MP3 are the only options I see that sound good and contain metadata.
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I’ve looked on Roon again and now I can’t find Octave Radio. Any advice?
Its a little long winded but here’s the path:
Live radio > Locations > United States > Colorado > Octave Radio.
Once located you should be able to copy and paste the station address into your saved stations
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Yes using the Aurender Conducter. Octave doesnt show up in recommended or top 500. You have to add it manually. To do this click on the radio “favourites” tab. Once you are in then on the top right there is a + button. If you click on this it shows a dialogue box where you can add the URL that was provided by Kerosene, add the Octave title and once entered it should then be selectable for the play queue.
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What a wonderful new listening source…sounds fantastic via my Innuos Zen Mini & Mk2 combo. Thanks Paul and Octave records!!!
Thanks! I’ll try that out when I get home from work tonight.
320kbps AAC uses way more advanced compression algorithms than mp3 - leading to better SQ.
If not lossless, I hope you can switch to this
AAC is very much an iTunes, iPhone, iThingee format.
Various Windows’ players support it, but is it ubiquitous on Windows machines so that users can expect to play an audio stream simply by pointing at a given URL?
Googling gives the answer in less words than typed there.
Answer is yes of course.
Someone is a bit grumpy. 
After your nap, please share this obvious, perfect Google search.
I found various Windows programs which will readily play AAC, but no indication AAC is Windows ubiquitous as it is iThingees ubiquitous.
I used “Does Windows use AAC?” I found the answer depended on hardware and all sorts of variables, along with references to AAC works better on OS hardware. I readily admit I may have missed something however.
Thus, the query.
It might be used by Apple but it is also used by Android and Windows today
It is not developed by Apple at all. So I don’t understand the repeating mention of iThings and Airpods etc. Maybe you are confusing with ALAC?
It is developed by the same organization that developed mp3, with partners that are not Apple.
Assuming you are using latest Windows 11 or latest Windows 10.
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