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Thanks for working on this, although with an Echo, 4 Dots and 2 Google Homes running I get mixed results on both iHeart and Tunein for your stations. Google Homes cannot find them. Dots can on iHeart and Tunein but sometimes when I stop the playing it takes a while for these stations to disconnect. Then, I cannot play known stations and need to unplug the Dots to reset them so they work right again.
Quote from: dccircuit on August 18, 2017, 04:14:37 pmHello, everyone. I work for WXXI/WRUR and we found out from iHeartRadio that there's an incompatibility problem between our streaming provider's HLS formatted streams and their Amazon app. So, they've switched to using one of our other stream formats until our streaming provider's HLS streams work better with their app. Can you give these stations a try again (through the iHeart app) and see if they stay online longer? Thanks for discussing this here and thanks to the person who sent us a link to this forum.I'm still having the same problem. I'm not sure what you mean by the Amazon app. Perhaps you mean a "skill," the name Amazon gives to apps on Echo. But this behavior occurs on the stock Amazon echo (an Echo Dot, in my case), without any special iheartradio app.
Hello, everyone. I work for WXXI/WRUR and we found out from iHeartRadio that there's an incompatibility problem between our streaming provider's HLS formatted streams and their Amazon app. So, they've switched to using one of our other stream formats until our streaming provider's HLS streams work better with their app. Can you give these stations a try again (through the iHeart app) and see if they stay online longer? Thanks for discussing this here and thanks to the person who sent us a link to this forum.
FYI, the Googhe Home internet radio experience works just like Alexa, ie, ask it to play a station and it does. GH appears to default to iHeart, so it only plays from Tunein when specified.
OK, results of asking Google Home to:play WXXI on Tunein: it played most times, a few times it could not find itplay WXXI on lHeart: played it every timeI asked GH to play WRUR on Tunein and iHeart services and both said they could not find it.