Are MP3 radios of high quality?

Nowadays, I can’t consider MP3 radios to be of good quality. Apparently only FLAC radios with corresponding bitratte can be described as high quality.

However, I did not find such a radio in the radios - High Quality offer.
(nor can you filter or sort by encoding and bitrate)

What scale is required to include radio in High Quality?

Frequence 3 is a french’s radio wich stream in flac 48kHz but Audirvana can’t read this. The stream is only in MP3. I don’t understand why

https://frequence3.net-radio.fr/frequence3.flac

The flac stream of Frequence 3 is listed in Audirvana, but it refuses to play. It hangs on loading. But if I try to play a flac stream of Radio Paradise, then Audirvana plays it immediately.

Edit:
I’ve noticed that Frequence 3 is being listed as 48 kHz Flac stream, while the Radio Paradise ones are all 44,1 kHz. The mp3 streams of Frequence 3 are also 44,1 kHz. Could that be the issue?

I tried to connect to the stream of a Flac German jazz radio, but AS was unable to play Flac.

Do you remember the radio stations name? :slight_smile:

Ok I guess it depends on ones system…

My MacBook Air currently plays on it’s internal soundchip and it fails to play the Frequence 3 flac stream with AS. It does play the stream in Chrome through the link @Christophe45 provided.

My Windows laptop is connected to my Terratec Aureon 7.1 USB soundcard which supports 48 kHz and the flac stream of Frequence 3 plays right away with AS. But when the stream plays it’s being listed as 44.1 kHz.

MOTHER EARTH RADIO:
https://www.streamserver24.com/metafiles/motherearth.pls

Succesfully plays here on both Mac and Windows.

Good news that V1.5.1 plays it. Previous versions of AS did not play it.

1.5.5 actually. Audirvana just got updated :slight_smile:

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