The Jazz Groove - major overhaul

[Melvin]

I'm a fan of this listener-supported Jazz station, which is a service of the Foundation to Advance Jazz, and listen daily. The music is of the laid-back variety, great for early mornings/late nights and I've discovered a lot of beautiful music listening to this station. Among the recent changes to their site are the new Premium and Premium + options, which include flac streaming! All of the new Premium features are free until July 20th if you care to check them out. I'm now a Premium + subscriber.

 

The Jazz Groove

[Melvin]

Just to follow up .. the free Premium + trial ended on 7/20 and as promised I received an email with log-in instructions. I was hoping for flac streaming on every device but apparently the Premium + functions are web-based only. That said, I've had a really nice experience so far. The flac stream is stable and the sound quality is much better than the typical aac/mp3 radio streams, as it should be. My Qute EX lights up orange indicating 48 kHz. I assume it's 16/48 and not 24/48. Nonetheless, the sound quality is terrific. This was money very well spent for me.

[Melvin]

Boy, they've been playing some really good music this morning. Here's a screenshot from a little while ago:

 

[Melvin]

16 hours ago, austinpop said:

I read about this in Paul McGowan's blog today. I understand they're struggling, but unless they can supply the premium lossless streaming through Roon via URL, it's a tough sell...

 

 

Nice to see Paul mentioning them. If one is all-in with Roon I see your point, of course. For Roon-ies using a Sonore Rendu product the Shairport function works exceptionally well and is a potential work-around (Roon supports AirPort, no?).

[Melvin]

54 minutes ago, Melvin said:

(Roon supports AirPort, no?)

 

Sorry .. I meant AirPlay.