Listening to AAC+ radio

[Linda_CH]

I downloaded RadioDroid from F-Droid. It works fine with MP3 radio stations but cannot play stations that are described as AAC+. I am particularly interested in Radio Vostok (www.radiovostok.ch) but have tested two more AAC+ stations, that didn’t work either. Do you think I need an extra app to allow playback? I asked on the App’s Github page; users with other Android-driven phones don’t have the same problem.

If someone can recommend another web radio player, that might be a solution, too.

[TobiasF]

Try it with VLC. It is able to play many formats, but I personally haven’t tried AAC+ radio stations with VLC.

[BertG]

Just gave it a try:
Running Fairphone OS 17.11.2
Installed RadioDroid
Played some Radio Stations (MP3 as well as AAC+) and everything went fine.

So it’s not the combination of player, OS and phone, that’s causing the problem.
Haven’t found anything in the phone settings, either.
Could it be due to the network provider or contract?

[Linda_CH]

Just tried it out - seems to work. Apparently, VLC can play this format while the standard Android player can’t. Thank you!

[Linda_CH]

Installing VLC did the job. I’m running 17.11.2, too. You must have some other app installed that made it work, I guess…

[BertG]

Yeah, you were right of course, I am running the standard (Google) Fairphone OS. Missed to check the category. (In reply to your withdrawn post!)
So it seems to be a bug of FP Open.
I can’t think of another app I am using that could make it work.
Just great, that VLC works for you.
Btw. what version are you running and where did you get it? Asking because of this thread:

Installing VLC via a play store

I have a problem installing VLC. When using Yalp, it says that the 2.0.6 version on the Google play store is not compatible with my phone (or the other way around ). I can’t find it on FDroid but that doesn’t really surprise me because of all the non-open codecs. Manually installing the arm7 2.5.9 version from the VLC website works fine. My questions: Where does this incompatibility come from ? Is there a way to keep VLC up-to-date automatically ? Does anyone know why the version on t…

[Linda_CH]

I tried to download it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and was redirected to google, so I got it via Yalp. It’s version 2.5.12; in the description, it says it doesn’t depend on anything (in other words, no GSF needed).

[BertG]

Thx for the info. I guess I will “update” my VLC-player via Yalp then too, as I am stuck with version 2.1.20, the last one, that was available on F-Droid, before it became unavailable.