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Mostly stations collected from https://www.hiresaudio.online/cd-quality-internet-radio/ but also some that I found scouring the web.
If any stations do not play, they either went quiet and I'm still waiting until they perhaps show up again, or they need to reboot their streaming server. I try to update this list often. Some stations may not work if you use a VPN.
I have removed stations that don't stream in OggPCM or FLAC, the truly lossless formats.
But then again, care has to be taken even when judging FLAC because some stations will use an EQ that cuts off high frequencies (happened on Radio 2.0 from Italy), others will just up-sample mp3.
For example, Punk Rockers Radio streams in FLAC, if you test the spectrum of it, it cuts off at 16KHz. Another station - Dance Wave Retro - streams at 14KHz. I'm sorry, but that's mp3 128kbps territory. The only explanation is that it's up-sampled from lower quality.
So if you'd like to check the quality of a playing stream, record a little bit of it in Audacity, export as WAV, then drag & drop into Spek. I would consider anything that registers below 20KHz to be an up-sample. However, it does happen that a single song or two are played in lower quality, then all of a sudden true lossless plays and so the station still counts as lossless, so we need to be careful with judgement.
🔹 Note on m3u8 "stations"... I know VLC and MPV play these, Foobar2000 needs a component, I do not know about MPlayer, you tell me.
🔹 Note on La Radio de La Mer, VLC doesn't like its expired certificate so it may not play, Foobar2000 has an option to suppress this.
🔹 Note on La SuperSonica, Foobar2000 doesn't like it.
If you think you can help me make corrections to this list, please let me know. Perhaps a station that I missed / misjudged needs to be included, or removed.
Sorted alphabetically by station name.
Enjoy,