Naim Audio: New Internet Radio & Enhanced Streaming

8 October 2024

Whilst streaming opens up a world of music from streaming platforms and your own collection, sometimes you just want to put the radio on and let someone else choose.

Naim Audio has made this even easier with the launch of it’s own in-house internet radio solution, alongside it’s existing comprehensive internet radio options.

The update is available over the internet via the Focal & Naim App.

In collaboration with XPeri, Naim has brought the internet radio server in-house to be maintained internally, so no reliance on a third party as with the previous server. This will improve reliability and has opened up a host of improvements to the service, detailed below:

• A selection of over 45,000 stations worldwide
• Advanced metadata feeds for artist, track and album info on many stations
• Focus on high-quality audio streams with the use of HLS streams for optimum sound quality
• Improved station categorisation
• High-resolution station artwork
• Robust automated station scanning – all stations scanned frequently for the fast detection and resolution of issues
• Amazon AWS server providing worldwide coverage
• Extended lossless quality radio view
• Station podcasts (where available)

The Focal & Naim app will identify any favourites and presets that should be resaved to use the new server.

These updates improve both the internet radio server and overall streaming capabilities: TIDAL’s new 24-bit, 192 kHz streaming tier, TIDAL Max, is now available through both the Focal & Naim app and TIDAL Connect.

Detailed release notes per product:

5.2.0 – New Classic
New Features:
• Support for new Naim Internet Radio
• Support for TIDAL Max
• Support for Q-Play

Fixes and Improvements:
• NSS 333 now defaults to DIN Output after Factory Reset
• NSS 333 now has default external input names when paired to NAC 332
• NSS 333 could show volume changes for a NAC 332 input set to AV Bypass
• Disabling streaming input sources could fail to disable the input
• Restarting NSS 333 previously paired to NAC 332 could change to variable volume mode

3.10.0 – Uniti & streamers
New Features:
• Support for new Naim Internet Radio
• Support for TIDAL Max
• Support for Q-Play

Fixes and Improvements:
• In rare circumstances, an extended play queue playback session could cause a restart
• Improvements to general stability

4.4.0 – Mu-so 2nd Generation
New Features:
• Support for new Naim Internet Radio
• Support for TIDAL Max
• Support for Q-Play

Fixes and Improvements:
• In rare circumstances, an extended play queue playback session could cause a restart
• Improvements to general stability

Any questions, just give us a shout.

rob@adventuresinhifi.com or 01244 345576.