Majority Internet Radios

[jim.gm4dhj]

anybody else having problems with majority internet radios recently not connecting and getting kicked off ?

[jim.gm4dhj]

nobody own a Majority then?.....

[charles]

all my Majority items are Sound Bars.

[Michael Chare]

Well not one that can receive internet radio. Mine just receives FM and DAB.

[Tim Streater]

All of mine are chocolate bars. Now, what was your point again?

[Brian Gaff]

Never heard of them. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

If I were the poster I'd get an Amazon Echo dot and use the headphone out to go into his old valve amp. Sounds pretty good depending on the station. Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

No idea what on earth is being discussed here at all.

[charles]

They are a Cambridge based UK company, although, like everybody else, their products are made in China.

Their website states: Founded by two friends from Cambridge in 2012, Majority has gone on to become an Amazon best-selling brand with a device in over three million homes across the globe. From the very beginning, founders, Eddie Latham, and PJ Scott's focus has been to use ground-breaking technology to deliver quality consumer electronics at an affordable price.

"Our goal has always been inclusivity" Latham and Scott use their years of know-how to continue to build a brand that designs products for a variety of budgets.

[charles]

I have a possible idea. A few weeks ago, the BBC changed the formatbof its internet radio services. I had problems with my Brennan device, but with help from that company's help pages, I now have BBC Radios 3 & 4 back on my presets.

Could this be affecting Jim? His fault description isn't very good.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Indeed. Now you need special tech to listen to the BBC. You cant just get to it via a simple URL.

So I don't bother with it at all.

[Paul]

Jim is having trouble with one of these (and its Internet Radio function).

That company also makes audio equipment, in the form of Sound Bars.

The website for that company (Majority) is so poorly coded, it's almost impossible to get any information out of it. The staff may have "graduated" at many things, but web design wasn't one of them.

Paul

[charles]

no special tech that I came across, just looked somewhere else

Your loss

[Alan J. Wylie]

I'm currently listening to Radio 3 using Audacious via a URL VLC works, too:

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" However the Web Browsers I've tried (Firefox and Chrome) don't seem to support that sort of streaming.

[Clive Arthur]

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All your base are belong to us.

[charles]

Sorry, but that makes no sense to me

[The Natural Philosopher]

My gain. I haven't found anything of interest on it for years.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Makes perfect sense to me. Perhaps you have spent too much time listening to the BBC...

[Theo]

They're mostly a box shipping and fulfillment specialist. In other words, they contact an ODM in China, tell them roughly what they want. ODM designs and builds the products, puts them in a container. Majority collects the container from the docks, does the UK warehousing and the trickery to get to the top of Amazon, collects the cash.

I doubt they have staff engineers, I suspect that's all contracted out.

Theo

[charles]

Probably - I used to work there.

Can you please translate into old fashioned (20th Century) English