{"id":37147,"date":"2019-05-08T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37147"},"modified":"2019-05-08T06:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:52:31","slug":"frontier-silicon-and-vtuner-aggregation-aggravation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/frontier-silicon-and-vtuner-aggregation-aggravation-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Silicon and vTuner aggregation aggravation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post<\/em> readers who’ve contacted me regarding the ongoing issues with WiFi radios that rely on the Frontier Silicon\/vTuner aggregator partnership. Two days ago, we mentioned this in a post about the service outage that affected Sangean and Como Audio WiFi radio devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turns out, the outage was a sign of deeper troubles that will affect any Internet radio device using the Frontier Silicon aggregator. I know that at least Sangean and Como Audio use the service, but I image there are many more, especially in some automobiles. Indeed, this might also affect devices which use the vTuner service.<\/p>\n

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At present, I am unable to use my Como Audio Solo or the Sangean WFR-28 WiFi radio. Both require re-saving all of the presets.<\/p>\n

Sangean posted a short message on their devices yesterday. Dennis Dura notes:<\/p>\n

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I have the Sangean WFR-28 and just came home to find a message on every preset saying “due to recent changes to our internet radio service, you will need to save your presents again”.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but many of the menus of the radio have changed.<\/p>\n

And most bizarre, in the Genre setting, they have eliminated “Jazz” as a category, and have added many I’ve never before or heard off. How does a company eliminate a category that is understood across the world?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Como Audio actually sent an email message regarding the lapse of service yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

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The Como Audio message described, in some detail, what had actually taken place. Much of Como’s message was based on the following message Frontier Silicon posted on their website:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why did the service change on 7th May 2019?<\/h1>\n

On 1st May 2019 we experienced a major outage of the Internet Radio & Podcast service used by our customers\u2019 Internet Radio devices. This was caused by issues with a third-party service provider that were outside our control.\u00a0 The service provider has also informed us that they are unable to ensure service provision beyond week commencing 6th May.\u00a0 Any such failure to provide the service would have caused the Internet Radio functionality on all our customers\u2019 devices to stop working unless we had taken this remedial action.<\/p>\n

As a result, we have made some changes to the way the service is delivered, and you may notice the following changes:<\/p>\n