Internet radio will not approach CD quality but many stations give you
choice of encoding.  The quality of a stream depends not just on speed
but also how it is encoded.

Supposedly a 48kbps/sec AACplus stream is as good as FM and 128kbit/sec
MP3 - so speed isn't everything but it helps. Usually higher speed
streams have an associated subscription.

Picks a station with multiple streams and do a comparison test of the
different formats say with a www.Sky.FM or a www.Somafm.com station.

You can get AACplus to work by having Slimserver transcode
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus) and there are a few
higher speed AACplus which say their 96kbit/s or 128Kbits stream is CD
quality.  The web site www.tuner2.com has


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