Currently scheduled for next month, we'll switch to encoding national radio
(live, and on-demand) straight from the transmission chain within
Broadcasting House (using the same processing as the digital satellite feed,
which is the best-suited for the internet environment). You'll notice a slew
of changes to our audio online over the next few months - and, we hope, a
set of new, developer-friendly, formats. (I can reveal that our choices of
audio codec does not include Ogg Vorbis. Yes, I was the man who installed it
at another national station. No, it is not good value for money to attempt
the same at the BBC.)
Ooo ooo oo oo oo oo oo oo, FLAC streaming? Lossless WMA? :D (please say you
"liked what KEXP was doing and decided to derive from their innovative
approach towards online streaming by offering CD-quality feeds via the web",
that'd be brilliant!)... Failing that, MP4-AAC? iPlayer interface
integration?
New things are shiny and shiny is good, so whatever it is it'll be fun to
play around with.
Streaming MP3 would be a nice consolation prize if all of this is still a
little too far off ;) ... And out of curiosity, do you know if anything is
ever going to come from the Multicast trials (or has that been thrown into
the long grass at the moment given the continued precious little support
aside from the handful of interested ISPs?)
