Most Internet audio streams are low-bitrate MP3s, 128 kbps or less. There are no FLAC streams that I know of. FLACs are in the 1 Mbps range. This would be considered extremely wasteful for streaming audio. Most streaming video is less than that!
--- akwok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben Sandee Wrote: > > On 11/13/05, akwok <akwok.1ygrxz (AT) no-mx (DOT) > > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Would that degrade the sound quality though? And > also, will it show > > > what song is currently playing? > > > > > > > Could be that it would lower the sound quality of > the broadcaster > > (Oddcast > > or Shoutcast) were to re-encode the music data > (maybe to a lower > > bitrate). > > There may be configuration settings on *cast to > work around this. > > > > SlimServer should be able to interpret and display > the changing song > > metainfo from these streams. > > > > Ben > > Hmmm. I tried googling 'Shoutcast flac' and > 'Oddcast flac', but no > real good hits. Does anyone know if either will > broadcast in flac? > > > -- > akwok > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > akwok's Profile: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2298 > View this thread: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18158 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
