joeriz;251831 Wrote: > I'm wondering if there are ANY internet radio stations out there that > broadcast above 128k. I've been loving internet radio since getting my > Squeezeboxes but 128k is just borderline acceptable in terms of sound > quality. I'd be willing to pay for a subscription to a service that > transmits at higher bitrates but from what I've read, there don't seem > to be any (perhaps I'm missing something). > > Any idea why this is? Is there no real demand for quality or is this a > technology/bandwidth issue? > > Thanks, > Joe
They do exist, but they are rare as it costs the station a bundle to send out higher bitrates. I'd suggest two search methods: 1. Search through SqueezeNetwork's online GUI "browse" function, particularly ShoutCast and Live365. The resulting search displays the bit rate. Then just add the selected stations to your favorites. The draw back is that the results are not sorted by bitrate, so you will have to do a lot of scrolling. 2. Go directly to the providers web site like Shoutcast.com or Live365.com and you can limit the searches by minimum (higher) bitrates. The draw back here is you now must cut & paste the correct url feed into your favorites. Both are doable and not overly complicated. Just takes some poking around. I can warn you though that many (if not all) ShoutCast streams saved to your favorites will not play from favorites after a short while. It's some bug in the interface between ShoutCast & SqueezeNetwork. I don't particularly care for Live365 so I don't know if saving Live365 streams to favorites is an issue or not. -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41419 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
