joeriz;252082 Wrote: > Thanks all. > > "They do exist, but they are rare as it costs the station a bundle to > send out higher bitrates." > > I'm curious...where's are the incremental costs incurred between, say, > 128k and 192k? > > Thanks!
It's 1.5 times more bandwidth x the number of people listening. Imagen if your electric bill went up 1.5 times from what you are currently paying now. A 50% cost increase to any business is going to hurt. And it *really* puts the hurt on a small struggling business/industry like Internet Radio that is already in dire financial trouble. 128k to 192k and the audio difference is negligible. Better, but not outstandingly so. Jumping from 128k to 320k, now THERE is a significant audio difference. BTW: Something to be careful of when limiting bitrate (searching or playing) is that you may be knocking out some great streams that sound very good. Try to keep an eye on the better encoded audio formats like Mp3Pro. An MP3Pro at 64k probably sounds equal to a standard MP3 at 128k. -- 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
