In article <FD75D69FA9324F3D95C6B6497D5E7EF3@vasonote>, Vangelis forthnet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon Apr 27 11:09:31 BST 2015, Jim web wrote:
> > I've been told that > Many thanks for looking into this, Jim; much appreciated! > > Apparently the general wish of the device makers was for this as a > > 'lowest common denominator' to maximise the number of 'legacy' > > devices that could accept the resulting shoutcasts. > Fair enough... I would've thought a SR of 48.0kHz was compatible with > most devices, but it appears it's not! I guess the device makers decided that 'more old devices can cope with 44.1k, so we'll go for quantity'. I assume the BBC people would have found it - if anything - easier *not* to change the rate since all else is 48k. As has been observed in the discussion on CD quality, etc, the sad reality is that most listeners don't really notice. I wish it were otherwise, but serious audio quality is very much a minority interest, alas. I can only be thankful that it remains something that the R3 people do care about. Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
