willdebeest wrote: 
> Is it just me, or does anyone else notice a difference in sound quality
> listening on the new sounds app vs the old iplayer app ? On BBC 6 live
> stream from sounds app, LMS reports 320 kbps CBR, 48kHz, BBC Sounds. On
> iplayer app, the stream technical info says 339 kbps VBR, AAC. To my
> ears, the iplayer app sounds better (of course, only live streams
> available now). I don’t know what compressed format sounds is using, but
> I know that in general AAC is an improvement on mp3 to my ears.

There is no difference. They are the exact same digital streams - just
the API to find them has changed. Even the digital stream in HLS and
DASH transports is the same.

The 320 vs 339 and VBR vs CBR are due to BBC's inconsistency in
documenting their streams. What value is shown depend a which parts of
the metadata - which is arbitrary.


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