mherger wrote: > > > TBH: I didn't follow the issue from the beginning. I've seen that > somebody posted about Shoutcast streams, which would suit our needs > better. What's the problem with them? > > -- > > Michael
The shoutcast streams are 128 MP3 streams for the international market. They are not the same as the national feeds. That means they are poorer quality than the previous feeds and don't contain certain programs where there are rights issues which would mainly be sports programs on BBC 5 live and BBC 5 live Sports Extra). 1 other issue with the MP3 streams is that they seem to have a scheduled end date in 2 or so years time so they are not a long term solution. Regarding the actual streams there are 2 separate issues here. The previous streams were compatible and handled by the squeezebox players so were available both through LMS and MSB... While we know the new feeds may not be suitable to be transformed by the squeezebox players themselves surely one of the real advantages of the LMS system is that it can process the feeds and transform into squeezebox playable Flac files. As such those of us in the UK would really like access to the new AAC feeds even though we know we may lose the ability to access them through MSB.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
