You might want to try making some comparisons between
AlienBBC/Softsqueeze on your PC vs. listening to the same stations
directly using WMP or Real or whatever you have. It may well be that
the poor quality is all you are going to get - your download bandwidth,
your ISP, and the BBCs upload are
Most of the internet radio channels that I have tried is around 128kb
and then it can't sound good...
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tomsi42
SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact, Kimber Kable 4TC and Timbre.
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The BBC Real Audio quality is not too good. However, I am constantly
amazed how good Shoutcast stations bradcasting at 128k sound.
MC
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ModelCitizen
Now what?
Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250
Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying
The data rate of the BBC RealAudio streams is typically around 40kbps
except for Worldservice which is about 16kbps.
I think the BBC still wants to support Narrowband (dialup) users and
also they have a very large number of users so providing high speed
worldwide would require significant
128KBit can sound reasonable, although not fantastic. AlienBBC is
clearly way below this, whether played on the SB3 or on my PC via WMP
/real player.
To be honest I can't see what bitrate AlienBBC is working at - is there
a way of telling on the SB3?
is there a way of filtering out all the
I gather the WMA link for BBC3 is
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wm_asx/aod/radio3.asx. But even this is
only 48kbit, and I am not sure how to set up a web address such as this
to play out of SB3. Or are you suggesting that there is a better quality
link?
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rbl
In terms of the BBC - I think the internet services were set up as a
replacement for SW and before DAB for users where FM was poor and only
received LW/MW.
As a side issues - the encodings of the Listen Again programs are
different to the live streams.
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bpa
DAB in the UK will always be worse than FM as the technology adopted is
the worst in the world. Have a look at this
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/worldwide_dab.htm
Simon
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Simon;145947 Wrote:
DAB in the UK will always be worse than FM
And I would strongly recommend that anyone who likes radio should get
an FM tuner. A NAD 402 costs just £20 on ebay; my Rotel 990 cost just
£120. A live Radio 3 broadcast will sound better than any CD, IMHO (I
can't speak for
