From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:58 AM
On Tue Aug 15 12:40:54 BST 2017, I wrote:
were limited to dafmed, hafmed and hlsaacmed
and a bit rate of 96kbit/s.
...
Then at some point WSR got the "Audio Factory" treament,
to be more on a par with the rest of the BBC
18 August 2017 12:55
>> Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: World Service podcast bit rates
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>> Not everybody perceives and comprehends speech the same way; it is
>> known that people on the autistic spectrum have difficulties separat
gt; Sent: 18 August 2017 12:55
> Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: World Service podcast bit rates
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> Not everybody perceives and comprehends speech the same way; it is
> known that people on the autistic spectrum have difficulties separating
> speech from backgr
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 05:31:23PM +0100, Simon Morgan wrote:
> Oh for get_iplayer when I was sailing around the Indian Ocean in the early
> '60s. Shortwave radio was the only option whether for speech or even "music".
> I still mourn the day the World Service dropped its ident tune which was
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From: Budge Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:03
Hi Richard,
This is way OT so forgive top post but you mentioned players and I had some
problems with Linn devices a while back which was mentioned again recently
and has still not to my knowledge been fixed.
My device of choice now is a
Oh for get_iplayer when I was sailing around the Indian Ocean in the early
'60s. Shortwave radio was the only option whether for speech or even
"music". I still mourn the day the World Service dropped its ident tune
which was essential to tune into the news broadcasts. I started off with a
"steam
Hi Richard,
This is way OT so forgive top post but you mentioned players and I had
some problems with Linn devices a while back which was mentioned again
recently and has still not to my knowledge been fixed.
My device of choice now is a Raspberry Pi with an IQaudIO DAC on top.
Software is
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 02:58
Thanks Vangelis for your helpful comments and explanations.
Since 95% of BBC WS Radio content is "talk-radio",
I find 96kbps to be more than adequate for the task...
I don't disagree. We have survived with much lower bandwidths
On Tue Aug 15 12:40:54 BST 2017, RS wrote:
were limited to dafmed, hafmed and hlsaacmed
and a bit rate of 96kbit/s.
As a general rule, BBC World Service Radio does not impose
any form of geo-filtering; in fact, for all "broadcast versions" of
its content (not podcast vPIDs), i.e. the ones
This is off topic so if you are going to be offended please stop reading.
Vangelis mentioned at the weekend that the World Service is very popular
overseas. I don't doubt it. It seems to have a very wide range of very
informative programmes. My problem is being selective. At one time I
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