Hi Roger At your leisure, absolutely no pressure. Can you give me an example of your genre? Are we talking technology, or other independent subject matter? Either way is totally fine. Regarding the quality, There is, and probably always will be, a limit above which we cannot go due to bandwidth constraints. We also need to be aware of the constraints facing the listener. But, as broadband gets better and better for the consumer, as the available throughput becomes greater and greater, so the Internet broadcasting quality gets better in parallel. Opinion seems to be divided regarding the best way to broadcast. For example, the format we currently use is MP3 which reflects the audio format of the broadcast and not the recorded material. As far as the recorded material goes, you can use whatever you like, as long as you hit the DSP doing the encoding with the proper format and sample rate. The Shoutcast directory which is hosted by AOL still uses MP3 and many stations are liste d on that directory. However, other hoisters of streaming services recommend that you broadcast in AAC format and still claim to be able to have stations listed in the Shoutcast directory. So, I need to look into the realities of that. My point, however, is that we use FLAC as our chosen file format and that gives us about as close to CD quality as you're going to get within a stereo-dimensional system. If, on the other hand, the streaming was AAC then the potential is greater for sharper quality. Indeed, we would have preferred to broadcast our stream in AAC format but, unfortunately, the stream hosting service we use does not support AAC in their cloud, nor do our players, (especially our FLASH Player) support the AAC format. Therefore, having weighed up the pro's and conns, we opted to go MP3 and use the technologies which are not available on all services.
Gordon On 31 Jan 2013, at 13:24, Roger Firman <[email protected]> wrote: Many thanks indeed. I guess it could be argued that quality internet radio might need to be of even higher recording quality that more traditional broadcasting but as you say, so many advances have been made during the last few years. If all goes quiet for a bit it won't mean I'm not working on something. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
