Re: [ARSCLIST] Community Radio

[Russ Hamm <rhamm@xxxxxx>]

Tom -

Yep, you are right about the "digi-swish" - (funny!). I usually listen on 
my car radio, also imperfect sound quality but much better. I am listening 
to the stream right now, not too loud, from tiny computer speakers across 
my office, and I am digging it. I guess I'm not that fussy. I've even been 
stopped in my tracks by something I heard as background music in a store. A 
couple of random comments to this thread so far: Streaming media is still a 
work in progress - think back just a couple of years. Podcasting is hot and 
getting hotter. It's the "long tail" of mass sound-casting. (Thanks for the 
interesting reference to that article.) Don't be distracted by the "p" word 
-- and not all Mp3 files are created equal. Something equivalent to 
"community radio" could be created as a distributed podcast model, ie. 
several people working collaboratively in geographically separate locations 
with a common vision. And finally, in terms of audio quality, please 
continue to keep alive the high standards of sound reproduction, especially 
because young people may forget or never even experience it. But where it's 
not feasible, we will continue to just run the feed through the best filter 
available - the human brain.

Russ


At 02:54 PM 7/12/2006, Tom Fine wrote:
> Unfortunately, even its "higher quality" webcast is full of digi-swish and 
> hiss. Unlistenable to my ears. I just can't do digital noise and 
> distortion. It's like hands scraping on the blackboard to me. Others don't 
> seem to mind it as much.

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