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Re: [ARSCLIST] Community Radio
I listen to a lot of internet radio.Most of which is talk,either from http://www.gcnlive.com/ ,or from Air America,and even there;there is a great deal of difference,in sound quality,from one program to the next,even from the same network.I have only a rudimentary knowledge of this stuff,but a lot of the sound quality of the stream you get,depends on the quality of the equipment at the source studio.As for music,WFMU is perhaps the best station I have heard,for both content,and quality of stream/archives/webcasts.BTW,thanks for the great links.I am looking at doing internet radio myself,when I get a little more money,perhaps in 2007.
Roger Kulp
m <rhamm@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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