The Low Quality Stream Is Now Running at 128 KBPS
Along with other updates I've made to our systems and stuff, I have also updated the Low Quality stream. We are now running at HIGHER QUALITY 128 KBPS. The High Quality stream is still currently down and we are trying to get it back up and working ASAP. Hopefully, if things work out, we can get it up to 256 or 320 KBPS so we'll be coming to you in CD QUALITY!
Also...there will be more updates to the systems being made, which means more dead air moments. I'm trying to conduct these during the Night Time hours as not to interfere with other peoples' shows or Peak Listening Hours.... and I have nothing better to do with my time. LOL!
Anyway, sorry to all the late night listeners who are experiencing the dead air.
Again, I'll try to get things up and running as quick as possible!
Thanks again!
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Hi DyMic... was this change
Hi DyMic... was this change discussed at a meeting at all? i don't remember that happening, but then again i had to leave early from the last one.
I don't see why streaming radio should be anything more than 128 or maybe 192. if people want hi-fi, they will listen to their FLAC files or CDs at home. we discussed this in the early days of the station and decided on 128 for the hi-quality stream and 32 for the low. i have set them back to those bitrates and both streams seem to be working now.
Community radio, IMHO, is not about a hi-fi listening experience, it's about getting unique information that's valuable to the community. if you're just playing music on your show then that's kind of questionable anyway. and if you're donig something unique, it's the content not the bitrate that's important.
then there's the point that mp3 compression is lossy, no matter waht bitrate you use. 320, 640, 10000 kbps will still never be the same as listening to an uncompressed audio stream, because mpeg encoding relies on perceptual models of hearing - in other words, engineers deciding what your ear does and DOES NOT "need" to hear, and then leaving out the latter. with mp3s after about 192 there is no perceptual difference.
also, perhaps most importantly we stream with the good generousity of the SF Bay Area Indymedia
collective, and their bandwidth isn't infinite. the higher the bitrate
we stream at, the less people are goign to be able to listen at the
same time. Also people with lower-speed internet connections will start having problems listening with higher bitrates.
anyway. if people really care about this a lot i guess we can talk about it at the next meeting.
best wishes,
E. Caliente, International Hombre of Mystery
At this last meeting on
At this last meeting on April 5th, we had discussed needing a tech subcommitee and I had offered my help in fixing the computers and trying to get the high stream working and whatnot, and Skeletor (who was leading the meeting along with OuterSpace) had announced that I would be lending my help, and nobody spoke up and opposed it. So I took it that I was doing maintenance.
As I've said in previous posts, I've done a lot of work freeing up space on the main drives of the computers to get them to go a little faster. I've also done Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware work (and I found a few different malwares) that keeps the computers healthy.
I thought giving our listeners better quality was a good thing. But if sound quality isn't an issue, than ok.
We'll discuss more of this at the meeting this Sunday.
Sorry if I did something wrong. I just was trying to do something for the better of the radio.