OT Why does streamed internet radio sound crap ?

and, can it be fixed or improved by the client.

Is the quality dependant on the "broadcasters" available bitrate, like digi
radio, or other stuff ?

It sounds really compressed, and I wished it wasn't.

I like to listen to http://www.luckysevenradio.com/

->>Classic Rock


whilst cooking/washing up/staring at the wall, whatever, and after playing some
cd's on my PC (with a mid fi amp and speakers and EMU soundcard) the quality of
internet radio is, shit, basically.

Help.

 

Bandwidth's expensive, relatively speaking, so a broadcaster needs a
fair amount of advertising to pay for it - except, at least for small
broadcasters, there simply aren't that many listeners to attract
advertisers.

It's a Catch 22 situation.

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Buy a radio, or get cable. Sounds good on those

 

Yep, I was trying to be a cheapskate..


Thanks.

 

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BBC radio always seems ok online.

 

They're very careful with the codecs, and encode at multiple bitrates so
you'll get whatever fits your connection speed best. They're also awash
with bandwidth in the UK, with some of the most comprehensive peering
around, so able to hand off far more traffic than your average Joe Pikey
ISP.

But yeah, it's down to bitrates, compression and transcoding - the BBC,
for example, use (or used, I've not been there for a year or so now) DAB
or DSAT feeds for audio and then transcode(d) into Real/WMA, so you had
a raw feed being compressed, encoded, transmitted, transcoded,
compressed and streamed. The fact that it's listenable at all is
astonishing.

Not much the client can do about it, really. Just go for the highest
bitrate you can and pray that the bods doing the encoding/transcoding
know what they're up to.