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   Gene - Interesting to hear about the streaming artifacts 

with just this one song.

Many, many years ago, in the early days of streaming, my 

station had a 96 kbps stream, and the song "The Legend Of 

Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band always used to 

give me headaches. Something about the hi-hat in this song 

really confused the encoder.  We never figured out why, and 

now that we have a 256 kbps stream, it's not much of an 

issue.  (Instead, we just run up the data plan bills of all 

our listeners!)

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crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 163	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 March 2012 at 8:28am
	Gene - Interesting to hear about the streaming artifacts with just this one song. Many, many years ago, in the early days of streaming, my station had a 96 kbps stream, and the song "The Legend Of Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band always used to give me headaches. Something about the hi-hat in this song really confused the encoder. We never figured out why, and now that we have a 256 kbps stream, it's not much of an issue. (Instead, we just run up the data plan bills of all our listeners!)

NightAire Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 20 February 2010 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17	Post Options Post Reply Quote NightAire Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 March 2012 at 4:21pm
	ROTFL!!! (Can they hold a connection at 256k? Wow... that's about a "dream-rate" for me, since double-blind tests show 99.999% of people can't tell the difference between 256k or linear... I'd love to even bump up to 112k, but I'm afraid of losing my office & mobile audience...) I play "...Legend..." at Halloween... I'll have to listen closely this year!! :)
	Gene Savage http://www.BlackLightRadio.com http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage Tulsa, Oklahoma USA

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 163	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 March 2012 at 5:59pm
	Yeah, we were using only about 6% of our capacity, so we thought we'd go overboard with sound quality. Haven't heard any complaints yet. (For a sample, you can peruse the recent archives at www.crapfromthepast.com. Since last summer, I've been ripping the live stream and editing out my show to form those mp3 files.)