First let me say that it's so cool that both of our illustrious IDM
streaming audio DJs responded so quickly to this thread.
Lance wrote:
quoted 7 lines Inaudible is broadcast & archieved in mp3 format
> Inaudible is broadcast & archieved in mp3 format
> which is probably as good as you can get for
> streaming audio.
>
> Broadcast quality better than that and the
> artists/labels that we play may have issues with
> us. : )
I'm not surprised at an artist/label objecting to your providing their
content as full-quality MP3 files, but there are ways around that. First,
streaming-only media formats such as Real Audio can make it impossible for
the consumer to download the file and redistribute it. Secondly, I would
imagine that since you are making an extended DJ mix (with
overlapping/beatmatched tracks) that even if someone did download the whole
thing they could still not cleanly extract a whole song from the file
anyway, thus frustrating piracy.
That said, Inaudible's mixes are great and it's really cool that you archive
them, but the MP3 compression rate you use for the broadcasts is very
extreme. Again, I'd rather see a small number of high-quality mixes than a
larger number of low-quality mixes.
Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix wrote:
quoted 10 lines Hi, Chris. I agree totally with what you are saying,
> Hi, Chris. I agree totally with what you are saying,
> and with Cognition and Andrew Duke's In The Mix
> am trying to provide high quality sound quality wherever
> possible. Recently (well, a few months ago), Andrew Duke's
> In The Mix went from being offered simply at one bandwidth
> (28kps) to that *and* high so that those with higher connections,
> ISDN, T1s etc could experience the show more as I intend
> it (ie how it sounds here in the studio before it gets compressed
> to RealAudio and Windows Media Player files) and, i'm happy
> to say, it seems to have gone over very well.
This is cool! As a T1 user during the daytime at work, as I'm sure many
other listmembers are, the lowest common denominator is sometimes a little
lower than I would like (in Quake I am what is known as a Low Ping Bastard).
For us spoiled brats, it's nice to have a higher end option. Now about
jacking it up above 80kbps...
-Cf
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