It's so nice to see so many places to listen to curated/DJ-ed webcasts of
mixes of IDM, but one thing always bugs me and prevents me from ever really
participating as a listener: the compression is always so crappy! Are there
any IDMish internet radio "stations" webcasting in anything close to a
high-quality compression format?
I find it very hard to listen to most streaming audio when the best quality
I can find is 32 kbps Real Audio or MP3. It's especially frustrating with
IDMish stuff (as opposed to rawk or spoken word junk), much of which is
constructed using extreme bass and treble sounds, pure waveform sounds,
subtle envelope effects, and other sound techniques which get mangled or
eliminated in most high-compression schemes. To listen to, say, Panasonic in
anything less than highest quality compression is like listening to hip hop
on a minicasette player.
I realize that there are bandwidth issues and storage space issues, and
forgive me if I'm critiquing what is really only the shortcomings of some
hosting providers, but things are changing every day: Those of you who run
and promote such webcasts, like Andrew Duke or Lance, why not lead the way
with full-quality webcasting today? You can offer it in addition to your
regular low-bandwith offerings so that low-bandwith listeners can still
pitch in. I'd rather have one high-quality mix available per month than
several nigh-unintelligible low quality ones. Any thoughts on this?
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