BBC Ceases To Use MP3...

Christopher Woods christopher at custommade.org.uk
Tue Feb 10 12:02:46 PST 2015


If you can point me to some examples, that'd be useful.

Chris

On 2015-02-10 17:32, C E Macfarlane wrote:
> Yes this switch over occurred a few weeks back for Nations 
> programming.
>
> I've no objection per se, but unfortunately the switch over has been
> accompanied by a huge increase in burbling and even breaks in the 
> recorded
> sound.  Whether that's because m4a encoding takes more system 
> resources and
> the system can't keep pace, or some other fault, I don't know enough 
> to
> tell.  All that I (burble) really know is (burble) that (break) Radio 
> Nan
> Gaidheal (burble) keeps destroying (break) the music with incessant 
> (burble)
> glitches, and it's (burble) driving me mad.
>
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>>     ... well - at least for the Radio Lancashire folk prog. 'The 
>> Drift.'
>>     This used to download in MP3 format along with hundreds of #'s. 
>> Now it
>>     appears to be in M4A - the Beeb's usual format for audios. Just 
>> an
>>     observation. CJB.
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