BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....

[Christopher Woods]

Very curious... I've not noticed that myself, at least since (and this is a 
fair while ago) I stopped downloading things with a very old version which 
was stalling out mid download and causing a break in the file which was 
audible on playback. I've not actually used GiP for the past five or six 
months. (!)

For a while, the audio has been concurrently encoded for multiple formats 
using cloud computing so there's no shortage of physical power available. 
However that's not to say that there is a bug somewhere causing problems.

If anyone could provide PIDs, if they come across a programme with 
glitching (like the RNG episode), that'd be incredibly useful.

(I've been unscientifically listening to a handful of things today and I'm 
beginning to think there's a separate, low level problem with some or all 
of the Audio Factory live streams which may - or may not - also be audible 
in the on-demand versions, but I need to do lots more sleuthing to ensure 
it's not just my brain tricking me)

Thanks
Chris


On 17 February 2015 20:14:20 roadcone <roadcone at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 17/02/15 19:15, Christopher Woods wrote:
> > Has anyone else observed any glitchy/skippy/odd on-demand files since my
> > last reply to the thread? Trying to get a large enough sample set, I
> > can't possibly listen to everything... ;-)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> For many months, probably since the middle of last year, I have noticed
> this effect on random programs downloaded in UK as aacstd files. Some
> way in, perhaps 15/20 minutes, the sound sounds as though the sound has
> been momentarily interrupted. The interruptions get longer and increase
> in frequency then reduce. The whole thing lasts less than a minute and I
> don't recall two such instances in one program.
>
> Problem is ... I don't listen to programs in order so I am not sure
> whether it was a problem which has now ended or whether it is still
> happening.
>
> Clive
>
>
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