320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

Tom madtom1999 at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 2 08:10:29 PST 2016


On 01/01/16 23:01, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> I would add a plus to having 320k aac available as a norm with GIP radio
> downloads.
>
> It's brilliant that the BBC are finally seeing sense after years of
> trying to foist DAB onto us with its inferior bitrates.
>
>
> Alan
>
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As far as I know no-one has ever been able to tell the difference 
between CD and DAB let alone higher bitrates in double-blind testing.
DAB is not in any sense inferior bitrate-wise though otherwise its a 
complete con.
Tom



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