April fool or real?

[d.lake at surrey.ac.uk]

R3 has regularly been in 320kbit/s (for UK terminating streams) for quite some time and it is a massive and noticeable improvement on the usual 128kbit/s.

Even something as simple as audience applause sounds terrible at 128kbit/s with very strange ringing sounds.  320kbit/s makes a difference but this is also obviously not lossless.

I'm rather hoping that they keep this experiment going for the Proms - the acoustics of the RAH are difficult enough to deal with already without have to compress as well...

David

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From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of michael norman
Sent: 05 April 2017 19:56
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: April fool or real?

Who knows.  Interesting that they choose Firefox as a default browser.  
Be that as it may using FF here on Linux I can find this from R3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080fv2

as in Composer Of The Week Scott Joplin.

Which sounds pretty good to me.  I don't know how to tell the quality of streams, but judging by ear I'll guess FLAC.

My interest in R3 is limited to say the least, really only the Jazz stuff, my wider concern is digitalised music in the best possible quality.

If what I'm playing is the BBC's effort to do that, more power to them.

Mike




On 05/04/17 16:57, Jim Lesurf wrote:
> Is this an 'April Fool' joke or a real trial? :-)
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/radio-3-concert-sound/inside-stor
> y
>
> Jim
>


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