April fool or real?

[Chris Woods]

The Taster description indicates the live stream is being simulcast as FLAC 
(probably Ogg encapsulated FLAC) and there's probably browser detection to 
pass the FLAC stream to a Firefox client. Seems only the latest Firefox 
build has the appropriate libraries bundled for native support (due to the 
prior agreement between Mozilla and Xiph, developers of Ogg, Vorbis, Theora 
etc).

On-demand will be the usual formats at usual quality levels.

Enjoy this while it lasts!


On 5 April 2017 20:04:38 <d.lake at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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