Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

[Jim web]

In article <D8CB30C6888F4F3DB114EA024F7DAD85 at vasonote>, Vangelis
forthnet
<northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:

[snip]

> As an interim solution, the AF team replaced the
> killed live streams with ShoutcastMP3 ones. These, again, target
> Internet Devices, but you can listen to them in the software player of
> your choice that supports Shoutcast (listening to R1 at the moment:
> http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio1_mf_q on WinAmp).
>  These live ShoutcastMP3 streams have a SR of just 44.1kHz, so
> downsampling takes place along the line - I can't tell if it's done
> in-house at the BBC prior to sending them to the Limecast server or
> whether the server itself is configured to downsample on-the-fly (?). Do
> you (or your contacts) happen to know why this downsampling is
> needed/performed?

Afraid I don't know at present. But I'll inquire and see what I can find
out.

[snip]

Jim

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