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Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-it-covers-vast-distances dept.

d00dman writes "CBC Radio, Canada's major national public broadcaster is now streaming in ogg/vorbis. Recently CBC had switched from realmedia streams to windows media streams for their radio broadcasts. After receiving a plethora of complaints, suggesting ogg/vorbis as an alternative, CBC has begun a test ogg stream of the toronto stations. They boast in their ogg FAQ that they're encoding with oddcast and streaming with icecast."

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  1. Cool! by isometrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds very forward-thinking. I will definitely be listening to this stream when I move there soon.

    1. Re:Cool! by dr_d_19 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sounds very forward-thinking. I will definitely be listening to this stream when I move there soon.

      Yeah, because the obvious audience for internet broadcast is a local listener, and you wouldn't be able to listen to it now. :)

    2. Re:Cool! by Gopal.V · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does that have something to do with the US elections or are just simply going there for the frost bite ? :)

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  2. typical Canadians by dankelley · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a bunch of standards-following wimps Canadians are. Join Kyoto protocol. Join international world court. Use the same ballot across the nation. (Count that ballot in hours.) Same-sex marriage. Soon-to-be-legal marijuana. Free health care. Soon to be free daycare. What a crew. Oh, and some Ogg Vorbis thingee now, too.

    1. Re:typical Canadians by gustgr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now we have to wait for free hookers... I mean... free sexcare.

    2. Re:typical Canadians by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 2, Funny

      AFAIK, that's just a technicality. "Soliciting" for prostitution is illegal, kind of like how smoking marijuana is legal, but posessing it is not.

      You can pay a woman to have sex with you, but you can't offer her money for sex, nor can she ask you for it... same rules as dating.

    3. Re:typical Canadians by michael+path · · Score: 2, Funny

      They also just finished rewriting their constitution in OpenOffice, and are using GNUCash for the nation's budget.

  3. Re:ogg band wagon by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I think AOL tried something like that. A proxy intercepts the audio stream and gives your PC speaker beep commands. It's like, 5x faster!

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  4. Re:Simplest Ogg Streaming Clients for non-Unix Use by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows - Winamp
    MacOS 9 - upgrade
    Amiga - buy a new computer

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  5. Wow complaining works! by smartin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I complained to them the day they switched (as i always do when someone picks a proprietary M$ format) but i didn't expect anything would come of it.

    Does anyone know of a good ogg client for OS X?

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