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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. It's nice to see..... by tx_kanuck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That a publicly funded organization is actually trying to cut costs. Too bad it doesn't happen more often.

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    1. Re:It's nice to see..... by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Since the Government is always cutting spending on the CBC, I don't find it surprising at all. Their people seem to be generally intelligent and pretty good at working with what they have. Their on-air personalities are awesome too.

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