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Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis
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."
I listened to a Radiohead concert on the weekend through this stream. It sounded really good.
All the feedback was likely a direct result of me featuring it in my blog last month. Many people linked to my blog and kindly repeated my message.
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I had the URL wrong. In 1998 I was reading CBC news at newsworld.cbc.ca. Not bad considering what other news organizations, even technical iones, looked like at the time.
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You're telling me! I live in Canada (looks like you do too from your name), and this is a shock to me as well. Our government blows money and forgets where it went! The fact the CBC is starting to stream an open format is amazing. This is definately a good thing, although baffling somehow! I guess the CBC ran out of funding for it website already... they probably bought some Macromedia products or something like that.
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What is interesting is that they have said that they are dropping support for real media and quicktime.
Why?
Because of the technical complexity of running multiple streams and getting it all to work.
So its really quite interesting that they are adding a new streaming format at the same time.
Or is their plan to lose windows media player as well?
Michael
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Basically, you need .m3u (audio/x-mpegurl) mapped to a player that can handle Ogg, most often Winamp.
The main problem with Ogg as a "general public" format (as opposed to a "private collection" format) is that the general public still isn't ogg'ed -- but that matters less with a private collection.
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As a CBC Radio listener for the better part of 40 years I can tell you this is just another innovative step in the history of a great public institution. CBC is also known for its great honest and open minded coverage of news. This has been very apparent in the last couple of decades as comercial private media has been gobbled up by massive multinational corporations and given a sanitized, unified, and politically correct editorial viewpoint (according to the disposition of the owners and not always the accuracy of the facts). But possibly best of all the CBC works to inform, educate, motivate its listeners with open and honest coverage of world events... presented from multiple points of view.
If anyone would like to hear what the rest of the world is thinking and doing, catch the news and editorials on CBC... By the way, BBC radio does this too.
The CBC's website dates from even earlier than this.
And not only that, but from at least 1996 I used to download WAV files of CBC Radio 1's morning news from their website. Long before most organizations were even thinking about streaming audio, the CBC provided the morning news for download within minutes of its broadcast.
I remember mornings working away in the lab at University, sucking up bandwidth downloading those 10 - 15 minute WAV files so I could bring myself up-to-date with the world while working on assignments.
The CBC has long been on the forefront of journalism and the use of technology in journalism.
Yaz.
at my previous job we employed an ogg stream for some time..until some (i suspect) MS sponsored company offered to host windowsmedia streams for *free*
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They're also in favour of strict copyright and more protection for it. Just pay attention to the next copyright issue and compare it with CTV or another news outlet, and you're going to see the CBC will give it the lowest priority, which means they'll report days later after everybody else. Example, they ignored reporting on the commencement of the Copyright Board's hearing for raising blank media levy for 2004 and 2005, where people can participate and oppose it. It started on march 2003 and ended in may. You guessed it... The CBC reported the hearing on the day of the deadline...
How about the US paradise - where white conservatives can avoid the draft, drive drunk with impunity, exercise undue power over women's bodies, restrict minority rights, create global issues and ill-will, and leech off the people.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.