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Low-bandwidth Net Radio

Posted by michael on from the bit-conservation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slate has an article about Internet radio stations that use the aacPlus codec from XM satellite radio instead of MP3. Some of the ones they link to sound pretty good even at 24 kbps."

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  1. Just a random thought here, by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Funny
    but maybe the other stations are choppy because there's actually a large number of people listening to them at the same time.

    But hey, what do I know?

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  2. Re:What about other codecs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Anyhow, I'm finally starting to get things coded in AAC, and now theres another subset?!
    Yeah, it's Murphy's Law. It states if you compress something enough you are a Nazi, oh wait...
  3. Re:Ogg streaming seems pretty good by JPriest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, you said ogg in a discussion about audio encoding on slashdot. I envy the size of your karma.

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