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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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