Best bitrate for online streaming (aka internet radio). |
Best bitrate for online streaming (aka internet radio). |
May 30 2012, 19:10
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Group: Members Posts: 727 Joined: 23-November 04 Member No.: 18295 |
I know that for most of us, as storage capacities have increased we've generally become less concerned about being economic with the bit rates of our encoded music formats. One area however where I"m still kinda interested in bit rate economy is when listening to internet streamed music such as "internet radio". The reason is simple, I've only got 10GB/month downloads and I'd prefer to not use more than about 30% of this for online listening, particularly as it's something that I'm often just using as "background" music.
With that said, what bit-rates to others here find suitable for online radio purposes. Personally I seem to find 64 kbps HE-AAC to be roughly equivalent to FM radio, though that's only a subjective judgement. Just wondering if anyone knew of any tests to establish what codec/bitrates are roughly equivalent FM radio for typical music listening purposes? Thanks. |
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May 31 2012, 20:19
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Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: 9-May 10 Member No.: 80499 |
Many available formats and bitrates at Absolute Radio stations, I've selected two of them which offer a wide variety of styles from funk to metal:
http://absolute80s.com/listen/other/ http://absoluteclassicrock.co.uk/listen/other/ They are also using MP3@192 kbps and HE-AAC@64 kbps if you register to the site... or use Google |
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Jun 11 2012, 15:49
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Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 24-September 04 From: London Member No.: 17277 |
Many available formats and bitrates at Absolute Radio stations, I've selected two of them which offer a wide variety of styles from funk to metal: http://absolute80s.com/listen/other/ http://absoluteclassicrock.co.uk/listen/other/ They are also using MP3@192 kbps and HE-AAC@64 kbps if you register to the site... or use Google CODE Windows Media Player 20k: Windows Media Player 132k: AAC+ 48k: MP3 32k: MP3 128k: Quicktime 32k: Ogg Vorbis 32k: Ogg Vorbis ~160k: Ogg FLAC ~1Mb: Can someone rank these? Or should I assume that on the whole they are already in increasing order of quality, apart from the first one, not sure where that one fits. Also where is the info on MP3192, and AAC64, for absoluteradio? |
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Jun 12 2012, 17:11
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Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: 9-May 10 Member No.: 80499 |
Also where is the info on MP3192, and AAC64, for absoluteradio? http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/listen/on-other-devices.html Direct links: Absolute 80s HE-AAC 64kbps: http://aacplus-a8-64.as34763.net Absolute 80s MP3 192kbps: http://mp3-a8-192.as34763.net Absolute 80s Vorbis 160kbps: http://ogg2.as34763.net/a8160.ogg Absolute Classic Rock HE-AAC 64kbps: http://aacplus-ac-64.as34763.net Absolute Classic Rock MP3 192kbps: http://mp3-ac-192.as34763.net Absolute Classic Rock Vorbis 160kbps: http://ogg2.as34763.net/vc160.ogg |
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uart Best bitrate for online streaming (aka internet radio). May 30 2012, 19:10
DVDdoug I don't normaly listen to Internet radio, but.... May 30 2012, 20:00
uart QUOTE (DVDdoug @ May 30 2012, 12:00) It... May 30 2012, 20:38
uart QUOTE (DVDdoug @ May 30 2012, 12:00) I do... May 30 2012, 21:03
nagual http://www.977music.com/channels2/oldies/wmplayero... May 30 2012, 23:17
uart QUOTE (nagual @ May 30 2012, 14:17) http:... May 31 2012, 18:11
zerowalker Shouldn´t be, Same hardware should give the same s... May 30 2012, 23:21
LithosZA Depends on what bandwdith I have available:
192Kb... May 31 2012, 15:00
mixminus1 Years ago, the standard Nullsoft Shoutcast Winamp ... May 31 2012, 15:54
pdq QUOTE (mixminus1 @ May 31 2012, 10:54) Ye... May 31 2012, 16:49
nagual QUOTE (LithosZA @ May 31 2012, 16:00) Per... May 31 2012, 16:29
mixminus1 I suspect it was more like the developers didn... May 31 2012, 17:07
LithosZA Radio Paradise is my favourite station. A *very* w... May 31 2012, 19:22
uart QUOTE (LithosZA @ May 31 2012, 10:22) Rad... May 31 2012, 19:34
uart QUOTE (psycho @ Jun 7 2012, 07:29) Anothe... Jun 11 2012, 17:07
Stone Free QUOTE (uart @ Jun 11 2012, 17:07) QUOTE (... Jun 14 2012, 15:59
LithosZA QUOTE Could you comment on how you find the qualit... May 31 2012, 20:22
uart Here's another really nice one streaming 64kpb... Jun 1 2012, 18:15
henrypinks QUOTE (uart @ Jun 1 2012, 09:15) Here... Jun 6 2012, 21:19
IgorC Hopefully new codec Opus will hit 1.0 soon. A kin... Jun 1 2012, 18:43
uart QUOTE (IgorC @ Jun 1 2012, 09:43) Hopeful... Jun 1 2012, 18:55
IgorC Well, that 64 kbps test is already outdated. And O... Jun 1 2012, 19:09
uart A couple of issues after listening to online ... Jun 3 2012, 14:36
[JAZ] QUOTE (uart @ Jun 3 2012, 15:36) Most of ... Jun 3 2012, 18:18
uart QUOTE I have, in playback options, the settings +3... Jun 3 2012, 18:22
psycho Another good-sounding 64 kbps AAC radio stream: HA... Jun 7 2012, 16:29
uart I felt bad about so many subjective opinions in th... Jun 11 2012, 17:58
IgorC You can try Apple HE-AAC encoder. It's better ... Jun 11 2012, 19:01![]() ![]() |
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