Icecast - Jul 2003 - Virgin Radio Classic Rock now in Ogg too

Firstly, please excuse the crosspost to both the icecast and vorbis lists,
and the slightly commercial nature of this post.

Virgin Radio Classic Rock, which is a sister station to Virgin Radio, is now
also available in streaming Ogg Vorbis. We also have 'now playing'
information working on both services.

Links and more information at
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/listen/ogg.html

The 96kbps Virgin Radio Classic Rock stream appears to sound better than the
96kbps Virgin Radio stream. We're looking into why; it will probably be
something to do with the audio processing before it gets to the encoder.

Thanks to all those who have helped us so far in getting our Ogg streams up
and running, especially Karl Heyes for his help with the YP directory
listings. We've had some really positive feedback; it's much
appreciated.

David

David Jones
Head of IT, Virgin Radio
t +44 20 7432 3346 f +44 20 7432 3456
www.smg.plc.uk * www.virginradio.co.uk

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David Jones wrote:
> The 96kbps Virgin Radio Classic Rock stream appears to sound better than
the
> 96kbps Virgin Radio stream. We're looking into why; it will probably be
> something to do with the audio processing before it gets to the encoder.
I think VR is mono again whereas VC is stereo.  VR is averaging around
86kb/s and VC is around 106.

If you want to average around 96 (stereo) then you will have to lower the
quality setting.  2.8 is too high.

Regards,

Ross Levis
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ross Levis wrote:
> I think VR is mono again whereas VC is stereo.  VR is averaging around
> 86kb/s and VC is around 106.
Just to confirm that my observations match this.  The stream coming out of
VR is a stereo stream, but it's encoding a mono signal which keeps the
bitrate down.
> If you want to average around 96 (stereo) then you will have to lower the
> quality setting.  2.8 is too high.
Definitely.  It's interesting to watch the bitrate go up and down with
the music on VC.  Listening to Leny Kravitz, the bitrate was up over 100
kbps for
the whole song, probably due to the wide panning used in the song.  The
next track spent most of its time below 96.

BTW: The 'now playing' info on VC seems a bit funky.  I listened for
about
20 minutes before we got an update.  Seems to be happening regularly now
though (it's now 01:17 GMT).

The sound is, of course, excellent.

Geoff.

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