OK, I've organized this.
It's not possible to average 32kb/s stereo with Vorbis using VBR.
Quality -2 stereo proeduces roughly 32 to 38kb/s which is too high for
many modems.
I would have to use ABR, but last I tried that, it utilized too much CPU
for my 950Mhz PC, and oddcast doesn't appear to support that option
anymore.
I've tried AACPlus 32kb/s mono and there is very little difference from
stereo as far as sound quality goes.
Anyway, I've set up a mono AAC+ stream at 32kb/s for. It's strange that
Winamp reports it as stereo but the selection in the the shoutcast DSP
is mono.
Vorbis q -2 http://soulfm.stationplaylist.com/listen.m3u
AAC+ 32kb/s http://stream.gottabelieve.org:9000/soulfm.aac.m3u
I think the treble is much more natural with AAC.
Happy comparisons.
Ross.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Krivanek" <admin@radiotoolbox.com>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Icecast] AACPlus Shoutcast v1.90
You should do stereo and then do an aacplus stream at 32kbps along side,
we
can compare the two objectively.
Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: icecast-bounces@xiph.org [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] On
Behalf
Of Ross Levis
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:36 PM
To: icecast@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [Icecast] AACPlus Shoutcast v1.90
I should have provided a link to my low bitrate vorbis stream. It's a
mostly easy listening world music format:
http://soulfm.stationplaylist.com/listen.m3u
Regards,
Ross.