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[quote author=”just passing thru”]Tim,
KAPY is in Port Angeles. I am going to start with a Traditional Country format. What are you going for work out there?
Guy[/quote]Guy, ATM, I’m looking for mostly anything. I’m in the IT field and that would be the first choice. I love radio and would snap voraciously at the chance to get back in the game..
Good luck with KAPY! When do you foresee launch?
Guy, I am looking to relocate to WA (my home state) from UT (pleh) hopefully this summer. Can you give up some info on the location of your new LPFM? I will most likely reside in the Olympia/Tacoma area, depending on what jobs are out there. Also what will your station’s format be?
Thanks!
Jesse, you said something that peaked my curiosity… I have tried a 96kbps MP3 stream and while sounding loads better then say 32kbps or 64kps, it has a lot of wavering like on guitar strums and then some artifacting, which I expect some… You mentioned about using 32,000 instead of 44,100 on lower bitrate streams and while I wouldn’t think 96kbps is a lower bitrate, would I see any more musical stability if I did use 32,000 vs.44,100? Or is the bitrate too high and I would be losing definition/clarity?
Thanks!
[quote author=”Diekgait”]Another hint for Intel Core2 and CoreI7 users:
DISABLE intel speedstep in the BIOS! I tried lot’s of things before I found out what was screwing up my sound after a couple of seconds all the time.
Dennis[/quote]
So…. that’s a big part of Intel’s power management and for laptops, almost necessary to keep any battery life…. No?Check your default Audio Device in Control Panel for sound playback. Make sure it’s Pipeline. That can change depending on what you have installed/uninstalled.
I think primo would be winxp, ram is here nor there, CPU intel dual core, audio cards i think most recommended here are the Marian Trace8 or Alpha and the ESI Juli@. Just from my trolling here.
If you go to Options, then Advanced… You’ll see this screen… Then that note will pop up telling you about how bad it is it use it… but I would guess in an ipod it wouldn’t be such a big deal. (this is ver 1.2.5)
Good luck.
So, the question is… Should I stream at 48000? If most of the world’s consumer-level soundcards are kickin at 48000 anyway, does it make sense or since the "industry standard" is 44100, should I keep it there? Perhaps there are apps or hardware that can’t playback a 48000 stream…
There is a feature in MP3GAIN called Maximize or something that does more "gain riding". Purists would never use it as it changes the song. But it’s a little more aggressive.
So to answer my own question… If I leave edcast’s setting to 44100…
Player Out to Pipeline (44100)
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Breakaway Pipeline In (44100)
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Breakaway Out Audigy (44100)
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Edcast In Audigy (44100)
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Edcast Out Encoder (44100)
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Encoder Out Shoutcast (44100)This looks cleaner as there are less conversions in the chain. If the source material was never 48000, I guess the earlier theory is that breakaway is being nice to the audigy by feeding it audio at it’s native speed and handling that conversion internally. But it would have to be converted back, eventually, as my stream runs at 44100. This is JesseG’s method, btw.
To add another element to this for streaming…. If I leave defaults as is in 44100 out 48000 (changing both to 2 channels)… would I also set the edcast cfg file’s LiveInSampleRate setting to 48000 as well??
This setting would look like this:
Music from player @ 44100 (that’s what they are encoded at)
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Breakaway In Pipeline @44100
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Breakaway Out to sb audigy @ 48000
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Edcast In from sb audigy @48000
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Edcast to encoder @48000
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Encoder to shoutcast @44100This seems to have 2 conversions one in ba and one in the encoder in edcast. I guess my question is twofold… Is this above diagram correct? Also, how do you keep the best quality and least conversions/most efficient transfer of clean audio?
I could change the encoder in edcast to send out at 48000, but i may loose some compatibility.
Help me here music whizzes… (I know JesseG has his own opinions, which I greatly respect and value. I’m looking for more opinions here)
Thanks!
