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I believe you also have to download a package of the encoders as MP3 and a couple others are built-in, but HE-AAC and some others are not, if I recall.
I don’t think there’s an output gain/volume adjustment. When I’ve asked Jesse and Leif about it in the past, they swore that it is already set perfectly and there’s no user-facing adjustment for that. That has been many years since we’ve discussed this though, so I can’t be sure.
The HE-AAC codec will select V1 or V2 automatically based on chosen bitrate. I believe if it’s 48 kb/s and above, it uses V1. Below uses V2, which enables the “enhanced stereo” which I forget the name.
I quite enjoy Rustonium. I tweak most of the settings to mellow/balance it out. But as a starting point for me, it’s been great. My station plays new country and back to the 90’s. It’s aggressive, but the amazing-ness of BreakawayOne makes it sound so great! You can listen to my station at https://bit.ly/listen2us. I’ve used several presets over the years, including reference, the Leif one (i can’t recall the name) and Jesse’s Modern one. But I always came back to Rustonium. My main adjustment is to pull down the Final Drive to -2.5, which way calmed the preset down. I believe it was intended for FM, not streaming, per se.
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Hi Timmy. Nothing immediately springs to mind. Are you saying that the MP3s are clean outside of BA1? In another forum I Admin on, there are some recent comments about brand new Lenovo i7s inserting glitches in otherwise clean MP3 files, so maybe it's a Windows thing?
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Milky, my source audio files are 99% flac so what I’m describing are my streams. I have a 128kbps mp3 stream and a 64 kbps aac+ stream. I stream through baOne. My mp3 stream has audible glitches while my aac+ stream is clean.Yes, I'm using pipelines. From my playout system (Station Playlist) to Pipeline 1 into BreakawayOne. I am not sure why remote desktop would have anything to do with audio, unless it was "stealing" the audio from your radioDJ and blocking it from BaOne… I think you can disable all audio from Remote Desktop. Or, if you're using something other than Kernel Streaming in your input/output, that could be an issue. Selecting Kernel Streaming is also a way to lock down the audio channels from other things using them.
I've been using it on Windows 2016 since a few years ago. No issues. Solid as a rock. I think you just need to enable the windows audio services as they are not enabled by default. https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/enable-audio-on-windows-server-2016/
2004 is still beta though, right?? Let's not panic before the final version is actually released… Right?
George,
My Station Playlist simply produces a plain text file with only this info:
Artist – Title – Album
I chose File or URL for Metadata Source in the Overview tab of the Stream section. I then fill out the full path of that file. BaOne magically senses the file change, reads the file, then pushes it to my server. Just have to be sure you're pointing BaOne to the fully correct file path. Mine is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\StationPlaylist\HTMLPlaylist\playingnow.txt
For example.
As far as your automation/playout system, I can only really speak of Station Playlist. I've not used any others. I would assume that most have the option to produce text files for Now Playing info. Just a matter of figuring it out.
Hope that helps.
