[SWLUG] digital radio & ogg audio player...

[Mark Summerfield]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:55:11 +0000
Matthew Moore <matt at matthewmoore.org.uk> wrote:
> On 29/01/11 19:58, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 17:30 +0000, Matthew Moore wrote:
> >>>> Do you really need the DAB?  I've looked into DAB before and it
> >>>> sounds
> >>> like
> >>>> you don't get much from it, i.e. it's a bit naff.
> >>>
> >>> a bit???
> >>>
> >>
> >> Like I said, only looked into it a bit, so don't claim to know
> >> much.  Is it really that bad then?  Please expand.
> >
> >
> > For starters it uses Mpeg 1 - Layer 2  (aka mp2) audio, which gives
> > worse quality per bitrate than mp3 does.
> <snip>
> >
> > Ofcom are considering introducing this on MW in the uk in 2012,
> > there have been various test transmission running for years (eg BBC
> > World Service), but you cant seem to buy a receiver in this country
> > yet.
> >
> 
> Thanks for all the explanations guys.  Good to know a bit more about
> it.

Yes, as usual, you know so much more about things than me!
 
> Mark,
> 
> One thing I did notice was that there were a fair few radios which do 
> DAB/Internet Radio and FLAC.  I know it's a massive pain, but FLAC
> seems better supported than OGG is.  So there might be milage in
> buying a device that does FLAC/DAB/Internet Radio and changing your
> OGGs to FLAC.

Didn't know that, okay, I'll look out for them and see how easy it is to
conver to re-rip in FLAC.

Thanks!

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