BBC streaming at 96KHz AAC.
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#1 BBC streaming at 96KHz AAC.
AAC is coming in via the various BBC streams on R2, R3 and R4 according to my Squeezebox Touch.
My Musical Fidelity M1 DAC says it is a 96KHz signal.
Quality seems good. Wonder if it will last or whether they will downgrade it again after the Proms.
My Musical Fidelity M1 DAC says it is a 96KHz signal.
Quality seems good. Wonder if it will last or whether they will downgrade it again after the Proms.
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Just via the internet radio option on the SB touch not via MySqueezebox.com.The Stratmangler wrote:How are you accessing the radio streams, Steve ?
The radio stream comes on and up comes the 96KHz light on the DAC.
So there is or the DAC thinks there is a 96KHz stream coming from the SBT.
The info screen for the stream only gives the filetype as AAC, there is no other information available.
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Did that and the 96KHz light still comes on.JackOfAll wrote:Steve,
Just for grins, go into the local SBS server settings and disable native AAC decoding, so instead of direct streaming (and decoding on the Touch), faad is used on the server to decode the stream. Does the 96k LED still light up on the DAC?
EDIT: Server Settings->Advanced->File Types and set AAC->AAC to be disabled.
Other streams (WMA etc) from stations other than the BBC show 44.1KHz light.
The BBC streams do sound better than they did a few weeks ago, so something's going on but as far as the 96KHz light being triggered.......
I suspect a bug in 7.6.1 and in its associated firmware
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Its not like in the days of 1980's Pirate Radio is it where we (ermm...I mean they...) transmitted a 19Khz tone to light the 'Stereo' lamp on folks radios to think the station was actually TX-ing in Stereo when we weren't?
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104.1? That's Radio Sheffield's frequency here in Donny - no wonder the reception is dodgy!Dave the bass wrote:Its not like in the days of 1980's Pirate Radio is it where we (ermm...I mean they...) transmitted a 19Khz tone to light the 'Stereo' lamp on folks radios to think the station was actually TX-ing in Stereo when we weren't?
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We (...erm...I mean they...) last transmitted in approx 1986, I'd be surprised if we got as far as Donny frpm NW Kent on about 1W of FM through a 1/2 wave dipole aerialsimon wrote: 104.1? That's Radio Sheffield's frequency here in Donny - no wonder the reception is dodgy!
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Back of the hand numbers would indicate that anything more than a 4:1 compression ratio would need bore than 44k1. Or have I got it wrong?JackOfAll wrote:96k sample rate from a 320kbps stream. Now that's what I call compression! Can't be right.
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YepJackOfAll wrote:I'm going to ask a stupid question. Did you hit the "Apply" button after disabling AAC->AAC and restart the stream?
Here why I'm asking. I don't have access to native hardware to fiddle with this right now, but I know for sure that when faad is being used on the server to decode the BBC3 HD 320kbps stream and it is being converted to flac......
AudioFormat[encoding=FLAC, sampleRate=44100.0, sampleSizeInBits=16, channels=2, frameSize=4, frameRate=44100.0, bigEndian=false]
So I'd find it difficult to believe that 96khz is being streamed from the server to your Touch.
I hit the apply button when disabling AAC.
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Don't let that get in the way of a good honest slag-off of Radio Sheffield! Because they're besotted with United and Wednesday (even though they're in a lower division than us and Barnsley) they get the FM frequency and we get AM if we're lucky enough to be featured. AM in Donny is rubbish, might as well listen to some French channel. In fact most of the time trying to listen to Radio Sheff on AM IS listening to French radio.Dave the bass wrote:We (...erm...I mean they...) last transmitted in approx 1986, I'd be surprised if we got as far as Donny frpm NW Kent on about 1W of FM through a 1/2 wave dipole aerialsimon wrote: 104.1? That's Radio Sheffield's frequency here in Donny - no wonder the reception is dodgy!
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I suppose there's always the possibility that somebody has left a line of code in 7.6.1 telling SBS to upsample AAC streams.......
Seeing that there was all the fallout over 7.6.0 , and the need to sort things pronto, it's not beyond the realms of possibility
Seeing that there was all the fallout over 7.6.0 , and the need to sort things pronto, it's not beyond the realms of possibility
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