Roberts 93i Stream and BBC High Definition Streams

[simoncn]

(22-12-2015 11:49)Steve Wrote:  I am new to both MinimServer and MinimStreamer, so if I'm asking obvious questions, please remember this.

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Quote:1. Why does PCM show 1536 kbps, but MP3 only show 128 kbps?

The PCM stream is a fully uncompressed version of the compressed AAC 320 kbps stream and contains exactly the same audio data.

The MP3 stream is uncompressed from AAC 320 kbps and then recompressed as MP3 128 kbps. This should sound pretty bad.

If you need the stream in MP3 for some reason, you can recompress it to MP3 320 kbps instead of MP3 128 kbps by specifying *:mp3;320 instead of *:mp3. This will be better than MP3 128 kbps and worse than PCM 1536 kbps.

Quote:2. Am I actually getting High Definition - it sounds no different to the standard definition Internet Radio feeds?

You are getting what the BBC calls HD sound. This isn't the same as hi-res audio but is better than most radio streams. If you can't hear any improvement when listening to the PCM 1536 kbps stream, this probably means the quality of the player isn't sufficient to show a difference.

Quote:3. What do I need too change?

You need to change *:mp3 back to *:L16.

Quote:4. Artist and Album show "Not Specified" - via the normal internet radio mode there is a description showing "The UK's most listened to radio station" and Genre showing as "Variety", Country as "London United Kingdom" - can something be done to change this?

The transcoding process used by MinimStreamer removes this metadata and you will need to live with this limitation if you want to use MinimStreamer.