{"id":529,"date":"2008-02-15T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/15\/internet-radio\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:36:16","slug":"internet-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/15\/internet-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still remain a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/somafm.com\/\">SomaFM<\/a>, a network of awesome streaming music.<\/p>\n<p>Two interesting things I&#8217;ve come across, though:<\/p>\n<p>The first is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codingtechnologies.com\/products\/aacPlus.htm\">AACPlus<\/a>. The webpage makes it look like a minor little project. But it&#8217;s being used by a number of streaming stations, and it&#8217;s supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC<\/a> and WinAmp, among others. What makes it notable is that I&#8217;m listening to a 48 kbps stream of one of Soma&#8217;s stations right now&#8230; And it sounds better than a 128 kbps stream. You can apparently drop it to 32 kbps and drop to just slightly less than CD quality, and at 24 kbps it&#8217;s still on par with MP3 streams. It works out great: it delivers high-quality audio to me, and instantly doubles (at least) the number of listeners they can handle, since bandwidth is almost always the &#8220;limiting reactant&#8221; with streaming audio.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the RIAA is apparently having luck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savenetradio.org\/\">getting Congress to raise webcasting rates enormously<\/a> again&#8230; In some instances they&#8217;ll apparently go up by more than 1,000%. If you check out the Soma site, they&#8217;re coming up short on funding every month, pleading for donations to stay online. This is the case with a <em>lot<\/em> of streaming radio sites, too. They&#8217;re barely staying online as it is. Raising their rates by a factor of ten is going to <em>kill<\/em> Internet radio.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remain a fan of SomaFM, a network of awesome streaming music. Two interesting things I&#8217;ve come across, though: The first is AACPlus. The webpage makes it look like a minor little project. But it&#8217;s being used by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/15\/internet-radio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12,15,21,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-interesting","category-living","category-politics","category-programming","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}