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uzi
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Israel
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May-01-2008 21:16
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Generation X
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ojay
You have no idea how this whole thing works - apparently. Do you think Armin will prepare 40 different qualities for 40 different radio stations?
This danceradio.cz is - by teh way - also an FM station broadcasting in Prague - the capital of the Czech Republic - so the total number of listeners is probably MUCH higher than that of DI.fm. Dio you really think that DI.fm is an elitist radio station? What do you think |
Okay, so how does this whole thing work? Did you talk to Armin himself about it? I know that Armin has (or at least had signed) a deal with DI.FM for internet broadcasts, as was announced way back in the day when he was finding a new home for the ASOT show online. Thus, I assume any other online broadcaster licenses the rights to the show from DI.FM as well (or re-broadcasts at a later time). So, tell me then why DI.FM would broadcast in 192kbps for its paying subscribers and give out the original 256kbps quality file to a random station? Even if DI.FM didn't have exclusive rights to the full quality broadcast files, who does? Does one of us Armin's agents send the show around to every online broadcaster and FM station? I don't think so. I do admit I don't know exactly what the process is, but I have a hunch the original encoding is not 256kbps OGG and this .cz station is somehow the only one that has it/is allowed to play it.
A likely scenario is that Armin has let's say a 320kbps file. Then, DI.FM decodes this down to 192kbps and adds it's own voiceovers and normalizing and whatnot. And a live event like this tonight, Armin again probably has a box setup to stream the show at a given bitrate (although with bandwidth limitations, one wonders if he can do 320kbps without risk). Then, stations grab this stream and transcode/transmit in realtime. The problem is that this is all speculative and nobody really knows the exact details except those involved in the process. So, I just wonder what evidence you have that danceradio.cz actually has higher quality than DI.FM or anyone else? Again, if they broadcasted in 320kbps or 192kbps, there is still no way for you to know what's the original quality.
I also fail to see how it's relevant that danceradio.cz has a large FM listener base. You do know that there are no high bitrates for FM radio station broadcasts right? In fact, most audiophiles are amazed FM and even AM radiowaves are still so popular.
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Coxx
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Toronto
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May-01-2008 21:17
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ShadowEX
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Rhode Island, USA
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May-01-2008 21:19
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