Starret's mp3 microtonal music broadcast

John Starrett wrote:

> I am
> currently broadcasting [snip] at 128Kbps, which is pretty high
> fidelity mp3. The bandwidth is real narrow for a media server, so it
> cannot handle many simultaneous listeners, but the software is supposed to
> cut the bitrate as the number of listeners increases.

John, this is a great idea but few of us are connecting to the web at a
high enough rate to use
it. Most of us, at a pretty safe guess, are connecting with 56k modems
or less, meaning that
we can't reliably use a stream much faster than the mid 20s to mid 30s.
24k would probably be
optimal, in terms of reaching a majority of us with the highest feasible
quality. To reach
almost everyone, you'd need to knock it down to around 16k. Mpu still
sounds pretty good at
those rates, considering it's most often heard from $20 computer
speakers. A lower bandwidth
broadcast should also help you serve more streams at once, should they
be needed.

I'm especially interested in the tape swap material, since I lost my
copy in a car accident the
first time I tried to listen to it. I guess it put me in a trance or
something :-/

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David J. Finnamore
Nashville, TN, USA
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