DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| With HD Radio up and running, RIAA is simply a Bigot!
Is the RIAA aware of HD Radio? Since they consider a "garden variety" webcast stream (64Kbps, MP3) to provide "perfect" copies of their members' product, HD Radio should really rankle that lawyer-and-accountant infested organization to no end! Its sound quality easily beats 99.44% of the webcast streams out there. CBS Radio provides streams of their O-and-O stations that broadcast in HD here:
»www.cbsradio.com/streaming/index···t_format
It seems that they've even put the extra effort forth to get "darn close" to HD broadcast quality. It's worth a look and listen.
Terrestrial HD radio pays the same public-performance royalties an analog stations do, and their quality beats the netcasters' streams (repeated for emphasis).
For the (fornication)heads at the RIAA to continue their Klanning at the webcasters, with the current technology the over-the-air folks have now, makes them deserving of a gift of "hot cross buns", as defined by George Carlin: "Take one of their burning crosses and shove it right up their collective ..." |
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id_deleted
join:2003-05-01
Salt Lake City, UT
4 edits | If you want to fight back against the RIAA I will let you in on a little secret:
When HD Radio was first implement, there was a stipulation set forth that no device capable of integrating with a PC would be allowed iBiquity licensing. Thats why there are no HD Radio tuner cards or USB recievers on the market.
Why? Because the digital HD Radio signal is typically so close to CD quality that anyone could record it and have an mp3 of much higher quality than the mp3's available for purchase. They were also aware of the current legislation that permits personal use recording of radio stations broadcasts that use our public airwaves. IOW, if such capability became possible and popular, it could likely result in the end of their lucrative business.
But, they screwed up, as someone came along and hacked two models of HD Radio recievers so that they could interface with a personal computer. 
So if you have one of these recievers along with some cheap interface hardware and software offered through HD RadioPC, you can automatically record all the songs played by an HD Radio station to high bitrate mp3 files, each one labeled correctly with artist and title. IOW, all the free mp3 files you could ever want, and its completely legal.
Thats pretty cool as it is, and it makes the RIAA quiver whenever they see that site referenced, but the software creators went much further than that. They developed a way to securely share the reciever control and audio over the internet. So, you can control and listen to your HD Radio reciever attached to your home PC from your office PC, even if your office happened to be in a different country.
You can also provide that same remote capability to another family member or friend. I'm sure you get the idea.. |
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DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| I'm listening to CBS' stream of KROQ-HD2 right nowm, through my Sony amp and Klipsch speakers... Let's just say that the somewhere between 320Kbps MP3 and FLAC quality has me working on a little "project" I can already tune amongst 10 presets, and "almost" have the atrist/title/album info...
-NK |
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id_deleted
join:2003-05-01
Salt Lake City, UT
4 edits | Any bitrate over 320 kbps would be a waste actually. If you do the math; the HDC (based upon MPEG-4 HE-AAC+) codec that HD Radio uses for its digital data can obtain true CD quality at a station broadcast bitrate of 100 kbps. HD Radio stations actually broadcast at a slightly lower bitrate of 96 kbps. The HDC codec is approx. three times more efficient at data compression than the mp3 codec. Thus, 3 X 96 = 288 kbps for an mp3 to accurately reproduce a 96 kbps HD Radio broadcast stream. Anything much more would just be unneeded overhead. |
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