Well, real is no great loss quality wise, but you really do need the windows
media formats as they do have one of the best sounds. Very few stations seem
to be above evn 64kbits and the windows formats do seem to be able to
squeeze listenable stuff out of this, albeit with some loss of phase
resolution on stereo.

There are some German stations with 192, in mp3, but they just push out
gold station rubbish most of the time.
Some of the US community stations like the one in Fort Colins on 96bps has
classics shows that sound reasonable.
Brian

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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Hi,

During the last week or so I finally changed over to broadband for my
connection. One of the things I have since started to explore is 'internet
radio'. However I haven't yet found much that is interesting. Wondering if
this is because I haven't yet looked in the right places, or if it isn't
present! :-)

My interest is in three areas of music.

1) 'Classical' music. By this I don't just mean clones of Classic FM. But
stations that are as likely to play Stravinsky or Britten as Beethoven or
Brahms.

2) 'Classical Indian'. Again, I don't just mean Ravi Shankar or Bangra.
:-) I am also interested in other forms of non-European 'classical' music
like those from the 'far east'.

3) Jazz. As with the above, with a decent range of content. Not just 'easy
listening' or 'MOR' under another name.

FWIW Since I don't use windows/mac/linux I can't access 'real audio' or
'wma' streams. So am looking for open formats based on mp3, etc.
Preferrably 192kbps or 128kbps to make the results worth hearing.

Anyone know of some good stations, or can point me to websites that list
them? Or don't they exist?...

Slainte,

Jim

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