There are lots of sites, like Mike's Radio World, but classical, and indeed
anything in India are nearly all rubbish quality.
I have had problems with streaming above about 96 bps at congested times in
the UK, there are often gaps and hiccups as if there is a problem somewhere
else in the chain of interconnects.
Even the Aussie DIG stations appear to now be using 80 bps and win media
feeds.
I really must stress that the win media feeds are now streets ahead of the
others for listenable compression.
Do not bother with China, they seem to be all real and rubbish bit rates.
Brian

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In article , Brian Gaff
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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.

Afraid I cannae be bothered to waste my time with 'doze. Easier to get the
things I want in other ways. TBH I can live without net radio if no-one is
providing what I was interested in. :-)

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.

Well, the best classical I've found so far is KUAT Tucson. This is
streaming mp3 at 192kbps, and does have a decent variety of classical
music. Yesterday they were playing Stravinsky's Pulchinella. (spelling?)
At the moment they are playing Sibelius Tapiola. Only listened to each for
a short time, and via the mid-fi system in the dining room (Armstrong 600,
Spendor LS3/5As) but the results are enjoyable. Also unlike the Swiss
bland
Classic the announcements are in English... well, American, which is close
enough to serve. ;-

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

List of URLs? :-)

I've now had a look at the 'tuner2.com' list. That only gave me 9
'classical' stations, and with the exception of a Hungarian one, all
classicfm clones. When I search it for indian or indian classical I either
get nothing, or a bollywood station. Not exactly what I was after!

The 'tuner2.com' site only listed a total of just over 200 stations.
Surely
there are thousands of stations? The KUAT one wasn't on the tuner2 list
that I got by searching it for classical.

Is there not a bigger site somewhere that gives a more comprehensive
listing? One no biassed to the bland and predictable? Surely there should
be dozens of stations like KUAT, and bags of indian music stations from
the
subcontinent?

Slainte,

Jim

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