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**John R Leddy** · #51 (**permalink**) July 18th 15, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by John R Leddy

Out of idleness I did add the following stations to foobar yesterday afternoon:
Audiophile Jazz (Jazz) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=160671
BBS (Swing) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-...n.pls?id=44608
Dusty Vinyl Radio (Big Band) 320kbit/s 48kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=460269
Groove City FX (Smooth Jazz) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=535237
Jazz Piano Magic 320k (Hard Bop) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=336469
NuJazz.net (Smooth Jazz) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=643517
Quietmoney Radio (Jazz) 320kbit/s 48kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=591415
SomehowJazz (Jazz) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-...n.pls?id=13786
~bEE (Jazz) 320kbit/s 44.1kHz MP3 - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-....pls?id=167874

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Originally Posted by Jim Lesurf[_2_]

Interesting list. But note that mp3 isn't necessarily as good as aac at the same rate. That said, 320k mp3 should be capable of decent results, but in practice this will depend on the care with which the streams are made.

No considerations bar bitrate I'm afraid. I just went to SHOUTcast - Jazz - Bitrate and chose the stations at the top of the list. They'll do for now as background music when I'm using my computer, and if something jumps out at me I'll write down the artist's name for future reference. Whilst it's true to say I'm not expecting a 1Gb/s service anytime soon, do you think it's really the cost of bandwidth preventing vendors from streaming FLAC?