BBC online aac stream sampling rate move

**J G Miller** · April 12th 12, 09:52 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On Thursday, April 12th, 2012, at 21:47:48 +0100, Silk pronounced:

All music deserves to be treated equally.

Including Inuit

http://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=8IqOegVCNKI

and Tuvan throat singing.

http://www.ubu.COM/ethno/soundings/tuva.html

**Silk** · April 13th 12, 08:11 AM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 12/04/2012 22:52, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, April 12th, 2012, at 21:47:48 +0100, Silk pronounced:

All music deserves to be treated equally.

Including Inuit

http://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=8IqOegVCNKI

and Tuvan throat singing.

http://www.ubu.COM/ethno/soundings/tuva.html

If there's a large enough audience, then it deserves the best quality.

By the same measure, if hardly anyone listens to it, why should it be
broadcasted in higher quality than genres with a higher audience?

Statistically, almost no one listens to Radio 3, yet it gets priority
treatment. Why is this?

**Don Pearce[_3_]** · April 13th 12, 09:30 AM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:11:04 +0100, Silk wrote:

On 12/04/2012 22:52, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, April 12th, 2012, at 21:47:48 +0100, Silk pronounced:

All music deserves to be treated equally.

Including Inuit

http://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=8IqOegVCNKI

and Tuvan throat singing.

http://www.ubu.COM/ethno/soundings/tuva.html

If there's a large enough audience, then it deserves the best quality.

By the same measure, if hardly anyone listens to it, why should it be
broadcasted in higher quality than genres with a higher audience?

Statistically, almost no one listens to Radio 3, yet it gets priority
treatment. Why is this?

It is to do with matching the technical quality of the broadcast
medium with that of the recorded medium. Current pop music with its
clipping, limiting and severely restricted dynamic range does not
require a high bit rate to carry it.

d

**Mike[_3_]** · April 13th 12, 10:09 AM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

It is to do with matching the technical quality of the broadcast
medium with that of the recorded medium. Current pop music with its
clipping, limiting and severely restricted dynamic range does not
require a high bit rate to carry it.

d

Radio 1 broadcasts quite a bit of live music so the source material would
benefit from decent quality reproduction.

Mike

**Silk** · April 13th 12, 06:08 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 13/04/2012 11:09, Mike wrote:
It is to do with matching the technical quality of the broadcast
medium with that of the recorded medium. Current pop music with its
clipping, limiting and severely restricted dynamic range does not
require a high bit rate to carry it.

d

Radio 1 broadcasts quite a bit of live music so the source material
would benefit from decent quality reproduction.

Ah, but it's not "proper" music.

**Silk** · April 13th 12, 06:07 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 13/04/2012 10:30, Don Pearce wrote:

It is to do with matching the technical quality of the broadcast
medium with that of the recorded medium. Current pop music with its
clipping, limiting and severely restricted dynamic range does not
require a high bit rate to carry it.

You are a clueless stuck-up old codger who obviously knows nothing about
modern music.

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.

**J G Miller** · April 13th 12, 06:16 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On Friday, April 13th, 2012, at 19:07:03h +0100, Silk wrote:

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.

Hey, finally a point upon which we can agree.

**Silk** · April 13th 12, 06:49 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 13/04/2012 19:16, J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, April 13th, 2012, at 19:07:03h +0100, Silk wrote:

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.

Hey, finally a point upon which we can agree.

We got there in the end.

**Richard Evans** · April 13th 12, 10:44 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 13/04/2012 19:16, J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, April 13th, 2012, at 19:07:03h +0100, Silk wrote:

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.

Hey, finally a point upon which we can agree.

I agree too.

**Silk** · April 14th 12, 04:13 PM posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio

On 13/04/2012 23:44, Richard Evans wrote:
On 13/04/2012 19:16, J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, April 13th, 2012, at 19:07:03h +0100, Silk wrote:

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.

Hey, finally a point upon which we can agree.

I agree too.

:-)