I heard the funniest thing on the way home today. Listening to my favorite Smooth Jazz HD 2 station 101.9 WBAV. The instrumental they were playing sounded way off, really s l o w. I thought is this some new song or attempt to get attention? I called the station and the receptionist asked if I was listening to their stream and I said no, on air I have an HD radio in the car. She offered to go talk to the PD to see what was going on. She came back and said All 6 of the Beasley stations were going though some kind of software conversion. So stations still can play music at the wrong speed!!!
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WBAV HD2 taking it S L O W.
- Thread starter Mike Sheridan
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Well 95.1 has always played music at the wrong speed. They have historically tended to speed up the music. Wonder if that will finally change.
I am not sure how CBS now Beasley had their AV system setup but AudioVault as far back as AV-100 can run linear non-compressed wav files. Out of the box the setting is for MPEG-2 Layer-2 4 to 1 but it is easily changed to linear.
When I worked at WBT back in 1999 when AudioVault was installed the 107.9 folks decided it would be best to record in all of the music themselves. They were about halfway through when they discovered it was set to record L2. They had plenty of hard drive space on the system so it was decided to switch to linear and start over.
The issue with audio sounding slow is not a compression issue it is a sample rate issue. Audio recorded or ripped at 48 KHz will sound slow at 32 KHz or 44 KHz unless some conversion takes place. Some soundcards will do this on board. Some won't. That is why it is important to pick a standard and stick to it. Most times I use 44.1 since that is what a CD is.
Pitch is another issue. Most automation playout systems that I am aware of does not have a way to adjust the pitch. If a PD wants a song pitched up or down it would need to be recorded in that way. That has nothing to do with sample rate or compression ratio.
t123
When I worked at WBT back in 1999 when AudioVault was installed the 107.9 folks decided it would be best to record in all of the music themselves. They were about halfway through when they discovered it was set to record L2. They had plenty of hard drive space on the system so it was decided to switch to linear and start over.
The issue with audio sounding slow is not a compression issue it is a sample rate issue. Audio recorded or ripped at 48 KHz will sound slow at 32 KHz or 44 KHz unless some conversion takes place. Some soundcards will do this on board. Some won't. That is why it is important to pick a standard and stick to it. Most times I use 44.1 since that is what a CD is.
Pitch is another issue. Most automation playout systems that I am aware of does not have a way to adjust the pitch. If a PD wants a song pitched up or down it would need to be recorded in that way. That has nothing to do with sample rate or compression ratio.
t123
When I worked at K-104.7 (2005-2007) I was told the music was non compressed wav files.
What I heard on WBAV-HD2 was more than a pitch change, it sounded like half speed. Too bad someone didn't hear it and yank it off the air. I doubt too much attention is paid to HD2 channels.
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