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What Bitrate have you found to be ideal for web streaming of music?
What Bitrate do most of the FM's streaming music on the web audio use?

Thanks
 
Depends on the codec and the sampling frequency and what you intended purpose is. AAC, mp3, OGG, and WMA each produce different percieved qualities at drastically different bitrates and sampling frequencies.
 
Thanks Dudefan-
It would be for the purpose of streaming music through MP3 or Windows Media Player.
 
Great Streaming Link

Let me post a great link to radio stations who stream on the Internet:

http://www.thestreamcenter.com

This site indicates the stream bitrates, and allows you to bypass those sites that normally require you to download a player (i.e. SPAM generator) to listen. You can also sort by location, call letters, format, etc. The site even allows you to work around some corporate network policies that prevent you from either installing software, or accessing external stream players.

If you want to listen to Canadian radio stations, try:

http://www.thestreamcenter.com/canada
 
If you are going to do mp3, you still have myriad choices.

The mp3 codec will let you adjust the bitrate and the sampling frequency. We're running a Barix with VBR (variable bit rate) stereo encoding at approximately 83kbps and a sampling frequency of 32khz. That gives enough quality at a somewhat lower speed that will suit most office and home networks. For dial-up, you's want a much lower bitrate and sampling speed and go mono.

Here's our stream so you can hear how it sounds: www.wxryfm.org:8000

It's good enough that it sounds very good on a decent home stereo.

Your best bet is to just play around with the parameters until you get something that sounds good to you.

I would also consider what you are using for source material b/c of the issue of cascading codecs. Depending on whether you are using compressed/uncompressed audio files and the compression settings, the stream encoding settings may cause the audio to fall apart and sound reall "watery."
 
Ideally, I recommend streaming at two different bitrates. The higher rate targets the High Speed Cable Modem / DSL users, and the lower one allows dial up users to listen.

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