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HD 2 stations in AAC quality

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erwin33

I found 3 stations from Greater Media in Detroit who transmit in HD quality.
The have 2 stations. One of the stations is Magic 105.1, the have an HD2
station called More Magic http://www.moremagicradio.com/
They use AAC, it sounds great.

I wonder why other radiostations in the US don't use this AAC quality.
Better sound, lower bitrate means more listeners en lower costs. I wish all
the Clear Channel stations, for example, use this quality.
 
> I found 3 stations from Greater Media in Detroit who
> transmit in HD quality.
> The have 2 stations. One of the stations is Magic 105.1, the
> have an HD2
> station called More Magic http://www.moremagicradio.com/
> They use AAC, it sounds great.
>
> I wonder why other radiostations in the US don't use this
> AAC quality.
> Better sound, lower bitrate means more listeners en lower
> costs. I wish all
> the Clear Channel stations, for example, use this quality.
>
Love the sound of the AAC streams. A 32k aac stream, sounds as good, if not better than most 128k streams. And MAN, you dont even want to know how good a 64k AAC stream is. Its comparable to a 256k stream.
 
erwin33 said:
I wonder why other radiostations in the US don't use this AAC quality.
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It's as simple as asking "How come station's don't put a lot of ads on their HD2 signals?" Reason is nobody's listening! AAC sounds super, but the vast majority of streaming audio player software has yet to get on board with having the codec native or available to it. If they want the masses to hear it most will stream in a format that's popular, even if it's not as effecient or high in quality. That's why there are so many mp3 streams out there.

My own stream is in mp3Pro and I'd venture there's less choices for compatible for players out there. Sure, you can isten with a plain mp3 stream player, but you won't hear the extended quality. This is something I've fought with myself for a long time. AAC would be wonderful if more players supported it and I would gladly jump on the bandwagon if more players had the capacity.
 
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