NightAire said:I think the stations should be FORCED to feed a de-emphasized audio feed to the encoder, for two reasons:
#1 - Those outside the local market can hear what they sound like OTA.
and
#2 - Maybe some stations would finally back off their "nailed to the wall" processing!
(Of course I'm joking about forcing the stations to do it... but it IS frustrating to hear a stream that has little to nothing to do with what broadcast listeners are hearing.)
Are you kidding me? FORCED to feed de-emphasized audio? Encoding codecs are VERY different than analog OTA or even HD radio.
**EDIT** I missed the part saying you were kidding, thank God.
As for #2, don't count on it.