WDLW 98.9fm am 1380

[RadioisbetterinHD]

Hello does anyone listen to WDLW online streaming? is it me but it is so unbearable to listen it sounds like a dial up or dsl sound

but the station has amazing variety its a great station but streaming...

https://us2.maindigitalstream.com/ssl/WDLW

https://ice24.securenetsystems.net/WQGR

https://ice64.securenetsystems.net/WLEC

 

[snowdog88]

Streaming with Windows Media Player, it shows the stream as a 128 kbps MP3, but my spectrum visualizer shows that it's capping out at around 8 kHz instead of 16 kHz like a proper 128 kbps stream. My guess is that something isn't set correctly before the stream hits the encoder. Giving the crunchyness of the audio, I'm going to say it's being downgraded to 8 bit / 22 kHz instead of the proper 16 bit / 44.1 kHz.

 

[RadioisbetterinHD]

Is this the way to save money? so is that setting for talk radio instead of Music?

 

[snowdog88]

Is this the way to save money? so is that setting for talk radio instead of Music?

The encoder is still outputting 128 kbps regardless, so something in the chain is probably set incorrectly and is downconverting the audio.