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WDLW 98.9fm am 1380

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.
 
snowdog88 said:
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.
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RadioisbetterinHD said:
thanks exbloguro
wow 192kpbs that is so interesting it should sound like fm quality like 98.9fm with those numbers
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I listened to that stream and it sounds just like the 128 kbps WMP stream. The additional 64 bits does absolutely nothing. It can be 320 kbps or lossless and still sound bad. Definitely something wrong in the chain before making its way to the streaming encoder.
 
RadioisbetterinHD said:
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...





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RadioisbetterinHD said:
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...





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Of the two ISPs that serve the station, the remaining one was only providing 15x1 Mbps….The primary was just restored I hear….
 
The WOBL stream is the same way. I saw a post about a show that caught my interest, so I tried tuning in online. Turned it off after a couple minutes as I couldn't handle the sound quality
 
RadioisbetterinHD said:
Thank you someone agrees about the sound quality it hurts your ears...yes its not clean like fm radio
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I have listened to so many streams of stations from around the country/world and some have sounded so atrocious that I turned them off after a minute or so. Some may have only had a left or right channel on the stereo output, some that were supposed to be stereo but were being broadcast in mono, some so over modulated that it sound like they were screaming into a tin can, some sounding like that had turned on the reverb and set on high. And it's not just a one time thing, I've gone back to listen to some later on and the sound hadn't changed at all.
 
I was the morning DJ and CE at 1380 when it was WLRO back in the early 70's. We just had an audiomax at the studio and a Voumemax at the transmitter site. Today I find processing with just compression on the stream sounds the best. It's not a case of heavy processing on a stream like it is on air.
 


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