Whats with the super-low-end 56kB bandwidth?
I’m broadcasting at 56K + 22050 Hz for several reasons. One, it was the maximum standard coded provided by Microsoft’s public-license version of NetShow. I continue to use this ancient compressor because it’s very high quality for its bandwidth and the compression takes very little CPU overhead. I’ve tried using LAME and OddCast, but they can really drain on processor time and I’ve found the quality to be marginal. That may be a thing of the past, but it was so for quite a while. Two, I don’t believe that the broadcast should be much higher in quality. I’m not intending it to be a perfect copy. If you covet one of the albums, I strongly encourage you to track it down and purchase a copy of your own. I firmly believe that these artists should be compensated for their beautiful efforts. Three, a (decreasingly large) chunk of my source material was saved at 96K + 44100 Hz. So effectively, the originals already contain compression artifacts ( grrrrrr ). I’m slowly upgrading these rates, bu
