[BC] Interesting Streaming Demo

[Tom Hartnett]

Greg,

Thanks for that. I've long been an XM subscriber with full knowledge
of their crappy sound, but willing to tolerate it due to the diversity
they offer in programs. But it's nice to put a reference like that on
just how awful it is. And man, there's almost no stereo image on that
"bad" demo.

My only issue is your choice of 40kbps as the coding rate for the
"good" channel. I was under the impression that XM coded at sub 32k
rates for their music channels, and the Neural processing they
implement was mostly to cover up the deficiencies of the codec at
those horribly challenging rates. Do you have better info than me
about what data rate they're coding the pop music channels at? (I
assume the classical channels get allocated a bit more).

Tom Hartnett
Comrex

> Message: 19
> From: "Greg Ogonowski" <greg at orban.com>
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> Turn on your BIG computer speakers!
>
> Interesting streaming demo featuring XM 6.
> XM 6 was chosen for the difficult audio material of the time and to demonstrate improved consistency.
> The exact stream details are on the actual Player.
> Note the bitrates of the two streams.
>
> http://www.opticodec.com/xm
>
> This demo will be up for only a short period of time.
> Share it with all that might be interested.
> XM should be.
>
> -greg.
> greg (a) indexcom.com
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