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Audio Graphics Complains: Few HD Radio Samples Online
Audio Graphics notes that while HD Radio is being marketed like crazy, it's hard to hear a sample: It would make a lot of sense to offer some limited HD Radio feeds or downloads that would have actual digital broadcast quality to demonstrate to a potential buyer what they're going to get. But Audio Graphics came up empty, finding no streams. This might have something to do with the nature of digital rights: radio stations might not own the rights to stream music at the quality that HD Radio can offer--although plenty do offer 128 Kbps or 192 Kbps MP3 and similar streams which aren't far off.
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The hybrid mode of IBOC-FM only provides enough overhead for a 96 kbps audio stream; stations that are multicasting are doing so on a 64/32 or 48/48 split. 96+ won't happen till stations go all-digital, and that is years away.
Posted by: John Anderson | March 15, 2006 12:36 AM
I've had a set of samples up for a while now. They are recorded from actual HD Radio broadcasts, onto portable CD recorders.
http://www.opengeek.org/2005/03/hd-radio-analog-fm-mp3-and-ogg-audio.html
Posted by: Doug Dingus | March 29, 2006 5:18 PM