how to get best "radio", from PC-amp-speaker

[theAnonymous1]

Originally posted by Geek


Try the stream from KWJZ.com

Cheers!

"64 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass CBR"

[gychang]

are they any better, any of them approach the sound of CD?

I know yahoo and musicmatch etc has subscription service but don't know the quality of sound.

gychang

[Geek]

Originally posted by theAnonymous1


"64 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass CBR"

I meant for the Jazz content. The quality is icky
(I've emailed them about it too)

[dangus]

I believe both XM and Sirius bitrates are pretty pathetic.

Try the audio section at archive.org; there's all kinds of music there, and some is in lossless formats.

There are often lossless albums posted on P2P networks, if those aren't illegal where you are. Also USENET, probably.

Myself, I mostly listen to DJ mixes, and there's an infinite quantity of those spread around the 'net hosted by DJs for promo purposes, by collectives and forums, or as archives of "radio" shows.

[star882]

Originally posted by Nordic
Most cheap TV cards for the PC have FM reception...

In theory, almost any TV card can receive FM. All that is needed is that the tuner can tune to the FM band (almost all can) and the DSP able to decode FM or pass it though for software decoding (requires firmware support). A DSP able to decode TV, especially QAM-256, would be very powerful and potentially able to decode FM and still have lots of capacity left over for further signal conditioning.
As for quality, assuming the hardware is not too bad, it all lies in the algorithms. Since FM decoding doesn't actually take much processing power, many cards rely on the host CPU to do some or all of the decoding. That is because it is significantly easier to write code for a common CPU than a specialized DSP.
Of which, with GNU Radio, the algorithms can be modified by the user!
http://gnuradio.org/trac

[Geek]

Hey, thanks!

That one's even on my apt-get list.