(11-15-2021, 08:30 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: Thanks to the introductory post from @PioneerSX450 we have a new candidate in the classical radio category: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam streaming at either AAC/128kbps or MP3/192kbps. I was totally unaware of their treasure trove of recorded live performances.
Over the years, the RCO has been consistently ranked in the top 5 from around the world. Never got to the Concertgebouw in my few visits to the Netherlands but I was fortunate to attend an RCO performance when they toured the US years ago. Sensational!
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The RCO stream features unusually fine recorded sound IMHO. I don't know the magic their audio engineers have.. perhaps a combination of a great hall with great acoustics, plus superb mic placement and balance/mix. Enjoy!
11-16-2021, 02:28 AM (This post was last modified: 11-16-2021, 02:46 AM by TheOldPresbyope.)
For the sake of completeness, I thought I'd follow up on KCSM - the "Bay Area's Jazz station" located on the San Francisco Peninsula. This is a traditional, over-the-air community radio station simulcasting their broadcast over the Internet.
They claim the HE-AAC endpoint is their "best sounding stream" and my aging ears agree.
Again, I found an undersized logo on their website, downloaded it, merged it into a 300px x 300px background layer, and saved it as a jpg file. See attached.
Genre: Jazz
Broadcaster: KCSM-FM 91.7
Home page: https://www.kcsm.org
Language: English
Country: USA
Region: North America
Bit rate (kbps): 64
Audio format: HE-AAC
Geo-fenced: No
Where bit rate and audio format depend on the particular stream, of course.
(11-16-2021, 02:28 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: For the sake of completeness, I thought I'd follow up on KCSM - the "Bay Area's Jazz station" located on the San Francisco Peninsula. This is a traditional, over-the-air community radio station simulcasting their broadcast over the Internet.
(03-25-2021, 11:31 AM)Zigzag Wrote: I hugely appreciate the effort and time that Tim and others put into MoOde. Here's a few stations, which I hope some of you will enjoy. All have been tested and are currently working, are ad-free, and very much appear to be voluntary and/or community based.
(03-25-2021, 11:31 AM)Zigzag Wrote: I hugely appreciate the effort and time that Tim and others put into MoOde. Here's a few stations, which I hope some of you will enjoy. All have been tested and are currently working, are ad-free, and very much appear to be voluntary and/or community based.
It's an m3u8 file which is self-referential with some session info I haven't cracked (maybe not enough coffee yet) but it's playing fine in a moOde 8 player I'm listening to now.
HD Radio : 24 bit, 44.1 kHz, Stereo, 128 kbps : http://haradioZZZZZZ-rfritschka.radioca.st/
Replace ZZZZZZ with one of: blues rock classicrock country hot100 jazz partymix rockandroll
