Tír Na HiFi

I mentioned today at Fran's meeting a steaming radio station, streaming flac - here it is http://radio.cesnet.cz/
A classical streaming station. I believe it is in an experimental stage and the only one of it's kind. It makes available 16 bit 48khz signal streamed. It does need a high bandwidth connection.

I have only got the flac stream working with VLC playback software so far - Enjoy!

Thanks for that.

I'm listening to it at the moment - 16/48KHz stream - I'm seeing stream bitrates of up to 800kb/s

What do you think of the quality?

It also seems possible to record in VLC but I haven't got this working yet :)

jkeny wrote:I'm listening to it at the moment - 16/48KHz stream - I'm seeing stream bitrates of up to 800kb/s

What do you think of the quality?

It also seems possible to record in VLC but I haven't got this working yet :)

I'm listening to a different station on the web at present. I'll let you know how I get on later.

It sounds very nice on the computer, but that's not a real critical test. I was planning to get the squeezebox Touch, then I would then be able to feed it to the dCS Scarlatti DAC, and that ought to give good (that is, CD equivalent) results if it's being done properly. Maybe an internet radio...

Thanks for the VLC tip. None of the millions of programs I have already installed seemed to be able to do anything with it! It's showing on VLC as 48/16, and 600-700 kb/s.

Ciaran wrote: Thanks for the VLC tip. None of the millions of programs I have already installed seemed to be able to do anything with it! It's showing on VLC as 48/16, and 600-700 kb/s.

VLC must be one fo the most useful bits of software ever written. Movies, video or music are all played properly (often even partial files can be played) at maximum quality. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest it be one's default player but it should be an option on your system... and yes folks.... it is free.

I'm having a listen to that station now and it does sound pretty good alright. It seems more forgiving of bandwidth than I thought since my connection here wouldn't be the fastest ever.


Fran

Ciaran wrote:It sounds very nice on the computer, but that's not a real critical test. I was planning to get the squeezebox Touch, then I would then be able to feed it to the dCS Scarlatti DAC, and that ought to give good (that is, CD equivalent) results if it's being done properly. Maybe an internet radio...

Thanks for the VLC tip. None of the millions of programs I have already installed seemed to be able to do anything with it! It's showing on VLC as 48/16, and 600-700 kb/s.

if you switched to a mac they have optical digital outputs, so no worries getting info to the scarlatti... and they never break!!

I've just set up airport express (in about 2 minutes) streaming music from my mac in the man-cave in the garden to my fatman in the kitchen using my iphone to control itunes remotely.... I can see my cd's gathering dust already.... the airport will also supply a digital out to your scarlatti so you don't "have" to buy a mac...!! but you should, really, go on....

Thanks jkeny very nice radio station to relax. I got it working on Foobar 2000 (beta1) and I think quality is a bit better than VLC player. I just compared on my PC with Grado headphones.

Interesting: I'm sure I must have installed foobar at some point, but it didn't show up yesterday. I must rummage!

jaybee, my PC has digital out also from the soundcard, but that doesn't overcome the problem of getting it to the hi-fi: that's where the Squeezebox Touch would come in (if it were available).