Owen Smith wrote: > I think people playing Radio 3 with VLC and ffmpeg constitute such a > tiny fraction of listeners as to be irrelevant. Sadly the same probably > goes for LMS these days, I suspect there aren't enough of us to make an > impact. And none of the other hardware internet radio suppliers got > their act together in time, which sadly isn't a surprise. Since release of latest 1.5.4.4 on 4-June-2017 whose main role is Flac - there have been about 850 downloads - many of these will be re-installs/failed installs so I think probably 200-300 real users.
> What matters is people playing with web browsers, and much more > importantly iPlayer Radio app on various platforms. But I believe > iPlayer Radio doesn't support Dash Flac, so this is a very early trial > of the infrastructure in a situation where they know they're not going > to be swamped with more listeners than they can cope with. But that > raises the question of how they can possibly judge the appeal of > lossless Radio 3 with such a small subset of the listeners. I suspect BBC had same issues about FM radio - not many had the equipment to listen when broadcasts started, range was worse than AM (poor rural coverage) - so why did BBC implement it ?. The BBC's mandate is usually wider than a commerical station and covers the issues of improving quality etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
