Re: [slim] lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

2013-04-11 Thread Memford
Testing Absolute Radio UK's 60s, 70s, 90s, and 00s streams today, I found only the 60s stream to be lossy. Looks like it's time to bug the station with another report, as the 60s stream has been lossy for weeks, if not months. Your lossless stream URLs (in a *decent* player like VLC or

Re: [slim] Wanted: a Few Can-do FLAC Testers / p2p Streamers

2013-03-22 Thread Memford
Octavist: not quittin' on me, are you? Memford's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59245 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98327

Re: [slim] Wanted: a Few Can-do FLAC Testers / p2p Streamers

2013-03-21 Thread Memford
TheOctavist wrote: damnit any ideas?? ive tried with VLC foobar, and potplayer.. [image: http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv97/luxaeternaaudio/DAMN.gif] My most important idea is to get guide right (this time), which see above. Good hunting!

Re: [slim] FLAC Stream Quality a Mixed Bag

2013-03-18 Thread Memford
matka wrote: the ogg extension, is that just a container ? Also, when I captured some streams mplayer was reporting 128kbps. I just took a 60-second foobar2000 capture (using foobar2000's handy converter component) of Absolute Radio 80s (

Re: [slim] FLAC Stream Quality a Mixed Bag

2013-03-18 Thread Memford
matka wrote: Also, when I captured some streams mplayer was reporting 128kbps. Attached please find Media Player Classic MediaInfo text file.14617 https://archive.org/details/A8flac20130317 to download the 6.9 MB flac file mentioned above

Re: [slim] Wanted: a Few Can-do FLAC Testers / p2p Streamers

2013-03-18 Thread Memford
Julf wrote: I assume this is intended only for Windows users? I used to run Windows apps using Wine in my Hardy Heron half of a dual boot, and found them to perform better than as native Windows. User d-tracks breaks it down here: http://streamerp2p.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=1092start=0

Re: [slim] lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

2013-03-17 Thread Memford
SlimChances wrote: As far as I can tell none of these links work. Tried 3 of them in Tune In with no output (what is the operating times for stations EST) Your guess is as good as mine. There is no set schedule for when Absolute plays these streams. As I say in the title of this reply,

[slim] Wanted: a Few Can-do FLAC Testers / p2p Streamers

2013-03-17 Thread Memford
Hear lossless audio on the Reality Radio Streamer p2p radio, but first of all, you need to determine your bandwidth limits.Test your upload and download speeds (in Megabits per second) at 'speedtest.net' (http://speedtest.net). If your upload and download rates are at least 1 Megabit per second

Re: [slim] lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

2013-03-17 Thread Memford
SlimChances wrote: As far as I can tell none of these links work. Tried 3 of them in Tune In with no output (what is the operating times for stations EST) Forgive the Columbo Oh, Sir, just one more thing, but when you copied those links, you *did* right-click to do so, right? Ellipses make a

[slim] FLAC Stream Quality a Mixed Bag

2013-03-13 Thread Memford
I have bad news and better news on the Absolute Radio UK FLAC radio streams. Testing a FLAC capture taken roughly an hour ago with foobar2000 and Audacity, I found the audio to be lossy. Note: the designations of the attached image file titles are FA (frequency analysis) and FA-SV (frequency

Re: [slim] FLAC Stream Quality a Mixed Bag

2013-03-13 Thread Memford
At the moment, Absolute Radio 70s is testing lossless. http://icecast.as34763.net/absoluteradio.co.uk/a7flac.ogg in your media player When I began writing this follow-up post least one of the other streams was still encoded as lossy. I fully expect the RED (Radio Engineering Dept). at

Re: [slim] Why I Take My Leave

2013-03-08 Thread Memford
garym wrote: Huh?, your original post with URLs is still there: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?65553-lossless-internet-radio-streaming-in-FLAC!p=740013viewfull=1#post740013 My original post with URLs does not appear in my browsers (Firefox, Comodo Dragon, Tor Bundle, Internet

Re: [slim] Why I Take My Leave

2013-03-08 Thread Memford
Lem wrote: Absolute icecast.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteradio.co.uk/arflac.ogg 80s icecast.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteradio.co.uk/a8flac.ogg 60s icecast.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteradio.co.uk/a6flac.ogg 70s icecast.timlradio.co.uk/absoluteradio.co.uk/a7flac.ogg 90s

Re: [slim] lossless internet radio streaming in FLAC!

2013-03-07 Thread Memford
JJZolx wrote: Adrian, is the patch working for you? I've just applied it to 7.7.2 and can't play the 'blankety-blank-blank (link removed to avoid error-on-posting message)' URL. Trying to play it from the web UI on the Touch I see Connecting.../Buffering xx% displayed in the NP screen. In

[slim] Why I Take My Leave

2013-03-07 Thread Memford
After spending much time finding and testing the URLs to Absolute Radio UK's FLAC radio streams, only to (spend even more time and) post them for the incompetent moderator to lose, I'll take my knowledge elsewhere. Anyone with the gumption to do so can search and find the fruits of my work, but