Great album!!
What are you listening to?
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Rumours said that this LP from this psychedelic Band of Minnesota, USA only sold 1.000 copies when it came out. It's the only Album of this band. After that they disbanded. It seems i'm so lucky to have one copy of the album. 
P.S. It was later re-evaluated and reissued in the early 1980s
Rumours said that this LP from this psychedelic Band of Minnesota, USA only sold 1.000 copies when it came out. It's the only Album of this band. After that they disbanded. It seems i'm so lucky to have one copy of the album.
Mhhhhh to identify weak parts?Another proof of my sometimes weird musical taste
Not really important for the history of music, but there are a lot of sequences which can be used to identify weak parts of systems. So one of the recordings new stuff must pass.
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I will control. I hope that you are telling pure truth
Ok the screenshot will tell you I’m not listening via any WiiM device. My Mini is in my office HiFi setup but I am in my living room listening with a pair of headphones while SWMBO is watching TV.
The player in question is a Raspberry Pi4 in a metal case that has WAF. I’m playing from LMS (as I do with the Mini). Output is via USB to an Audioquest Dragonfly and then into an Onkyo CD Receiver (No speakers attached) but using headphone out.
Screenshot is Material (latest LMS gui) on my iPhone.
♪ Playing Mornin' by Al Jarreau from Jarreau (1983) (Local • 853kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)
This a FLAC needledrop from my original Vinyl copy. Fabulous vocal Jazz.
The player in question is a Raspberry Pi4 in a metal case that has WAF. I’m playing from LMS (as I do with the Mini). Output is via USB to an Audioquest Dragonfly and then into an Onkyo CD Receiver (No speakers attached) but using headphone out.
Screenshot is Material (latest LMS gui) on my iPhone.
♪ Playing Mornin' by Al Jarreau from Jarreau (1983) (Local • 853kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)
This a FLAC needledrop from my original Vinyl copy. Fabulous vocal Jazz.
if possible.
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They don’t stream in 16/48, 6music is 320kbps in the UK. If you’re abroad, the bitrates as lower iirc.
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There are restrictions on the bitrate available to non UK users.
Even though this link is old, it states: “For overseas listeners, we're using 48kbps HE-AAC v2 format stereo streams (known by some as aacPlus) for all our stations, excepting BBC Radio 5 Live which is a 32kbps HE-AAC v1 mono stream. Just as the UK, these bitrates are the same for both live and on-demand radio.”
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Another exciting new sound for BBC Radio
From today the BBC iPlayer now uses Flash-based streams for live radio as well as on-demand radio. We've also taken this opportunity to greatly increase our audio quality: doubling the bitrates for most live streams...
This might in part be due to the fact that BBC radio is indirectly funded from the BBC licence fee paid by UK users (although there’s no radio licence fee as such) or from regulations in the BBC charter.
The WiiM app is probably using the international feeds so is constrained to a 48kbps bitrate (note that this isn’t anywhere near the 16/48 resolution you quote which is a bit depth of 16, and a sample rate of 48kHz, which is different from bitrate
)Ah the good ol' license fee. Makes sense.There are restrictions on the bitrate available to non UK users.
Even though this link is old, it states: “For overseas listeners, we're using 48kbps HE-AAC v2 format stereo streams (known by some as aacPlus) for all our stations, excepting BBC Radio 5 Live which is a 32kbps HE-AAC v1 mono stream. Just as the UK, these bitrates are the same for both live and on-demand radio.”
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Another exciting new sound for BBC Radio
From today the BBC iPlayer now uses Flash-based streams for live radio as well as on-demand radio. We've also taken this opportunity to greatly increase our audio quality: doubling the bitrates for most live streams...www.bbc.co.uk
This might in part be due to the fact that BBC radio is indirectly funded from the BBC licence fee paid by UK users (although there’s no radio licence fee as such) or from regulations in the BBC charter.
The WiiM app is probably using the international feeds so is constrained to a 48kbps bitrate (note that this isn’t anywhere near the 16/48 resolution you quote which is a bit depth of 16, and a sample rate of 48kHz, which is different from bitrate
I'm just playing around with the app to see what it can and can't do. I never thought to check if there was a restriction on stream if you're not in the UK.
Both my Mini and my external DAC are powered from my laptop so getting the UK stream shouldn't be too difficult.
I'm having fun playing around with some high(er) res / FLAC streams using the applets inside the Wiim app. I've not found if it's possible to rename anything I add to pre-sets though, is that possible?
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Not once it’s been added to presets, but you can edit the name under Open Network Stream from the overflow three dot menu, then add it to presets
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