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[dataprep]

You can stream shoutcast stations,
This is what i do but others might do it different, visit shoutcast.com listen to the stations on my pc find a good one, the i right click and save target, which saves the .pls
then get the lastest version of xmbp and make a folder on my pc stick all the .pls files i've saved into it.
tell xbmp to look in the folder and click the station (.pls) and the station plays. I use relax to stream.

But maybe my explaination is a bit crappy, but this is just my way, everyone has different ways.

[feflicker]

Streaming audio sux. Who can listed to music at that low of a bitrate/sample rate!  

Anyone who can listen to that stuff is an "elevator music" fan, meaning music is merely *background noise* in their life. If you really enjoy music, you can't handle the lack of quality delivered through streaming media...

I need 44.1 and 192 baby, minimum!  

To each his own I guess  

[JayDee]

128Kb/s 44.1 streams will give you RADIO quality.

So if YOU dont listen to ANYTHING under 192Kb/s it is YOUR problem and dont belong here!

There are radio stations broadcasting in 192Kb/s and there are stations sending in 64Kb/s so....

Everkb -  you can find lots of good stations on shoutcast

Hope you enjoy it

[mingwingming]

unfortunately for me  only 56k  so yes shite quality for now,  but i tried it round a friends house on ADSL in terms of choice I thought it was good and quality sounded just fine.. as a feature to the Xbox its very nice,  Once i get me broadband I would most certainly use it.

opinion
mingwing

edit.  just beat me jaydee

[billyciam]

yeah i think shoutcast has great quality

[feflicker]

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So if YOU dont listen to ANYTHING under 192Kb/s it is YOUR problem and dont belong here!

Hmm... Missed my entire point.  

128 is listenable, especially if it is variable bitrate so the extreme highs and extreme lows are picked up... Radio quality is not really that good. Can't anyone tell the difference between a low bitrate MP3 and radio, or the actual CD!

Oh well, I am a musician, and a have recorded in several studios and done engineering work, so I guess I am just biased. I like the music to sound the way it was recorded, and my ears easily pick up all the noise that compression brings into the picture, and it makes me cower in agony  

This is why the "Super Audio CD" is being developed. A standard CD is only at 44.1 sample rate, and a lot of people out here want a minimum of 48, so that what you hear is what was actually recorded by the artist. A perfect digital copy!

I encode all my MP3 at a minimum of 192, and I don't resample. Their is a HUGE difference in sound quality between 128 and 192, for a nominal filesize difference. Trust me, it is worth it!

Final Thought: If you can't tell the difference, then it doesn't matter. I just still don't understand how people can handle the quality drop...

Sorry for crashing this post and getting way off topic. This is just a sensitive issue to me  

[flattspott]

The easiest way to do this...
If you already know how how to use relax that is. Go to Shoutcast.com and find a station you want. Then right click the tune in button and save target as. Now save the pls file to a folder, say SHOUTCAST. Then just add this to you relax shares. Now edit the XBMP config xml.

When I go to music in XBMP I have these options

Music on Xbox HD
Xbox Soundtracks
Playlist
Music on PC HD
Music on PC CDROM
Music on PC CDRW
Shoutcast Radio

[feflicker]

flattspot, thanks for the info. I am thinking about setting this up for news/sports broadcasts...  

[flattspott]

Glad I could be of help. Unfortunatly I'm on dialup so it isn't all that great for me. Nonetheless it's still cool to have.

[mingwingming]

feflicker, I too am a musician and have my own studio setup here, and I say again,  It sounds just fine  ,  he just wanted to know if their was away to listen to Broadband radio.  Not if it was gonna sound like it was going through a Neve Desk and Thousands of pounds of AMS Outboard gear  its a damn Xbox for christ sake!!!  
Yes wouldnt we all love 48Khz,  but then you would say its no good we need 96khz  and on and on it goes  you can either be a musician and create  music or a studio engineer and listen for problems,  I prefer to sit half way between both

trained musician - studio engineer
mingwing

Emu64 x 2,  Yamaha AN1x, Juno106 Mackie 1604 VLZ, Digitech Studio400, TB303,
SPL Vitalizer, Sony DAT, Running Cubase with only a 44.1khz sampling rate !! With shed loads of horny VST instruments..   Soundforge 6  and much more.

[feflicker]

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Emu64 x 2, Yamaha AN1x, Juno106 Mackie 1604 VLZ, Digitech Studio400, TB303, SPL Vitalizer, Sony DAT, Running Cubase with only a 44.1khz sampling rate !! With shed loads of horny VST instruments.. Soundforge 6 and much more.

Nice rig!  

I just can't turn my ear "on and off". It either sounds good or bad to me... I just hate to see excessive compression ruin perfectly good music. Might as well tune into an AM station!  

[Squirrel_ESS_GEN]

Well, i had it working perfectly the 1st time, then i fubared it. Changing the names of the pls files have anything to do with mine not working?

[Squirrel_ESS_GEN]

Errr....all im getting is buffering in my relax window....no music play tthou

[Grimfull]

now, can u stream video channels? i heared winamp had a streaming pr0n channel...just a thought

[Squirrel_ESS_GEN]

Nm, got it fixed now, and listening to  Tupac - Never had a friend like me
= )


btw...tell mre more about this pron thing.... lol