23 Jan 2005
Low-bandwidth Net Radio

Fascinating and very clever! This could really give a boost to all kinds of audio over IP technologies, not just Net radio.

Slate has an article about Internet radio stations that use the aacPlus codec from XM satellite radio instead of MP3. Some of the ones they link to sound pretty good even at 24 kbps.

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