Comments on: A trawl around the web, August 1st to August 31st http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/08/31/a-trawl-around-the-web-august-1st-to-august-31st/ Radio, broadcasting, websites, and beer. Possibly. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:23:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Daniel Nebdal http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/08/31/a-trawl-around-the-web-august-1st-to-august-31st/comment-page-1/#comment-34400 Daniel Nebdal Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:29:21 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=742#comment-34400 I'm personally fond of ogg/vorbis streams. They're slightly better per-kbit/s than MP3, and there's software to play it available for more or less everything. Now, it does have a market share problem, so I don't expect the BBC to start streaming everything in ogg/vorbis, but if you could find the room for a set of MP3 streams I can throw into a winamp playlist or a commandline app, I'd be grateful. For one thing, it'd mean I could listen to you on this FreeBSD workstation - flash and realplayer aren't the most convenient formats here. On a side note, NRK (the norwegian national broadcaster) also stream their radio channels in ogg/vorbis and MP3. I’m personally fond of ogg/vorbis streams. They’re slightly better per-kbit/s than MP3, and there’s software to play it available for more or less everything.

Now, it does have a market share problem, so I don’t expect the BBC to start streaming everything in ogg/vorbis, but if you could find the room for a set of MP3 streams I can throw into a winamp playlist or a commandline app, I’d be grateful. For one thing, it’d mean I could listen to you on this FreeBSD workstation - flash and realplayer aren’t the most convenient formats here.

On a side note, NRK (the norwegian national broadcaster) also stream their radio channels in ogg/vorbis and MP3.

]]> By: Chris Stevens http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/08/31/a-trawl-around-the-web-august-1st-to-august-31st/comment-page-1/#comment-34126 Chris Stevens Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:35:23 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=742#comment-34126 NPR member stations give a whole range of URLs out. While the morning and afternoon drive shows may stick to NPR.org, individual shows have a whole range of different URLs, primarily because there are two main commercial suppliers of programming to the networks, not to mention local shows. Here's a cross-selection of URLs that I've heard in the last few days on my local NPR station... www.marketplace.org www.kera.org/radio www.cartalk.com www.wamu.org/dr As an aside, they're probably the station I listen to most on Dallas. Their morning and afternoon sequences are fantastic, with the network/local balance handled really nicely. I can also highly recommend the Marketplace podcast. Chris (who only got into podcasts when James recommended Zebramix from Oui FM. Whatever happened to that?) NPR member stations give a whole range of URLs out. While the morning and afternoon drive shows may stick to NPR.org, individual shows have a whole range of different URLs, primarily because there are two main commercial suppliers of programming to the networks, not to mention local shows.

Here’s a cross-selection of URLs that I’ve heard in the last few days on my local NPR station…

www.marketplace.org
www.kera.org/radio
www.cartalk.com
www.wamu.org/dr

As an aside, they’re probably the station I listen to most on Dallas. Their morning and afternoon sequences are fantastic, with the network/local balance handled really nicely. I can also highly recommend the Marketplace podcast.

Chris (who only got into podcasts when James recommended Zebramix from Oui FM. Whatever happened to that?)

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