New to streaming, please help.

[Minstrel SE]

I still havent really been sold on direct streaming. I have briefly tried the Spotify site to sample some Throbbing Gristle of all things ....no jokes please.

If I am on a limited broadband allowance surely streaming would eat into that at a rate of knots.

I like to switch radio 3 or 6 on and listen all day....thats my streaming over the airwaves.

I have hundreds of cds and vinyl records that I barely have time to listen to. Where does streaming fit into all this and what do you all listen to please? Any adverts would drive me barmy.

[struth]

no ads on premium service but it will eat into broadband if on an allowance. you can download and play offline if out on mobile.

[Gazjam]

Radio Paradise is a top notch internet radio station.
Great selection of music and no ads.

Highly recommended...discovered so much great music from here.
https://www.radioparadise.com/rp3.ph...ten&file=index

[struth]

RP have been doing flac streams too

[Edward]

RP have been doing flac streams too

Woo this is exciting Grant. I originally found the RP 320 AAC stream via the Naim forums before RP officially published their 320 AAC stream.

Having a quick read of the RP and Naim forums it seems that the RP flac implementation is still a bit 'beta'. Let's hope RP can achieve full flac streaming.

How are you listening to RP Flac? I mainly use JRiver but only so far up to 320AAC. But I just see that on my Phone Flac is now possible.

[struth]

I' not at moment but seems they are using android and then sending it on to their hifi. Ive not got round to trying it but tbh their 320 stuff is implemated so well its maybe going to be very good. supposed to be using the same system the bbc used.

[Edward]

I' not at moment but seems they are using android and then sending it on to their hifi. Ive not got round to trying it but tbh their 320 stuff is implemated so well its maybe going to be very good. supposed to be using the same system the bbc used.

Cheers

Since I posted above I enabled Flac on my Android Teevee RP app. So my path is Internet > TeeVee > RP App > Toslink > Dac. Sounding good. Neat thing about the TeeVee RP app are the high res pics that go with the high res music stream.

[r100]

Dennis,

as a development economist who has spent much of my professional life living and working in the developing world I have some sympathy for your views. It is certainly sobering to come back to the UK from a country where the vast majority of people live on less than a dollar a day, to find such waste and excess. Yes, by their very nature, free markets result in multiple competing products which differ very little from each other in substance, and rely on marketing to stand out to the consumer. Production costs could certainly be reduced if the number of competing products were reduced and marketing spend eliminated. However, as a committed socialist I have to concede that attempts to replace market mechanism have by and large proved disastrous: one only needs to look at the stupendous failures of soviet era command economies. That is not to say that markets should be completely unregulated. As much as I might find the hyper expensive hifi products that have emerged in recent years distasteful, markets do encourage innovation and technical progress.

Geoff

WTF has this got to do with the subject ?

[Sherwood]

WTF has this got to do with the subject ?

I am happy to explain it for you. The "point" was a response to Dennis' discomfort with the large number of barely differentiated products and wasteful duplication that result from free markets. My view is that the negative aspects of markets are outweighed by the innovation that comes with competition. The result is that one can acquire a digital source for the price of a couple of cd's that wipes the floor with many elite cd players of the last 20 years.

Geoff

[Yomanze]

@r100: This is AoS, ‘the subject’ is often a very broad thing indeed, which is all part of this forum’s charm.