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does listening to the internet radio use the same amount of cap as downloading music?
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It uses a lot.. I remember streaming 5fm for an hour I think, took about 300 megs..
 
Internet radio should be about 32kbps?
A normal 4min 4MB MP3 is about 128kbps...

So 4min should be about 1MB?
15Mb/hour
 
Most days because of the appalling standard of our SA radio, I download (and record to MP3) streaming audio free of charge from one of the several BBC radio sites (no registration required, e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_four). They give you a choice of low or high bandwidth versions, and low is just fine for talk and not too bad for music.

At the lower bandwidth setting, a half-hour programme uses 9 - 10 MB of my (mobile) data; on the higher setting it rises to about 14 MB.

Downloading the same programme from their Podcasts site, i.e. ready-made and no need to record, comes in at about 15 -20 MB (but not all the excellent BBC programmes are available as podcasts, whereas there is almost nothing from any of their several radio networks which cannot be accessed as streaming audio, even the shipping report if you're feeling particularly offbeat!).
 
We run an internet radio station. We stream in 2 bitrates, one at 16kbps mono ( for dial-up users) and one at 40 kbps stereo ( for broadband users). To listen to the 16 kbps mono channel, wil eat up about 5 to 6 MB per hour, and the 60 kbps one about 14 to 15 MB per hour. Hope this helps?

I must ad, that in SA, the broadband here is so up to @#$%, that most of our SA-listeners are using the 16 kbps stream, because it works out cheaper to them, and the so called shaped bandwidth sometimes cannot even stream the 40 kbps stream. It is a disgrace. Currently, our data per month running the station comes to about 300 gigs international bandwidth.
 
www.nederland.fm

256 Kilobits per second
or 30KiloBytes per second

1 megabyte = 35 seconds of streaming

1 Hour = 3600 Seconds
1 Hour = 100 MegaBytes +-
 
Kraai2009 said:
We run an internet radio station. We stream in 2 bitrates, one at 16kbps mono ( for dial-up users) and one at 40 kbps stereo ( for broadband users). To listen to the 16 kbps mono channel, wil eat up about 5 to 6 MB per hour, and the 60 kbps one about 14 to 15 MB per hour. Hope this helps?

I must ad, that in SA, the broadband here is so up to @#$%, that most of our SA-listeners are using the 16 kbps stream, because it works out cheaper to them, and the so called shaped bandwidth sometimes cannot even stream the 40 kbps stream. It is a disgrace. Currently, our data per month running the station comes to about 300 gigs international bandwidth.
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What is the link to the broadcast? Talk station?
 
Just go to shoutcast.com

So many stations. Ive noticed that most are 128k stream which equals to about 60mb 1 hour of music. Ohh and its free and legal cause they pay for a broadcasting licence
 
i have a toolbar application that allows me to listen to some american internet radio stations and some other stuff but i have always wondered if its eating my gigs or not.
 
cavedog said:
Ohh and its free and legal cause they pay for a broadcasting licence
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shoutcast does not pay or provide any broadcasting licence fee. It stays the responsibility of the caster, not the service provider. We are using shoutcast as well for our broadcasts.
 
concentricpuddle said:
So, uhm...are there any local audio streaming sites?
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Local is too expensive. We are paying something like R 2.00 per GB bandwidth hosting our broadcast servers in America. To host the same in SA, is just too much. Maybe one day, when SA catch up with the rest of the world. I am not sure if RSG streaming to SA servers? At least they have the commercial budget to do it.
 
Kraai2009 said:
Local is too expensive. We are paying something like R 2.00 per GB bandwidth hosting our broadcast servers in America. To host the same in SA, is just too much. Maybe one day, when SA catch up with the rest of the world. I am not sure if RSG streaming to SA servers? At least they have the commercial budget to do it.
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I know it's been said many times before, but let me say it once more. F-U TELKOM!

RSG (weirdest thing, searching for Radio Sonder Grense in Bing is ineffectual but with just RSG it works.) is local, but that music...well lets just say it ain't to my taste.;)

spiff said:
try this !

http://www.springbokradio.com/
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Not local dude.
 
How to i record live audio streaming as MP3? I tried using the Free Sound Recorder which picks up sound from sound card. But the stereo sound is not there if i burn the MP3 to a audio to listen to me car, you don't get that beat, its like playing in a tin
 
sonxEr77 said:
How to i record live audio streaming as MP3? I tried using the Free Sound Recorder which picks up sound from sound card. But the stereo sound is not there if i burn the MP3 to a audio to listen to me car, you don't get that beat, its like playing in a tin
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I record streaming audio daily from the BBC Radio 4 streaming audio website, using the excellent and free audio utility Audacity. Each half-hour programme uses up about 15 MB of my data bundle (using the lower quality setting the BBC offers as an option, perfectly good for speech programmes) -- and then I save it as an MP3 at 64Kbps. That should run in your car (burned to a disc) or in your MP3 player like a charm! If you are using Vista or Windows 7 you may have to tweak your audio settings to record off 'Stereo Mix', and you may find that your audio output settings affect the recording because this means that you are in essence recording the same signal which drives your speakers.
 
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