[BC] Another Shoe drops

[padrino]

Tom, 

The response doesn't offer much info, one way or the other. Looking at
their websight didn't help either. Until I can gather more info, I don't
have much to say....yet! :)

-Frank Foti

Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net> writes:
>	In the never ending quest for dumbing artist product to the public, 
>many radio stations have been notified that new songs will no longer be 
>delivered by mail, but transmitted to them, "In CD Quaility".
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>	To wit:
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>	We have been notified that most of our songs will be coming to us from 
>DSNY/MPE. I sent them an email asking about audio quality:
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> >> The question:
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> > Hello,
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> >     There is a group of engineers for the broadcast industry who are 
>concerned as to what happens to the artist's product when it is sent 
>through the MPE system.
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> >     What type of compression algorithm is used? Here at Cornerstone 
>University Radio, all products are transfered digitally from the CD's at 
>44.1 sampling and a full 16 bit audio path.
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> >     Could you please let me know what size file a typical 3 minute 
>song is?
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> >     Thank you
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> >     Tom Bosscher
> >     Director of Broadcast Services and Technology
> >     Cornerstone University Radio
> >     Cornerstone University
> >     Grand Rapids, MI
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> >. The answer:
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>The files are transmitted using Og Vorbis, but at an extremely high 
>bitrate (starting at 750 and scaling up as high as needed).  The result 
>is effectively lossless compression (it is lossy, but the losses are out 
>of the range of hearing).
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>Steve Vestergaard
>CEO Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.
>604 609 7736 x222
>http://www.dsny.com
>Symbol: DSNY
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>     So the answer is soooo ambiguous, other than it is indeed a 
>compressed file. It's now official. Even the record labels don't care 
>about quality.
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>         tom bosscher
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