[icecast] poor quality mp3

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Cédric Mallet wrote:

> I noticed a strange bug with poor quality mp3 (< 64 kbps). When a good
> mp3 ( > 128) is streamed after a poor one, the client is disconnected
> from the channel at the end of the poor one. It seems to happen with any client.
>
> Is it normal ?

<p>Yes it is.  This is a short-coming of the MP3 format.  In practice, if the
sampling rate and channels are the same, you might be OK, not sure.
Certainly, different sampling rates/channels will kil clients.
Note that Vorbis is designed to cope with this nicely by letting you chain
ogg streams together.

Geoff.

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