[vorbis] Virgin Radio now on ices2 - yp not working though

[David Jones]

This afternoon I've transferred our Ogg Vorbis Icecast2 streams from darkice
to the ices2 encoder. Apologies if you were trying to listen; I had to stop
and start the streams a few times. They should be stable now as I'm off down
the pub now! As a reminder, the URL for the streams is at
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/listen/ogg.html.

Ices2 takes slightly different parameters to the darkice encoder, so I'd be
grateful for any feedback on whether the streams sound better or worse. The
main change I've made is that our lower bandwidth '32kbps' stream is now
broadcasting in mono, which should sound nicer than 32kbps stereo.

Also, does anyone know if I should be able to get our streams to appear in
the YP directories? http://www.oddsock.org/icecast2yp/test/FAQ suggests that
I can't, but then some of the messages in the list archive imply that it
should work. Anyone have this working?

For the more technical among you, these are the audio bits from our ices
configuration file. Any suggestions on tweaks would be gratefully received:

For vr96.ogg:

<encode>
        <quality>2</quality>
        <minimum-bitrate>88000</minimum-bitrate>
        <maximum-bitrate>96000</maximum-bitrate>
        <samplerate>44100</samplerate>
        <channels>2</channels>
</encode>
<downmix>0</downmix>
<resample>
        <in-rate>44100</in-rate>
        <out-rate>44100</out-rate>
</resample>

For vr32.ogg:

<encode>
        <quality>0</quality>
        <minimum-bitrate>28000</minimum-bitrate>
        <maximum-bitrate>32000</maximum-bitrate>
        <samplerate>22050</samplerate>
        <channels>1</channels>
</encode>
<downmix>1</downmix>
<resample>
        <in-rate>44100</in-rate>
        <out-rate>22050</out-rate>
</resample>

Thanks

David

David Jones
Head of IT, Virgin Radio
t +44 20 7432 3346 f +44 20 7432 3456
www.smg.plc.uk * www.virginradio.co.uk
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