[vorbis] Virgin Radio launches an Ogg stream

[Michael Smith]

> As an aside, I'd be interested if anyone has any views on the differences
> between darkice and ices as the encoder. We're currently using darkice,
> because I have found a few places where people say it is more stable, but
> I'd welcome views.

I don't know how they compare on features (I haven't used darkice), but ices 
doesn't have any stability issues I know of. I wouldn't consider that to be a 
reason to pick one over the other. 

>
> At the moment we are streaming two versions of our Virgin Radio Ogg
> service: * 96kbps 44KHz 16bit stereo
> * 32kbps 44KHz 16bit stereo
>
> I think that the 32kbps stream would sound better in mono, but I haven't
> worked out yet how to configure a single instance of the darkice encoder to
> send out one stereo stream and one mono stream. My plan so far has to be
> use the Virgin Radio Classic Rock encoder (once I have installed it) to
> play around with both darkice and ices a bit more (we were keen to get the
> VR stream up and running straight away), but if anyone has any knowledge on
> this mono/stereo issue they'd be willing to share I'd be grateful!

Well, ices can do this :-)
The configuration to do so might be non-obvious (or it might be obvious - it's 
hard to get a perspective on that sort of thing when you know it all 
inside-out), so feel free to ask if you have problems, and you want to try 
ices2 out.

Mike

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