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Radio 3 Freeview & Satellite recordings
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Richard L has kindly sent me some recordings of the Proms recorded off R3 on
Freeview and digital satellite, which I've uploaded to here:
My sound card stopped working, so I've burnt them onto a CD, but there seems
to be a problem with Winamp's Disk Writer plug-in or with the CD burning
process, because the sound quality is very poor, and I noticed that there
was a problem with another CD I burnt, so I won't be able to comment until I
get a sound card tomorrow.
If anyone's got any comments though, fire away.
(I'm just uploading 2 AC3 files in case you look for the files straight
after I've sent this post)
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where do the ac3 files come from ? PResumably not via satellite or
freeview ?
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They're the audio from the BBC HD TV stream.
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I can't get any of them - all are either cannot be found or cannot be
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I get that on my WinXP Home system with the .ac3 files when I
right-click and try to 'Save target as'. With the .mp2 files, the
computer is happy to download them (though I didn't go ahead with the
download), but it changes the .mp2 to .mpeg.
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Same here with "save as". mp2 comes as mpeg (works fine renamed). ac3
"not found".
As for audio quality - I think the Freeview version is inferior by
quite a large margin. Having something to compare it with shows just
how bad the (re-)encoding is. I need to put a dish up!
It's a pity the DSat version is cut shorter at the end - I would have
been interested to hear the announcer talking over the applause.
Cheers,
David.
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Hum !
What the device seems to do is ident what IT hears not what the person
hears. I have the radio on while reading the newspaper at breakfast brain
does 95% reading and about 3% radio 2% "noise" but the device would say 100%
radio. If I used headphones??
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This is a criticism of most audience measurement systems. The BARB
definition of "viewing" is that a panellist has declared their presence
in a room with the TV set switched on and tuned to a channel. A few
years ago someone from one of the (then) BARB contractors told me that
their QA procedures would occasionally pick up the fact that a perfectly
valid (according to the above definition) "viewer" on the BARB panel had
died.
For TV measurement the potential advantages of metering the people
rather than TV sets are that you can pick up out of home viewing (e.g.
sports in pubs/clubs), and avoid errors introduced by the need for
panellists to declare their presence in the room.
David A Stocks
opinions are mine, not my employers.
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Their key phrase is "versatile audience measurement system that can track
consumer exposure" it then goes on to say "determine what consumers listen
to" which is not the same thing at all. It is also miles away from what the
consumer thinks or understands from what they "heard"
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André Coutanche
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displayed.
Cheers,
David.
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