Well, where do I start? Last weekend i upped my package from Mixlr and was bitterly disappointed with the 128k stream quality.
I wrote to their support team about paying extra for a higher quality stream. Guess what? Not only did they increase it to 192k, they did it at no extra cost permonth(about $8 Australian). So huge ups to mixLR support!
Now, here’s the thing, the speed is increased, quality is more acceptable, and I am very happy with that but this act alone opens up other potential problems.. Not everyone has high speed broadband and the higher(in speed/quality) one goes the demographic starts to become reduced. The other downside is streaming a higher bit rate means an average, say, 4-5 hour session will eat (exaggerated rounding) about 1/2 a gig of a listeners data plan… The data side doesn’t bother me as I have 150 gigs a month to play with, but others are not so fortunate…..
Yes there is a question in all of this! Is 192 k too much to ask of listeners, or should I be strict on the quality of the stream I am broadcasting?
