Testing Server Transmitters

The word "server" has many meanings and applications these days, and for radio broadcasters they "serve" to transmit digital program streams to the internet. Servers are transmitters.

A recent development allows left-clicking on an audio file seen within a browser window for instant playback of whatever program is linked. (right-clicking will download the same file)

We've been posting more audio programs as part of this ALPB forum site and have noticed that some audio links jitter, jutter, stutter and flutter while others play smoothly. What's going on with that?

In today's test we are uploading three renditions of the same program at three different stream rates so we can observe the differences during playback.

More than likely it won't give us useful information as the variations in playback quality may be an aspect of the listener's particular computer and internet connection.

Blare OnAir Lite 270 48 kbps 44.1 kHz

Blare OnAir Lite 270 32 kbps 44.1 kHz

Blare OnAir Lite 270 24 kbps 22.05kHz

TEST RESULTS AT THIS LOCATION - - 1 Hour Later

For me all three streams garbled and would not stream smoothly.

If you have the chance to test them please let me know your results.

Thanks in advance.