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How radio kicked ass streaming?

• exDM69 11y ago
  Analog transmission artifacts make sound quality worse. Digital transmission errors make playback choppy and intermittent, which completely ruins the rhythm and flow of the music.
  • lewisl9029 11y ago
    Isn't that what buffering is for? Surely the average data plan could handle ~300kbps streaming with enough of an overhead such that buffering would make interruptions extremely unlikely? I'd take that over having noticeably degraded sound quality almost all the time with radio.
  • Oletros 11y ago
    This is what buffering is for
  • CamperBob2 11y ago
    Satellite radio does sound quite a bit worse than any recorded medium you can buy today. The difference isn't due to errors, but overcompression. That's not a problem with 128K or better AAC streams, or 192K MP3 streams for that matter, yet Young apparently isn't objecting to having his songs played on SiriusXM. So: yeah, it's safe to say it's all about marketing his snake oil.